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    Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
    Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
    Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
    Audiobook5 hours

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

    Written by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent

    Narrated by Stu Gray

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    About this audiobook

    #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.

    This audiobook recording of Heaven Is For Real includes:

    • Additional bonus content including Updates from father, Todd, and son, Colton, on recent events including the making-of-the-movie experience 
    • “From the Set” Q&A’s with the movie’s filmmakers and actors

    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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9780785216490
    Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
    Author

    Todd Burpo

    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.

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    • 1/5
      Family came out some time ago and said it was all fake.
    • 5/5
      Must read this book. Enlightenment at its finest. Read it
    • 5/5
      All I say is that I relate with the story. I found myself so interested in it that I didn't realize I was scrubbing my house for 2 hours! It is very engaging. I need to remember to write them a letter. I have the movie and now read the book.