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Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant “The Shack” wrestles with the timeless question, “Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?” The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You’ll want everyone you know to read this book!

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #6 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From AudioFile
Mac is a grief-stricken father in mid-life about to have an extraordinary experience with God. His great sadness began four years ago on a weekend camping trip, when his 6-year-old daughter, Missy, was murdered. What he couldn’t know then, but is about to learn, was God’s purpose for Missy’s death. Roger Mueller’s clear, gentle voice characterizes Mac’s family with high-spirited joy and laughter. His portrayal of Missy’s animated excitement makes her especially believable. His polished performance of grief-stricken Mac brings tears. With empathy and sensitivity, Mueller captures the mysterious voices of those who have invited him to the now abandoned, yet transformed, cabin in the wilderness. This compelling fantasy explores themes of love, loss, and blame. G.D.W. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine– Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Review
“The Shack” is a one of a kind invitation to journey to the very heart of God. Through my tears and cheers, I have been indeed transformed by the tender mercy with which William Paul Young opened the veil that too often separated me from God and from myself. With every page, the complicated do’s and don’t that distort a relationship into a religion were washed away as I understood Father, Son and Holy Spirit for the first time in my life. –Patrick M. Roddy, ABC News Emmy Award winning producer

Finally! A guy-meets-God Novel that has literary integrity and spiritual daring. “The Shack” cuts through the cliches of both religion and bad writing to reveal something compelling and beautiful about life’s integral dance with the Divine. This story reads like a prayer–like the best kind of prayer, filled with sweat and wonder and transparency and surprise. When I read it, I felt like I was fellowshipping with God. If you read one work of fiction this year, let this be it. –Mike Morrell, zoecarnate.com

When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian cross-fertilize the result is a novel on the order of “The Shack.” This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” did for his. It’s that good! –Eugene Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C.

About the Author
William P. Young was born a Canadian and raised among a stone-age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult, and now enjoys the ‘wastefulness of grace’ with his family in the Pacific Northwest.

Customer Reviews

The Shady Shack
My cousin recommended this book to me. The longer I read, the more frustrated I became. As the plot unfolded, I thought perhaps this was going to be a book dealing with the age old question; “Why do bad things happen to good people?” However, the longer I read the more I understood this book was about the character of God, who He is, and our relationship with Him. I know this book is a work of fiction, but often people get their truths from fiction, and it could confuse some who are “babes” in the faith.
One of the first falacies that made me want to jump off my seat was when God is first introduced as a woman or rather 2 women, because God is “neither male nor female”. In the Bible, the inspired Word of God, God never once refers to himself as a female. He has always revealed Himself to us as a male. God does not have feminine characteristics, women (and men) have Godly characteristics. We are created in His image, not the other way around.
The author believes God loves everyone, that we are all his children. The truth is that while we are all God’s creation, we are not all his children. John 1:12 states, “all who receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the RIGHT to BECOME children of God.”
This book is very new age in it’s thinking. Justice is unnecessary and barbaric. Satan is not mentioned. The closest he gets to mentioning Satan is some strange reference to the “matrix” and it is implied that few if any go to hell, because God just doesn’t have the heart to send anyone there.
The virgin birth is not mentioned; Jesus is limited in being fully human, and while he does mention he is also fully God, he renders Him impotent of his Godly powers and claims Jesus can only do miracles because of God (the father?) working in Him and through him - reminiscent of Luke Skywalker and the force.
He states that the entire trinity was crucified with Jesus, that Jesus only felt abandoned. We know this isn’t true. Jesus cries out on the cross, “My God, My God, why has thou forsaken me? (Matt. 27:46) Jesus had to pay the FULL penalty for our sins, part of that penalty was separation from God -experiencing hell.
The author obviously has a problem with authority, religion, responsibility and law. In fact he states that in Jesus we are not under the law, everything is lawful. It is true that the law isn’t going to save us, good works are like filthy rags, unable to cleanse us of sin. However, obedience to the law is evidence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Much as an apple tree produces apples, the Christian life produces good works. Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? NO!
The final straw for me was when the author finally comes out and says it, you don’t have to be a Christian to be saved, it’s just the “best” way. Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth and the life, NO one comes to the father except through me.” (John 14:6)
There is SO much more wrong with the book, I just don’t have the space to cover it all.

everyone should read
A friend told be about the book. If you buy it, don’t buy one, buy more, because you will want to pass it along. You will cry, laugh, and some area of your life will be changed.

