All of us long to know what life after death will be like. Bestselling author John Burke is no exception. In Imagine Heaven, Burke compares over 100 gripping stories of near-death experiences (NDEs) to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of Heaven: Will I be myself? Will I see friends and loved ones? What will Heaven look like? What is God like? What will we do forever? What about children and pets?
For decades, Burke has been studying accounts of survivors brought back from near death who lived to tell of both heavenly and hellish experiences. While not every detail of individual NDEs correlate with Scripture, Burke shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of 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.
This thrilling journey into the afterlife will make you feel like you’ve been there. It will forever change the way you view the life to come and the way you live your life today. You’ll discover Heaven is even more amazing than you’ve ever imagined.
but what they describe is so incredibly beautiful and how they describe the actual “nearness” of heaven … I’d never given much thought to the physicality of heaven, but the way John unpacks the experiences of NDErs to what is actually written in Scripture has brought it to life in a way I’ve never been able to previously envision. Story after story after story give glimpses into a place I’d previously only thought about as Far, Far Away, but what they describe is so incredibly beautiful and how they describe the actual “nearness” of heaven gives me pause about that.
THIS BOOK IS AMAZING – IT BROUGHT IMMENSE PEACE IN THE FACE OF JUST LOSING MY DAD… I just lost my dad on October 15. Dad was a born-again Christian and served the Lord his whole life. I have been a Christian nearly 40 years. Despite this, I had such overwhelming grief over losing my precious dad. I don’t know if it was sadness, exhaustion, irrational thinking, or what, but even though I knew he was in Heaven….at the same time it didn’t seem real to me somehow – I couldn’t grasp onto that peace and find that solid ground. It was confusing to me to wander in the fog of…
Changed the way I look at, well, everything Imagine Heaven is so thoroughly researched that even a skeptic can see that Burke has thought of every angle. He’s researched near death experiences (NDEs) from all sorts of people: those who have nothing to gain and a lot of credibility to lose (e.g., doctors), those from other faiths, those with disabilities here who have no disabilities in heaven, and those who had negative experiences after dying.