Dr Paul Allen

Cover of 23 Minutes In Hell Many people claim to have taken a field trip to Heaven: Heaven is for Realz 90 minutes in Heaven 23 minutes in Hell If you’re going to talk about the issue of heavenly field trips, I’d point out five things: 1. The Apostle Paul went to heaven and was forbidden to talk about what he saw (2 Cor. 12:1-4)…therefore revealing the various secrets of Heaven might not be as high on God ’s list of priorities as some people may want you to believe. 2. John the apostle went to somewhere beyond this world (I doubt that it was actually the intermediate Heaven) and both explicitly and implicitly states the purpose for the visit: - An explicit purpose is stated in Rev. 22:10-14 where, at the end of the revelation, Jesus calls people to “wash their robes so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates” (i.e. turn from their sins and walk in obedience to Christ ). - An implicit purpose is stated in Rev. 2-3 where Jesu

Heaven Is For Real Embarking on a short tour of the afterlife is all the rage, it seems. Don Piper got it started with  90 Minutes in Heaven , a really bad book that sold millions of copies.  Then there was  23 Minutes in Hell , another bestseller and another awful book. And now hot on their heels comes  Heaven Is For Real: A Little Boy ’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back .  It’s currently sitting atop the  New York Times  list of bestsellers and has over a half million copies in print. I wonder if I’m the only one who finds it a mite suspicious that now that these books are selling like proverbial hotcakes, more and more people find that God wants them to tell their stories of heaven and hell. Probably not. Heaven Is For Real  is written by pastor Todd Burpo and it tells the story of his son Colton who, at age 4, visited heaven. His visit came while he was on the operating table after suffering a burst appendix.  He told his parents his story several mont