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| The Ascension of Christ (PD) |
People often go to the movies in order to escape everyday life here on Earth. They are looking for something – anything – to ease their troubles, if only for a little while.
The recent book-turned-movie release, Heaven is For Real,
may provide a whole lot of value for the price of one theater ticket. If its
message is also for real, then throngs of theater patrons will be gifted with a preview of coming heavenly attractions.
Based on the story of four-year-old Colton Burpo’s near death experience (as told to his parents, Pastor Todd Burpo and wife Sonja), the movie affords viewers a glimpse of life in Heaven.
While there, Colton met with the sister he never knew he had (a miscarried sibling that he had never been told about), plus a great-grandfather who had died 30 years before. Bill Newcott of AARP also reports that Colton “heard angels singing and sat on the lap of Jesus.”
Was this just a PK’s (“preacher kid’s”) Sunday School-inspired fantasy?
The Burpos at first thought that it might be. However, when Colton began stating details about his deceased sister and great-grandfather that he couldn’t have possibly known otherwise, his parents began to sit up and take notice.
Todd Burpo explains that he resisted telling the world this story at first. However, people began knocking at his door (and it
shall be opened), saying: “God told me to tell you that you should write a book...”
Resources
http://blog.aarp.org/2014/04/16/meet-the-real-heaven-is-for-real-family/
Copyright April 16, 2014 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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