All parents dread dealing with health emergencies with their children, so 4-year-old Colton Burpo's father and mother were understandably worried when he had to have an emergency appendectomy. In Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back, listen to the true story of what Colton saw during his surgery.
When Colton survived the surgery, his parents were relieved and glad to move on. But slowly, Colton started to reveal things he saw during his procedure that made them take notice. Colton claimed he left his body during the appendectomy, and his parents started believing him when he was able to tell them things that they were doing at that time in another part of the hospital that he had no way of knowing.
Additionally, Colton made claims about visiting heaven. His father Todd Burpo dismissed them as anesthesia-laced dreams, until the pastor in him started recognizing biblical facts that had Colton had not learned in any preschool Sunday School class.
Finally, Colton starts to tell stories of people he met in heaven, and his parents are astounded to realize that these are descriptions of family members that Colton has never met because they died before he was born.
Believers and skeptics alike will find this to be an intriguing and enjoyable audiobook.
Author Todd Burpo is the pastor of a church in Nebraska, and also spends his time as a volunteer firefighter. He is father of Colton, who is now 13-years-old and three other children. Lynn Vincent was a collaborating writer on this project, and the San Diego resident most recently worked on Sarah Palin's Rogue. She started off writing for World Magazine after serving in the Navy.
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Todd Burpo, pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan Church in Imperial, Nebraska, is the author of Heaven Is for Real, Heaven Is for Real for Kids, and Heaven Is for Real for Little Ones. He is also the co-author, along with his wife Sonja, of Heaven Changes Everything. He can be found working shoulder-to-shoulder with the Imperial Volunteer Fire Department as a firefighter. He is also the chaplain for the Nebraska State Volunteer Firefighter’s Association. He has operated an overhead door company, coached wrestling, and served on the local school board. He was ordained in 1994.
Lynn Vincent, a US Navy veteran, is a New York Times bestselling author and coauthor of eleven nonfiction books with more than sixteen million copies in print. A veteran journalist and author of more than 1,000 articles, her investigative pieces have been cited before Congress and the US Supreme Court.
Stu Gray has spent most of his life communicating, speaking, and entertaining people. He hosts The Stupendous Marriage Show with his wife, Lisa, is a youth pastor at his church, and is a voiceover artist and audiobook narrator. His heart is for married couples—to encourage, challenge, and inspire them to have the best relationships possible, and for men who are looking to be godly men of character.