Todd Burpo
Todd Burpo
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back is a 2010 New York Times best-selling Christian book written by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent. It was published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. The book documents the report of a near-death experience by Burpo's three-year-old son Colton. The book recounts the experiences that Colton relates from visits which he said he made to heaven during a near-death experience...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Author
Date of Birth5 August 1968
CountryUnited States of America
In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they’re ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn’t see coming.
What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.
Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times
It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.
It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.
The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.