Heaven Is For Real - A True Story Of a 4-Year Old's Trip To Heaven And Back

Heaven Is For Real is an extraordinary book about what awaits us on the other side after death. This book will completely change the way people think of eternity and encourage those who believe in God. Heaven Is For Real is a true story about a 4 year old boy named Colton who vividly describes details from his visit to Heaven. The Burpo family was devastated when their little boy Colton nearly died during an appendix surgery. With the help of God, Colton came back to life. Few months later, this 4 year old boy began to tell his parents about some things that happened during the surgery, things he saw in heaven that he did not know on earth. This little boy could see what his mother and father were doing during the surgery. He even said some things about Heaven he was not even aware of. 

During his near-death experience, Jesus came down in the operation room and took Colton to heaven. Angels were singing all the way to heaven. Colton remembers everything that happened up there. He describes the encounter with his miscarried sister, God and his great grandfather. Todd Burpo, Colton's father and a pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan Church in Nebraska, was not sure whether to tell this story to the rest of the world or keep silent. Then, he thought that people deserve to know that Heaven is for real. He took notes of all the details his son has told him about and vividly described Colton’s trip to heaven and back. Heaven Is For Real book was published by Thomas Nelson Publishers in 2010. For short time Heaven Is For Real became the best selling Christian book. More than 1 million copies of Todd’s Heaven Is For Real book were sold worldwide.

The book Heaven Is For Real was written by Colton's father Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent (an author of the New York Times bestselling book Same Kind of Different As Me). Colton's parents didn't know whether to believe in his innocent story at first, but their doubt faded away when he shared some details that he could not know. According to Colton's experience heaven is a merry place where angels sing. Everyone is young and happy up there. Todd Burpo used Colton's own words to write the Heaven Is For Real book and allow people to take a glimpse into heaven and encourage those who wait and believe.  

Case For Christ Book Will Affirm Your Faith

Case For Christ is book written by Lee Strobel, an American Christian Author, journalist, apologist and pastor. Lee Strobel is author known for writing Christian inspired books, among which four of them won ECPA Christian Book Awards. He is a former atheist who inspired by his wife's conversion to Christianity, began to investigate the Biblical claims about Christ. As result of the conclusions of his investigation, Lee Strobel from an avowed atheist turned into a devoted Christian. Today, he is a member of the Willow Creek Association and speaks at churches.

Case for Christ is Strobel's award-winning book which portraits his converting from atheist to Christian. According to his sayings, Case for Christ follows his journey towards his complete conversion of atheist towards becoming Christian. This Christian book consists of interviews with 13 Christian evangelical scholars, who explain and defend their views about the evidences and the historical reliability of the New Testament.

The religious and historical scholars that Strobel interviews in his book are: J. P. Moreland, Craig Blomberg, Gary Habermas, Bruce Metzger, William Lane Craig, Edwin Yamauchi, Alexander Metherell, John McRay, Louis Lapides, Gregory Boyd, D.A. Carson, Ben Witherington III and Gary Collins.

The fact that all of the scholars that the author collaborated with in his investigation, are authorities in their fields of study that gives the book additional value and reliability. The authority of the scholars and their teaching is one of the main reason why the book Case for Christ turned to be successful project among the Christian communities in different countries worldwide.

Case for Christ is divides in three parts: Examining the Record, Analyzing Jesus and Researching the Resurrection. The main goal that the author wanted to achieve with this book is to point to a veracious proof about the veracity of the New Testament.

The evidences of Strobel's research and the statements of the thirteen renowned religious and historical scholars are documented not only in the book Case for Christ, but also in a documentary film that holds the same name. Both, the documentary film and the book that won the Gold Medallion Book Award for excellence became evidence of his findings and became one of the favourite Christian book/movie for affirming the faith for numerous Christians around the world, including the Christian community in Australia.