Life-changing
So many people kept telling me how great this book was, but I put off reading it because I’d heard that before. But this book is truly incredible. Though it’s not a true story, it’s based off of Paul’s conversations and actual experiences with God…which are eye opening, paradigm shifting, and yet incredibly simple. I understood God’s love for me in a much more tangible way after reading this…it really changed me.

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“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
–Randy Pausch

A lot of professors give talks titled “The Last Lecture.” Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can’t help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn’t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave–”Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”–wasn’t about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because “time is all you have…and you may find one day that you have less than you think”). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #10 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-08
• Released on: 2008-04-08
• Format: Roughcut
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Made famous by his Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon and the quick Internet proliferation of the video of the event, Pausch decided that maybe he just wasn’t done lecturing. Despite being several months into the last stage of pancreatic cancer, he managed to put together this book. The crux of it is lessons and morals for his young and infant children to learn once he is gone. Despite his sometimes-contradictory life rules, it proves entertaining and at times inspirational. Surprisingly, the audiobook doesn’t include the reading of Pausch’s actual Last Lecture, which he gave on September 18, 2007, a month after being diagnosed. Erik Singer provides an excellent inflective voice that hints at the reveries of past experiences with family and children while wielding hope and regret for family he will leave behind. The first CD is enhanced with photos.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

About the Author
Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1988-1997, he taught at the University of Virginia. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher, and has worked with Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts (EA), and Walt Disney Imagineering, and pioneered the Alice project. He lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.

Jeffrey Zaslow, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, attended the last lecture, and wrote the story that helped fuel worldwide interest in it. He lives in suburban Detroit with his wife, Sherry, and daughters Jordan, Alex and Eden.

Customer Reviews

Super Ego Maniac
I absolutely wanted to like this book, but I couldn’t. I didn’t know the man, but I know the type. Randy comes of a super ego maniac that loves being stroked. This is a celebration of his life, but not for his kids as much as for him. If his kids were so important to him why didn’t he spend every waking minute with them. ANY good parent would dedicate all the little time left on earth to their kids. I’m sorry, I feel bad cause the man died, but this book isn’t more than fluff.

Uplifting and Moving
This book was amazing. Randy Pausch makes you look at life through the eyes of “what really matters”. He gives you the optimissim to chase your dreams and to not settle for the status quo. I’m not an avid reader, but I really enjoyed this book.

not what I expected
I thought that the book would be the written version of the actual last lecture.

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Bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin takes you into the chambers of the
most important—and secret—legal body in our country,
the Supreme Court, and reveals the complex dynamic among
the nine people who decide the law of the land.

Just in time for the 2008 presidential election—where the future of
the Court will be at stake—Toobin reveals an institution
at a moment of transition, when decades of conservative disgust
with the Court have finally produced
a conservative majority, with major changes in store on such issues
as abortion, civil rights, presidential power, and church-state relations.

Based on exclusive interviews with justices themselves, The Nine
tells the story of the Court through personalities—from Anthony Kennedy’s
overwhelming sense of self-importance to Clarence Thomas’s well-tended
grievances against his critics to David Souter’s odd nineteenth-century lifestyle.
There is also, for the first time, the full behind-the-scenes story of Bush v. Gore—
and Sandra Day O’Connor’s fateful breach with George W. Bush, the president
she helped place in office.

