Heaven Is For Real: You Need To See This Movie
Last week I went to see Heaven Is For Real , the newest faith-based film that has been marketed heavily to churches, and church-going folk. It rounds out a spring filled with similar kinds of movies like God's Not Dead and of course The Son of God. If you notice I left off Noah , you are very perceptive. While it's based on the Old Testament Flood account, Noah doesn't really fall in to the same category as the three aforementioned films. And it stunk up the screen, so there's that. So here's the thing, I was prepared not to really like Heaven Is For Real, which is based on the New York Times bestselling book of the same name. The film loosely follows the story line of the book, which was a true story of the Burpo family and their son Colton who had a near-death experience and saw heaven, met dead family members and talked with Jesus. I've seen too many Christian-marketed movies to know that my ex...