Visits to Heaven and Back: Are They Real?

by Mark Hitchcock

Publisher:

Tyndale

, 2015

Overview

Today’s bestseller lists are filled with stories of those who have claimed to experienced heaven firsthand. Curiosity about what will happen after we die is as strong as ever in the twenty-first century. Yet, each book contains a different story about what we will experience in heaven.

In Visits to Heaven and Back: Are They Real? Mark Hitchcock, a respected Bible teacher, sorts out the facts. He chronicles the recent phenomenon of “heaven” books, comparing and contrasting the ideas presented in these books and revealing the discrepancies and contradictions. Then, Mark turns to the Bible, laying out clearly the teachings about heaven and experiences in this life of another world. The Bible does reveal that there is a world beyond this one, but it also contains clear warnings and amazing promises.

Key Features

• Helpful Christians understand what is true about heaven based on Scripture
• Demonstrates God’s clear and certain promises concerning heaven
• Works through the history of books about heaven comparing their ideas and discrepancies

Contents

• Heaven Can’t Wait
• The ABCs of NDEs
• “I Thought I’d Died and gone to Heaven”
• Your Best Afterlife now
• Dead Wrong
• Heaven Is for Real—Is it for Real?
• Trouble in Paradise
• To Hell and Back
• What Is Heaven Like?
• How to Be Dead Right
• Appendix 1: Answers to Common Questions about Death and Heaven
• Appendix 2: Recommended Books on Heaven and the Afterlife
• Appendix 3: Scripture Passages about Heaven

Product Details

• Title: Visits to Heaven and Back: Are They Real?
• Author: Mark Hitchcock
• Publisher: Tyndale
• Publication Date: 2015
• Pages: 240
• Christian Group: Evangelicals
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Topic: Heaven

About Mark Hitchcock

Mark Hitchcock was born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He attended Oklahoma State University and graduated from law school in 1984. After working for a judge at the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals for four years, Mark was led to attend Dallas Theological Seminary, graduating in 1991. Since that time, he has served as senior pastor of Faith Bible Church in Edmond, Oklahoma. He completed his PhD at Dallas Theological Seminary in 2005 and serves as an associate professor of Bible exposition at DTS. He has authored over thirty books related to end-time Bible prophecy that have sold over one million copies.