Heaven is for Real : A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
“When I was a little boy,” I said, “I had a lot of fun with Pop.” I didn’t tell Colton why I spent so much time with Pop and my ...
ambulance at the hospital, doctors pronounced him dead. He was only sixty-one years old. I remember seeing my mother in anguish ...
Then Mom asked Colton an odd question. “Did Jesus say anything about your dad becoming a pastor?” Just as I was wondering privat ...
SEVENTEEN TWO SISTERS As the green days of summer gave way to a fiery fall, we talked with Colton about heaven every now and the ...
“No.” Colton clipped off the word adamantly. “I have two sisters. You had a baby die in your tummy, didn’t you?” At that moment, ...
Sonja’s dark hair. As I watched, a blend of pain and joy played across my wife’s face. Cassie and Colton have my blond hair. She ...
Even though the Bible is largely silent on this point, we had accepted it on faith. But now, we had an eyewitness: a daughter we ...
EIGHTEEN THE THRONE ROOM OF GOD One night near Christmas 2003, I followed Colton into his room at bedtime. According to our usua ...
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husb ...
right side. The Hebrews passage flashed into my mind: “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who ...
“I was sitting by God the Holy Spirit because I was praying for you. You needed the Holy Spirit, so I prayed for you.” This took ...
I smoothed Colton’s blanket across his chest and tucked him in snug the way he liked—and for the first time since he started tal ...
NINETEEN JESUS REALLY LOVES THE CHILDREN For months in late 2003 and early 2004, there was a certain set of things that Colton s ...
ministry in our church. Sonja had always been torn between singing on the worship team during Sunday morning services and going ...
about; grown-up theologians want to be precise. But if a kid saw all those colors, he might sum them up in one simple word: rain ...
Father to send one. Faith like a child. Maybe, Sonja and I thought, we had a lot to learn from our son. ...
TWENTY DYING AND LIVING The spring of 2004 marked a year since Colton’s hospital stay. That year, Good Friday fell in April, and ...
“Well, Jesus told me he died on the cross so we could go see his Dad.” In my mind’s eye, I saw Jesus, with Colton on his lap, br ...
One day in late April, Colton and I had stopped at the Sweden Creme for a snack. The Sweden Creme is the kind of family-owned dr ...
TWENTY-ONE THE FIRST PERSON YOU'LL SEE Most of that summer passed without any new revelations from Colton, though I’m sure we pl ...
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