This book is a composite overview of details of heaven from fifty published eyewitness testimonies of heaven. All of these testimonies are combined with regard to many facets of heaven and are presented side by side to give a more complete picture of each detail of heaven than any single eyewitness account gives. The description of the illness or accident that caused the authors to die temporarily and their subsequent recovery are omitted so only the heaven experiences are given. As a result, this book's description of heaven is more direct, detailed, and extensive than that of any other book.Because so many testimonies are considered, the consistencies in these accounts gives support for their authenticity. Since different people see things differently, it also gives a more accurate picture than any one person's experience can give. John Burke's Imagine Heaven comes the closest to be an alternative reference. But while Burke includes some of the same sources I have used, he summarizes what he has learned from all of them and occasionally gives a lengthy quotation from one of his sources. He also deals with NDE's in general, while I limit my focus to actual descriptions of heaven or hell. This book gives in paraphrase what each relevant author said about the feature in question. This allows the reader to formulate his or her own idea from the data rather than accepting someone else's analysis. It makes the reader closer to the actual experience of heaven than does John Burke's analysis. Perhaps the best single experience is that of Richard Sigmund, My Time in Heaven, who was dead for eight hours before resuscitating. He described more of heaven than any other single author I have read. But even so, seeing his description side by side with that of others gives a clearer picture than does just his one testimony.In addition, the bibliography is annotated so the reader can tell what each book is like. For every description given throughout the book, the author and page reference are given for the source of that statement. This enables the reader to go to the author's description and read it directly. In that sense, this book is like an encyclopedia of heaven.It also includes nineteen testimonies of hell from people who went there when they temporarily died, or, in some cases, when they went to heaven but Jesus wanted them to see the alternative. Seeing both the beauty, joy, love, peace, fullness, relationships, and all of heaven and the solitude, torture, fear, hate, evil, and all of hell, should make one determined to choose the way to the Father and His Kingdom rather that the way of Satan and the angels who rebelled against God's authority. This is indeed the experience of all those who witnessed hell. They are determined NEVER to return to that place.

Have you wondered what a loved one is like in Heaven? Have you wondered whether you will actually enjoy life there? Do you wonder if your favorite pet will be there? There are many books telling what the Bible tells us about heaven and some books where the author claims to have been there. This book is a composite overview of details of heaven from fifty published eyewitness testimonies of heaven. All of these testimonies are combined with regard to many facets of heaven and are presented side by side to give a more complete picture of each detail of heaven than any single eyewitness account gives. As a result, this book's description of heaven is more direct, detailed, and extensive than that of any other book. Because so many testimonies are considered, the consistencies in these accounts give support for their authenticity. Since different people see things differently, this book gives a more accurate picture than any one person's experience can give. Prepare to be abundantly blessed and given a new perspective on this life in view of what is coming.

So this is Heaven! These true stories are your unique, personal opportunities to enjoy a taste of Heaven from here on earth. Heaven Is Beyond Your Wildest Expectations shares the testimonies of ten ordinary people who have been to Heaven—having died and returned, or in a vision or dream. These real-life, modern-day stories inspire faith that, no matter what happens here on earth, all troubles are momentary, light afflictions compared to the glory that awaits you in Heaven. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison (2 Corinthians 4:17). When you see God’s love permeating all of Heaven and realize that He reaches down to you right where you are, your heart will come to rest in Him—knowing He is watching over you and that His angels will minister to you in every moment of need. When you know that Heaven’s splendor and glory is your eternal destiny, you can endure whatever you must while patiently waiting for the day when you will enter Heaven and your eternal joy in the presence of the Lord.

Over 1 Million Copies Sold! Have you ever wondered . . . ? What is Heaven really going to be like? What will we look like? What will we do every day? Won’t Heaven get boring after a while? We all have questions about what Heaven will be like, and after twenty-five years of extensive research, Dr. Randy Alcorn has the answers. In the most comprehensive and definitive book on Heaven to date, Randy invites you to picture Heaven the way Scripture describes it—a bright, vibrant, and physical New Earth, free from sin, suffering, and death, and brimming with Christ’s presence, wondrous natural beauty, and the richness of human culture as God intended it. This is a book about real people with real bodies enjoying close relationships with God and each other, eating, drinking, working, playing, traveling, worshiping, and discovering on a New Earth. Earth as God created it. Earth as he intended it to be. The next time you hear someone say, “We can’t begin to image what Heaven will be like,” you’ll be able to tell them, “I can.” “Other than the Bible itself, this may well be the single most life-changing book you’ll ever read.” —Stu Weber “This is the best book on Heaven I’ve ever read.” —Rick Warren “Randy Alcorn’s thorough mind and careful pen have produced a treasury about Heaven that will inform my own writing for years to come.” —Jerry B. Jenkins “Randy does an awesome job of answering people’s toughest questions about what lies on the other side of death.” —Joni Eareckson Tada About the Author Randy Alcorn is an author and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, a nonprofit ministry dedicated to teaching principles of God’s Word and assisting the church in ministering to unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled, and unsupported people around the world. A New York Times bestselling author of over 50 books, including Heaven, The Treasure Principle, If God Is Good, Happiness, and the award-winning novel Safely Home, his books sold exceed eleven million copies and have been translated into over seventy languages. Randy resides in Oregon with his wife, Nanci.

Heaven is amazing! is based on 34 eyewitness testimonies, synthesized into a complete whole. The consistency and variability of the testimonies also demonstrate that these testimonies have to be considered authentic. No two people could hallucinate the same thing. Along with the consistency, there are the variations one would expect of two or more eyewitnesses to the same event. The reader will be transfixed and exhilarated by all that awaits! Dr. LaFrance expects the reader to be encouraged about the glorious state and wonderful life of departed loved ones and comforted in the anticipation of his or her own eternal future. Enjoy and be inspired!

From the author of the acclaimed Dinner with Persephone comes a radically original novel about four women who invite us to imagine the divine anew: what if “a woman’s point of view” were also God’s? Patricia Storace’s Eve begins by telling us her version of what happened in Eden, and by revealing that our familiar constellations conceal other heavens we have never allowed ourselves to see. Each of the four subsequent chapters is the story of one of these new zodiacs, featuring images central to women: a knife, a cauldron, a garden, a pair of embracing lovers. The four women whose stories they tell are Job’s daughter, the Queen of Sheba, a polytheistic cook, and a transformed Sarah, wife of Abraham. Storace brilliantly reimagines the worlds of these women, freeing them from the old tales in which they were trapped and putting them in the foreground of their stories and of the Old Testament itself.