The Nine is the book bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin was born to write.
A CNN senior legal analyst and New Yorker staff writer, no one is more superbly
qualified to profile the nine justices.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #242 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-18
• Released on: 2007-09-18
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

From Publishers Weekly
It’s not laws or constitutional theory that rule the High Court, argues
this absorbing group profile, but quirky men and women guided
by political intuition.
New Yorker legal writer Toobin (The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson)
surveys the Court from the Reagan administration onward, as the justices
wrestled with abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, gay rights
and church-state separation. Despite a Court dominated by
Republican appointees, Toobin paints not a conservative revolution
but a period of intractable moderation.
The real power, he argues, belonged to supreme swing-voter
Sandra Day O’Connor, who decided important cases with what Toobin
sees as an almost primal attunement to a middle-of-the-road public consensus.
By contrast, he contends, conservative justices Rehnquist and Scalia ended up
bitter old men, their rigorous constitutional doctrines made irrelevant
by the moderates’ compromises. The author deftly distills the issues
and enlivens his narrative of the Court’s internal wranglings with sharp
thumbnail sketches (Anthony Kennedy the vain bloviator, David Souter
the Thoreauvian ascetic) and editorials (inept and unsavory is his verdict on
the Court’s intervention in the 2000 election). His savvy account puts
the supposedly cloistered Court right in the thick of American life. (A final chapter
and epilogue on the 2006–2007 term, with new justices Roberts and Alito, was
unavailable to PW.) (Sept. 18)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
All rights reserved. From The Washington Post’s Book World/washingtonpost.com
Reviewed by Edward Lazarus

In 1979, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong published The Brethren,
an eye-popping look into the closed world of the Supreme Court under
then-Chief Justice Warren Burger. Through interviews with several justices
and dozens of former law clerks, the authors captured the personalities, rivalries,
politics and principles that drove the court’s decisions.

In the decades since, a number of writers have tried to do for the court under
Chief Justice William Rehnquist (and now John Roberts) what The Brethren did for
the Burger era. With The Nine, Jeffrey Toobin, a New Yorker staff writer
and CNN legal analyst, becomes the latest.

The idea behind The Nine — that the public should understand the court’s inner
workings — remains vital. To a degree that would baffle the Founding Fathers,
we have come to vest these unelected, life-tenured judges with final authority to
interpret the Constitution as well as all federal law. Yet the justices go to
considerable lengths to shroud their deliberations in secrecy, and some of them,
notably the current chief justice, engage in a disinformation campaign,
announcing that they are disinterested referees, like umpires in baseball,
engaged in the pedestrian enterprise of calling legal balls and strikes
according to a clear set of rules.

Toobin deserves credit for adding his influential voice to the chorus seeking to
debunk this myth. As he observes, the justices are chosen through a political
process for political reasons, and the decisions they reach are inevitably
influenced by their ideological commitments, personal experiences and personalities.

(In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that my book Closed Chambers
also discussed the court’s inner workings. Toobin cites my earlier work as a source,
and, in one brief passage, he suggests that we disagree on the subject of how
much influence law clerks wield.)

Toobin guides us through the last 15 years of court history by focusing on
individual justices, and his portraits are unspoiled by hagiography. Toobin’s
Rehnquist has little interest in the reasoning even of his own opinions;
the brilliant but pugnacious Antonin Scalia alienates potential allies;
Stephen Breyer is an eternal optimist with a sometimes unrealistic belief
in his own powers of persuasion; and a pompous Anthony Kennedy
(Toobin’s least favorite) revels in his power to shape the law.

At the center of the ensemble was Sandra Day O’Connor, the former politician
and Goldwater Republican who (sometimes with Kennedy) kept the court
on a relatively moderate path despite the efforts of its more conservative trio –
Rehnquist, Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Toobin portrays O’Connor as
a finger-in-the-wind justice: She aligned the court’s decisions with her
“unerring” sense of public opinion and, like the public, moved some
what to the left out of disenchantment with President Bush
(whose election, ironically, she helped to engineer by joining
the 5-4 majority in Bush v. Gore.) So it is that the court cut back on
Roe v. Wade but preserved a right to abortion, curbed affirmative action
but did not prohibit it, mediated between claims of religious freedom
and the need for a wall between church and state, and rejected
Bush’s claims of unreviewable executive power in the war on terror.

