Heaven Is for Real Book Review

We all have our own picture of what we imagine Heaven will look like. In this book, three-year-old, Colton Burpo tells the reader about his experience to Heaven and back. Through this family’s rough year, narrator Todd Burpo shares his family’s experience in hopes to encourage others to stay strong during tough times in their lives.

The Counsel of Heaven on Earth is a book written by Ian F. Jones on the topic of Christian counseling. Jones makes sure to let his readers know that this book is not meant to be a guide for Christian counseling; he in no way means to advocate a particular methodology, system, or school of thought. Instead, Jones is “[trying] to identify and explain the essential features of Biblical Christian counseling. No attempt has been made to engage in formal theory building or to develop systematically any counseling strategies or techniques. [His] intention is to show how the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, provides counselors with the blueprint for developing an effective counseling ministry”.

goes on to say that “some children may take on the behaviors and beliefs of their

After reading What’s Heaven by Maria Shriver, I got the opportunity to realize that talking about heaven can be difficult—especially when a child’s grandparent passes away or loved one passes away. For instance, as a child I always thought that human beings live forever; however, as I got older I began to realize that human beings cannot live forever. Nevertheless, as a nineteen-year-old college student, talking about death and heaven is tough and emotional for me; I cannot imagine myself mourning the death of a loved one—specifically, my mother, brothers, sister, aunts, cousins, friends, etc. My mother attempts to have conversations about death and heaven with me: “Kevin, my son, human beings get the chance to live a long-life here on earth;

Todd and his wife, MARY prepare their home by to deal with the ensuing social unrest as the watch all their neighbors abandon their farms. A few days later, the members of their survivalist group (MIKE and LISA NELSON, DAVE FONG, TOM KENNEDY) arrive. The only members of the group not to arrive were KEN and TERRY LAYTON and the rest of the group begin to fear they were dead. They each explain the mess they had to travel through to get there.

To value innocence is to value ignorance because the loss of innocence reveals the realities of society.

People before this time period thought that children were born evil, and that they automatically were just as evil as they were going to be when they were older when they were born. However, a change came about during this time, and people began to believe that children “Kn[e]w no evil”(Document 6) at birth, that they were only taught to be evil by the people or events around them. That since children have yet to experience bad things happening in their life, they know nothing of anything bad. Also another idea came up during this time that was basically if one teaches their children how to love, and how to love their parents, and if the parents show the children that they are worthy of that love, they will respect and obey their parents better. Sir George Savile in 1628 wrote “you must begin early to make your children love you so that they will obey you,”(Document 7) showing that if parents would show their children love, they would earn their obedience. Proving that if a parent loves their child, they earn their respect, and the theory that children are not born

A child should not have to do or experience adult things. In the book Night by ElieWiesel … Loss of innocence is shown when Elie is fighting for his father. Three ways that lossof innocence exists in today’s world is child soldiers, children working to provide for theirfamilies, and when a child is taken away from their family. Loss of innocence has many forms,one in which is shown in the book Night by Elie Wiesel and the real life situation of child 2soldiers etc. For example, Elie fights for his father, giving his food and water to him so he could live.

“Imagine there’s No Heaven” is a letter written by Salman Rushdie who is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He is an atheist and is known for his unflinching criticism of religion. Rushdie contributed this letter to a UN-sponsored anthology, addressed to the six-billionth human child who was expected to be born that year. He attempts to discuss and answer two fundamental questions of life. “How did we get here? And, now that we are here, how shall we live?” However he diverts from his central thesis and most of his text malign and smear all religions while the two questions go almost completely unanswered. His tone is demeaning, scornful and he presents religious beliefs as being ridiculous. He makes absolute statements without any

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

Eben Alexander is a neurosurgeon who believed for many years that when people explained their near death experiences it was just the hard wiring of the brain. Of course ,though, he had refined medical training. It wasn't until Alexander had caught a rare disease which caused him to fall into a coma and had a near death experience himself. Alexander talks about his journey towards the afterlife in his book which leads to many questions to everyone as to whether it really happened or if it was all just a hallucination. The paper talks about how he recounts what happened during his experience

We have now come to the fourth and final book of Mere Christianity. In this book, the author takes us to the place in our Christian growth where we begin to rely more heavily on the power of God and less on ourselves to become the being that God originally intended for us to be — a son of God. He begins with an explanation of the difference between “making” and “begetting”.

“Heaven is for Real” is the story of a family who almost lost a son, but ended up getting a glimpse of Heaven. The Burpo family was having a difficult year. Todd, the father of the family, is the main wage earner. He is a pastor, a volunteer firefighter and he installs garage doors as a side business to supplement the church income. In one year he battled illness and a severe leg break. After he recovered, he and his wife decided to turn an church conference into a fun, family vacation. Right before Todd 's wife, Sonja drives the kids to meet their father on vacation; their Four-year-old son Colton shows signs of illness. Fortunately, he quickly gets better so they are able to travel. Unfortunately, he becomes ill again on the trip, and things get worse quickly. After seeing several doctors, they determine that his appendix has ruptured and toxins are seeping through his system.

Do you believe that children know right from wrong the moment they start to lie? I do, because the moment they don’t listen to you or do something wrong knowing it is wrong but they do it anyway, that’s when they know right from wrong. Two to thirteen year olds are a prime example. But the biggest example is teenagers. Teenagers do crazy stuff that can get them in trouble just to be cool. That’s mostly why we have so many teens going to jail.

“Just as a physical embryo needs its mother’s womb in which to grow, so the spiritual embryo needs to be protected by an external environment that is warm with love and rich in nourishment. When this is finally realized, adults will change their attitude toward children, for the image of a child as a spiritual being becoming incarnate not only stirs us but imposes upon us new responsibility.”