John Burke
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
John Burke returns to the show with his latest book "Imagine the God of Heaven". This follow-up to Burke's bestseller Imagine Heaven further explores ideas of the afterlife. The intersection of modern medical technology and global social media is revealing more near-death experiences than ever before! Burke analyzes over 1,000 of these events, shares 70 true stories from around the globe, and highlights how they affirm God's biblical attributes.
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| 0:38.6 | Here now is Mr. Completed My Bucket List at age 12, Eric Mattaxas. |
| 0:45.3 | Folks, I have as my guest, John Burke, who's the author of Imagine the God of Heaven, |
| 0:50.9 | near death, experiences, God's revelation, and the love you've always wanted. John Burke, welcome. Hey, thanks for having me on the show. Now, you just reminded me that you were last on this show about seven years ago. We were just kids then. We were in junior high. We said, let's do a radio show. And was that Ham Radio? I don't know. It was a long time ago. |
| 1:15.1 | And you, back then you wrote a book called Imagine Heaven. |
| 1:16.0 | Imagine Heaven. |
| 1:17.7 | So let me ask you the first question. |
| 1:25.4 | What's the difference, or is there a difference between the book Imagine Heaven and the new book, Imagine the God of Heaven? |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.3 | So I wrote Imagine Heaven after 35 years of studying over a thousand near-death experiences. I actually came at it as an agnostic. I was an engineer, |
| 1:38.9 | always been very analytical. My dad was dying of cancer, and someone gave him the very first research on the topic, |
| 1:46.3 | and I read it in one night and said, wow, this might be actual evidence that this God, Jesus stuff is real. |
| 1:53.6 | And so that started me on my search. |
| 1:55.3 | I came to faith in Christ. |
| 1:57.8 | And when was that? |
| 1:59.0 | Oh, that was 80s, early 80s. |
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