Court watchers will not be surprised by any of this. Almost all
the vignettes that enliven Toobin’s narrative — the alliances forged and broken,
the flaring tempers and hurt feelings — have been described by other journalists.
But this lack of originality could be overlooked if Toobin had used the material
to give us a greater understanding of how
the institution actually works. On this score, his book comes up a bit short.

In The Nine’s best moments, Toobin links the justices’ backgrounds to
their views. Few commentators, for example, have connected John
Paul Stevens’s military intelligence service in World War II to his legal opinions.
But Toobin makes the link persuasively in discussing Stevens’s
skepticism toward claims of military necessity in the Guantanamo cases.

Unfortunately, Toobin is also prone to significant overstatements.
He describes O’Connor as a justice who liked most matters to be settled through
the political process rather than by courts. Yet between 1995 and 2001, O’Connor
upset the political process to an extraordinary degree by voting to use judicial power
to strike down 50 state and federal laws, more than any justice except Kennedy.
Toobin couples Rehnquist with Scalia as practitioners of “original intent”
– a conservative doctrine of interpreting the Constitution according
to the intent of the framers rather than in light of experience. Rehnquist,
however, was not an originalist, and this rift with Scalia sometimes weakened
the court’s right wing. Toobin also describes Scalia’s jurisprudence as uniquely
consistent. Actually, a big knock on Scalia is that his “consistent” originalism
conveniently disappears in some important contexts (such as affirmative action
and state sovereign immunity) where originalism would lead to liberal results.
And Toobin describes Souter as modeling himself after the second
Justice John Harlan, which is true with respect to due process
and a few other issues but misses the important point that Harlan
was a devotee of states’ rights while Souter is a devotee of federal power.

Even more important, Toobin does not give us a coherent framework
for thinking about the court. He tends to applaud compromise, particularly
when it yields middle-of-the road decisions that accord with public opinion,
but he does not offer any explanation for why judges interpreting
the Constitution should see compromise or public approval as their goal.
Nor does Toobin explain how this view of judging fits with acclaimed decisions
such as Brown v. Board of Education, where the court stepped out in front of
public opinion, or with abominable decisions, including cases from the McCarthy era,
where the court condoned gross injustices while catering to popular opinion.
As a result, he sheds little light on how the public should evaluate the justices.

In the absence of explanation, one gets the sense that Toobin favors centrism not
because it gives coherence to the court’s role in our democracy but because,
with O’Connor having been replaced by the very conservative Samuel Alito,
Toobin dislikes last term’s rightward lurch and fears worse ahead.
As Toobin emphasizes, when it comes to the court, presidential elections
and the ideology of our justices really do matter. As he puts it, we get
“the Court we deserve.” Copyright 2007, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved.

From Bookmarks Magazine
The Nine is a welcome addition to the spate of recent Supreme Court histories
(see Jan Crawford Greenburg’s Supreme Conflict, ***1/2 May/June 2007).
Informative and authoritative, Jeffrey Toobin’s account draws on exclusive
interviews with the principals (one critic cited a possible breach of secrecy)
and offers colorful anecdotes about the members of the Court. The most important
parts of the book explore Sandra Day O’Connor’s critical swing votes,
Clinton’s impeachment hearings, and the Court’s role in Bush v. Gore.
“The tragedy,” Toobin concludes, “was not that it led to Bush’s victory,
but the inept and unsavory manner that the justices exercised their power.
” Only David J. Garrow, a Supreme Court historian, faulted Toobin’s
“debatable opinions” and disdain for various justices. Well written,
though chronologically disjointed, The Nine is, overall, a timely and important
examination of the Court’s past-and its future.

Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc.

