Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You

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Burke shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of near-death survivors--including doctors, college professors, bank presidents, people of all ages and cultures, and even blind people--point to the exhilarating picture of Heaven promised in the Bible. The descriptions of Heaven made me eager to see it in person, and the NDE stories strengthened the impression I received from my husband's "visit" that Heaven is a place of incredible joy. I knew it would be a surprise if she made it through the summer and I instantly thought of this book. What I mean by that is that this book starts from the assumption (I say this in the most generous of terms) that the Bible is 100% accurate in everything that it says.

Both Apple and Google state that they ensure that only users who have actually downloaded the app can submit a review. The Catholic priests I knew could never answer my questions in a satisfactory way, so I wrote them all off as hypocrites at the age of 12.g., doctors), those from other faiths, those with disabilities here who have no disabilities in heaven, and those who had negative experiences after dying. The content is designed to provoke discussion and exploration around life after death, and how Jesus wants a relationship with every person. I did not read the last chapter completely because it seemed the author was doing a lot of speculating. Most of the doctors found out that they had to be telling truth about seeing themselves dead because they gave every detail about what got in their charts.

Preparation; fast track or deep training with those who are going to run it, with all the training resources from the Log in section. If you’re Christian, there might be dozens of angels playing trumpets and massive crowds singing church songs for all eternity. In Imagine Heaven, he compares more than one hundred gripping stories of near-death experiences (NDEs) to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of Heaven: Will I be myself? The final half of the book moved at a fast pace, and I learned a lot about Heaven as Burke used NDEs to illustrate major points in his book.John Burke is the pastor there and he is taking 5 Sunday services to cover the content in this book. What I read in this book is causing me to think differently and pray harder, lest anyone I love might spend eternity in a place like what they described! After studying 1,300 NDEs, he determined that over 75 percent go through an out-of-body experience, 74 percent get heightened senses, 76 percent feel extremely pleasant emotions, and 64 percent involve meeting a mystical bright light. I recommend this to people of all faiths- it’s not written from a strictly western world perspective.

I know this is not a normal review but I hope I have created enough interest through my own experience that maybe someone will need the same kind of comfort that it has given me and will get it with the reading of this book. As a Worship Leader, Imagine Heaven has given deeper meaning to the lyrics in my favorite worship songs and I find this book to be a wonderful resource in helping God’s people to seek after the heart of God in worship. It's so much more than a collection of NDEs; John Burke is an evangelist at heart and he filters the many, many testimonies through the lens of Scripture. The founder with his wife, Kathy, of Gateway Church in Austin, Texas, John is also the president of Gateway Leadership Initiative (GLI), a nonprofit organization. This book, however, is one that I feel should be read by everyone who has any interest at all in Heaven.As I age and witness many of my elders passing (sadly, even some from my generation), it gives me great comfort to know not that they are simply in a "better place", but insight into what that place is like.

And even if some turn out to be fraudulent (like the boy who made up a near-death story for attention), this does not concern me, because the stories I've chosen could be replaced with many others describing much of the same things. The focus of this book is definitely heaven, how studies of NDE (Near Death Experiences) support the scriptures. Burke is an engineer and a former skeptic and he seems to have written this book with the skeptic in mind, meaning he answered a lot of my (skeptical) questions without seeming defensive (the whole church experience there seems very skeptic friendly, actually). When one man's life was reviewed by God, he was surprised that none of his professional successes and awards were mentioned. Since I had read several books about near-death experiences (NDEs), I didn't expect to find much new in this book.

I could see her in perfect health, with all the music which she loved so much and envisioning what she was probably seeing and doing, gave me a peace about her death that I don't think I would have had if I hadn't read this book. Religious people are more afraid of death than non-religious people are, thus causing them to see all of this religious imagery when they have NDEs. He was almost eighty and very sick when he died, but in my vision he looked young (about thirty) and healthy. But if you don't even take that obvious piece of information into account, the argument is still faulty. One message was so clear from both sides of studying the NDE coin: “The Lord is definitely NOT slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but IS longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.