Heaven Is For Real was an immediate sales phenomenon. Told by the father, but often in Colton’s own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.” Sales & Lasting Impact He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how ‘reaaally big’ God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit ‘shoots down power’ from heaven to help us. “Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each.

This book followed a predictable pattern and told Colton’s story in a consistent format: Colton would reveal a detail of his time in heaven, his father would recoil with the shock and significance of what Colton told him, and the information would help his father form a clearer picture of heaven. The book released in late 2010 and by then heaven tourism was an established genre. He wrote the book as a means of helping people gain confidence that God is real and that heaven is real. Several years later his father enlisted the help of author Lynn Vincent and together they compiled them as the basis of the book Heaven Is For Real. He learned that the righteous, including his father, would fight in a coming last battle.” All of these details and many more came to light in the months following his surgery. Everyone in heaven had wings Colton’s were smaller than most. When doctors at one hospital were unable to diagnose him, his parents raced him to a new hospital where he was rushed into surgery, the doctor warning ominously that their son was in grave danger.Ĭolton survived his surgery and emerged from it telling a strange story: While his body lay on the operating table, he had been to heaven and met Jesus who, in the words of one reviewer, “assigned him homework he also encountered angels, a rainbow-hued horse, John the Baptist, God the father, the Holy Spirit, a sister his mother miscarried (unknown to Colton) before he was born and his great-grandfather, Pop, as a young man.

Doctors did not yet know it, but his appendix had burst and his life was in grave danger. In March 2003, young Colton Burpo was in serious distress. Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron Heaven Is For Real by Todd Burpo

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