Customer Reviews

not boring
A quick review of Jeff Toobin’s “The Nine”…fascinating.
And who would have thought that of Supreme Court Justices?
But Toobin held my attention by revealing the personalities
and proclivities of the justices via the cases presented to them.
The reader got a double dose of info and a well-written, engaging look into
the inner workings of the Supreme Court. Those nine people are actually
human beings like you and I. Altho Toobin casts a liberal’s slant,
the reader still cannot quite hate the conservatives. A good read.

Excellent and Scary
While others may have a positive impression about Alito, Roberts,
Thomas and Scalia, I have a negative view of them,
reinforced after reading this book.

This book is to the recent Supreme Court history what “The Brethren”
was to the Warren Burger court.

Excellent book and well written. And timely for this year’s presidential election.

The Personalities Who Mete Justice
I consider myself to be a reasonably educated American. I have a reasonably
good working knowledge of the branches of government. Still, of the three,
I would have to say that my knowledge of the judicial branch is the weakest.
In theory, I know about the function of the Supreme Court, but I knew very little
about the specifics of the people and the workings of the Court now, other than
tidbits I’d pick up from the news and magazines. Now, having finished Mr. Toobin’s
excellent book, I feel like I know much more.

The Nine is not a comprehensive history of the Supreme Court. Instead, it is a look
at the current make-up of the Court, particularly in the transition from the Rehnquist
Court to the Roberts Court. It blends information on the history and personalities
of various justices, a look at important rulings in their various tenures, and offers
insight into how the Court might trend in the future. In laying this before us,
Toobin gives us a nice overview of the last fifty years or so of American jurisprudence.

In particular, I feel I have a much better sense of these people who have shaped our
culture in such powerful ways. Of course, by nature of their impact, some personalities
stand out more than other. Sandra Day O’Connor, due to her position as a powerful
swing vote on the Court, seems to come through most powerfully, though
I feel Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas and Kennedy are also much clearer to me.
I also have to admit, I enjoyed learning about Souter’s eccentricities.
The newer justices, like Roberts and Alito, don’t get the depth of treatment due
to their short tenure but Toobin takes their impact into account.

Overall, I was extremely pleased by this book. It is very easy to read and informative.
There is an undercurrent of concern about how the direction of the Court changes
with the appointment of new justices; however, I didn’t feel this overwhelmed
the flow of the narrative. That is, after all, how the Court changes. As much as
we’d like to believe justice is impartial, it very much depends on the people
who are meting it out. Mr. Toobin has given us a great look at how this is currently
happening in the United States. Every American should read it.

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As he is driving home from a minister’s conference, Baptist minister
Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane.
He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90 minutes,
Piper experiences heaven where he is greeted by those
who had influenced him spiritually. He hears beautiful music
and feels true peace. Back on earth, a passing minister
who had also been at the conference is led to pray for Don
even though he knows the man is dead. Piper miraculously comes back
to life and the bliss of heaven is replaced by a long and painful recovery.
For years Piper kept his heavenly experience to himself. Finally, however,
friends and family convinced him to share his remarkable story.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #281 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Released on: 2004-09-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

From AudioFile
Don Piper recounts the dramatic story of his ninety-minute journey to heaven.
When a truck crushed his Ford Escort in a head-on collision,
he was declared dead on scene. But a passing minister sensed that
God wanted him to pray, so he reached through the wreckage to clasp
Piper’s bloody hand while he did so. Piper’s incredulous voice speaks
of what he believes he saw: heaven’s luminous gates through
which he could see streets paved with gold, as well as relatives
and loved ones who surrounded him yet wouldn’t let him pass through
because it wasn’t his time. This incredible story is one of faith and inspiration.
G.D.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine– Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

From the Publisher
Over 600,000 in print.

