Best of 2025: Envisioning What Heaven Will Be Like
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What will heaven be like? That’s a question many people ponder. And with some people experiencing glimpses of heaven when they have been close to death, we hear descriptions that exceed the boundaries of our imagination. In this Best of 2025 episode, Pam Farrel shares her vision of heaven as a result of a medically-induced coma, while expert John Burke backs up her experience with his near-death experience research and stories. It’s a fascinating discussion—full of hope and wonder—that you don’t want to miss!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Jim Daly. We've enjoyed spending time with you this year, helping strengthen your marriage, your parenting, and your walk with Jesus Christ. |
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| 0:39.9 | The walled city was like heaven with the pearly gates, only they were much more golden then, |
| 0:46.2 | and the angels were above that, and they were dancing and they were glittering gold. |
| 0:51.5 | And then it was shift and morphed to the mountains. |
| 0:55.0 | And the mountains even were like even more beautiful than any mountain range that I've |
| 0:59.4 | ever seen anywhere that's Pam Farrell sharing just a bit of her incredible |
| 1:04.9 | out-of-this-world experience on today's focus on the family with Jim Daly she |
| 1:09.6 | joins us along with John Burke and and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:13.3 | Thank you for joining us for another of our best of 2025 episodes. |
| 1:17.8 | John, I'm really excited about this program we're about to share. |
| 1:21.6 | And I think people are going to enjoy it. |
| 1:23.0 | John Burke has been here a few times with such breathtaking accounts of people who have had near-death |
| 1:29.3 | experiences and really a phenomenal way to approach those things, to categorize them. |
| 1:35.6 | We'll hear more from him in a moment. |
| 1:37.6 | But I've just always been taken by that. |
| 1:40.0 | His wonderful book, Imagine Heaven, made a big difference in Gene and I's Life. |
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