"HEAVEN IS FOR REAL" Review
EMBRACING Heaven is for Real! Heaven is for Real is about a child who almost dies from a burst appendix in 2003…or does he actually die? According to the doctors, his vital statistics proved he was alive during the three minutes he left his body and visited Jesus in heaven! Colton Burpo was almost four years old. He was too young to have been trained to lie about the many things he saw in heaven. Child-like innocence comprehended and recalled those three minutes as a longer experience, for during that time Colton sat on Jesus’ lap, played with his sister (who had died after a 2-month pregnancy but had grown into childhood in heaven), watched his father in the future fighting the devil with a sword, got to know his grandfather who now looked like a young father-figure, and saw his parents grieving for him in two other rooms in the hospital. He described Jesus’ hair, the garment he wore, the blue sash across his chest, and a face that was not captured by any past artist…his fath