From the Back Cover
Get a glimpse of heaven On the way home from a conference, Don Piper’s car
was crushed by a semitruck that crossed into his lane. Medical personnel said
he died instantly. While his body lay lifeless inside the ruins of his car,
Piper experienced the glories of heaven, awed by its beauty and music.
90 minutes after the wreck, while a minister prayed for him, Piper miraculously
returned to life on earth with only the memory of inexpressible heavenly bliss.
His faith in God was severely tested as he faced an uncertain
and grueling recovery. Now he’d like to share his life-changing story with you.
90 Minutes in Heaven offers a glimpse into a very real dimension of God’s reality.
It encourages those recovering from serious injuries and those dealing
with the loss of a loved one.
The experience dramatically changed Piper’s life, and it will change yours too.
Don Piper is minister of education and single adults at the First Baptist Church
in Pasadena, Texas. He has appeared on Christian television and radio programs,
writes a weekly newspaper column, and leads conferences and retreats in
the United States and abroad. Cecil Murphey has written or coauthored
ninety-one books, including his work on the autobiography of Franklin Graham,
Rebel with a Cause.

Customer Reviews

Yes, Don really went to heaven!!
I’ve read a few reviews of this book in which the reviewer states
that Don couldn’t have gone to heaven. Think about it, folks: He was
dead. His spirit had to have gone SOMEWHERE.

I found the book to be very credible and very believable. The fact that
the description of heaven doesn’t occupy the whole book just makes it
that much more believable.

This is a story of trial and triumph. You are able to easily stay
with the author as he describes the long recovery process because
YOU CARE ABOUT HIM. He is a sympathetic author, and I couldn’t put the
book down until I had read every last word.

Thank you for writing this book, Rev. Piper!

Judi Ludwig - author of The Twenty People You Meet In Hell

To Heaven and Back
I have spent more than ten years researching, reading, and writing about near-death
experiences especially the role of light and The Light (God) in these experiences.
I heard about 90 Minutes in Heaven on a television documentary and was delighted
when my sister purchased a copy from Amazon and gave it to me as an ordination gift.
Don Piper’s description of Heaven as a “first class buffet for the senses”
…powerful embraces by relatives and friends… “heaven’s light, a warm,
radiant light that engulfed” him…”vivid, dazzling colors…everything was brilliantly
intense.” (pp. 23, 25 & 27) is in the mainstream of near-death experiences.
Then it was over and Don was back in his crushed, pain-wracked body- suffering
that continues.
But his experience of light, especially The Light (“brighter than the light that
surrounded us, utterly luminous”) that emanated from the “Gate of Heaven”
changed his life forever. (p. 27)
As Betty Eadie wrote in the bestseller Embraced by the Light, and as Morse, Moody,
and Kubler-Ross agree, people of light, A Being of Light (who Don did not see directly
because he was outside the “Gate of Heaven”), reluctance to return, and personality
transformation are part of the experience of light that most near-death
experiencers see, and which transforms them permanently.
Don Piper sums up his experiences after heaven: “I don’t have a death wish.
I’m not suicidal, but every day I think about going back. I long to return.
In God’s timing, I know with utter certainty that I will. … I have no fear of death.
… There’s nothing to fear - only joy to experience. …
Although I long for my heavenly home, I`m prepared to wait until the final summons
comes for me.” (pp. 196-97)
90 Minutes in Heaven is a great companion book for our journey through life to
our final destination!

90 Minutes of BS
Don’t read this book if you want to get an idea as to what heaven is “really” like.
What Piper describes in about 7 pages is the typical, cookie-cutter kind of heaven
everyone always talks about, but is most likely totally inaccurate. I think he was just
having a dream or something.

The remainder of the book describes his recovery in detail. It is extremely repetitive.
Practically every page describes his immense physical pain and how difficult
the recovery is.

And the icing on the cake for me was the part when he was in the diner with his friend.
And they looked around at all the other people in the diner and realized that basically
everyone there except for them was going to hell because they weren’t “believers”.

Now, I’m not an overly religious person, but last time I checked, it was God
who determined who was and was not going to hell, and no human on earth
should judge, which is precisely what he did.

And right now, he’s laughing all the way to the bank to deposit his millions.

SHAME ON YOU PIPER!!!!!!!!!