Welcome to Vlad Subtchuk podcast.

Our mission at Vladimir Subject Ministries is to reach the world globally and disciple them digitally.

Let's dive into this episode. Welcome everyone to this channel as well as to this video. I believe that today's video is not only

going to expose you to some very interesting things, but also those of you who are maybe just curious,

it's going to give you some guidance toward a phenomena that's happening in our culture.

You probably have heard about this, about near-death experiences, about heaven, about the future that's waiting all of us.

Just about a year ago, I watched After Death documentary,

which was based on real near-death experiences,

and it explored the whole idea of afterlife,

and there was a lot of New York best-selling authors,

medical experts, scientists, and survivors

who actually shed light on what awaits us. And one of them that was not only

in that documentary, but is actually a New York bestselling author, Pastor John Burke, he's a founder

and a former Lee pastor of Gateway Church. And not only that, but he's a president of Gateway Leadership

Initiative. And he wrote a lot of books.

One of them is Imagine Heaven.

And he just recently released another book, Imagine God, and about the God of Heaven who wants to welcome everyone to heaven.

And so we're going to learn about near-death experiences.

We're going to learn about afterlife. But first and foremost, John, I want to welcome you to my channel and introduce

you to our audience. Hey, Vlad. Thanks for having me on. John, your life started as a skeptic of religion.

You were engineered by training. And actually, you were watching your father die out of cancer and you read a book by Dr.

Raymond Moody who actually coined this term near death experiences. How did that cause you to start

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