a Heaven is for Real Deluxe Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

Todd Burpo

Thomas Nelson, Oct 31, 2011 - Religion - 192 pages

#1 New York Times bestseller with more than 11 million copies sold! When 4-year-old Colton Burpo emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven, his family doesn’t know what to believe. Heaven is For Real details what Colton saw and his family’s journey towards accepting their young son had visited the afterlife.

“Do you remember the hospital, Colton?” Sonja said. “Yes, mommy, I remember,” he said. “That’s where the angels sang to me.”

Colton told his parents he left his body during an emergency surgery–and proved that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital during his operation. He talked of visiting heaven and described events that happened before he was born and how he spoke with family members he’d never met. Colton also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, even though he had not yet learned to read.

With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton recounts his visit to heaven, describing:

• Meeting long-departed family members
• Jesus, the angels, how “really, really big” God is, and how much God loves us
• How Jesus called Todd, Colton’s father, to be a pastor
• The Battle of Armageddon

Retold by his father, but using Colton’s uniquely simple words, Heaven Is for Real offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as Colton says, “Nobody is old and nobody wears glasses.”

Heaven Is for Real will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe, like a child.

Praise for Heaven is for Real:

“A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who believe.” —Ron Hall, coauthor of Same Kind of Different as Me

Contents

• 1 The CrawlASeeUm: 1
• 2 Pastor Job: 7
• 3 Colton Toughs It Out: 14
• 4 Smoke Signals: 18
• 5 Shadow of Death: 25
• 6 North Platte: 28
• 7 I Think This Is It: 33
• 8 Raging at God: 37
• 9 Minutes Like Glaciers: 41
• 10 Prayers of a Most Unusual Kind: 47
• 11 Colton Burpo Collection Agent: 52
• 12 Eyewitness to Heaven: 60
• 13 Lights and Wings: 70
• 14 On Heaven Time: 77
• 15 Confession: 82
• 16 Pop: 85
• 17 Two Sisters: 93
• 18 The Throne Room of God: 98
• 19 Jesus Really Loves the Children: 105
• 20 Dying and Living: 110
• 21 The First Person Youll See: 115
• 22 No One Is Old in Heaven: 120
• 23 Power from Above: 124
• 24 Alis Moment: 127
• 25 Swords of the Angels: 131
• 26 The Coming War: 135
• 27 Someday Well See: 140
• Epilogue: 151
• Timeline of Events: 155
• Reflecting on Heaven: 159
• Notes: 165
• Acknowledgments: 167
• About the Burpos: 169
• About Lynn Vincent: 171
• Photos: 172

About the author

Todd Burpo is pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan and a volunteer fireman. He and his wife, Sonja, have four children: Colton is an active teenager; he has an older sister, Cassie; a younger brother, Colby; and a very special sister he met in heaven. Sonja Burpo is a busy mom and pastor's wife. A certified elementary teacher, Sonja is passionate about children's ministry and helping women work through the difficulty of miscarriage.

Lynn Vincent is the New York Times best-selling writer ofHeaven Is for Real and Same Kind of Different As Me. The author or coauthor of ten books, Lynn has sold 12 million copies since 2006. She worked for eleven years as a writer and editor at the national news biweekly WORLD magazine and is a U.S. Navy veteran.

Bibliographic information

• Title: a Heaven is for Real Deluxe Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
• Author: Todd Burpo
• Contributor: Lynn Vincent
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson, 2011
• ISBN: 0849949203, 9780849949203
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Living / Death, Grief, Bereavement; Religion / Christian Theology / Eschatology; Self-Help / Death, Grief, Bereavement