by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey
Reviewed by Jeanette Morris
To order: Amazon
It is a rare person who has no curiosity about what "lies beyond." The recent popularity of TV programs and movies that deal with the afterlife speaks to this inherent desire to know "Is there really a heaven?" In spite of our eagerness to learn, we are quick to discredit accounts by individuals who claim to have experienced death and returned with firsthand evidence of the reality of a realm beyond this one.
Don Piper is one of those individuals. He was silent for more than a decade. But now, thanks to his collaboration with ghostwriter Cec Murphy (member of The Christian PEN), his story, 90 Minutes in Heaven, is available-for the reader to believe or to scoff at. I don't think he really cares anymore what people think. There is enough evidence to prove his death had a purpose, and enough pain to prove his life has a purpose. The story is more than another life-after-death encounter. For a Christian, it is a challenge to the depth of one's faith and one's commitment to the belief in an omniscient God. It is ultimately a story that addresses the question "What am I doing here?"
Sure, we all want to know what heaven is like. We want more than the Scriptures offer us. We want details! Read Don's story. You will get details, and you will still long for more. You will thrill with hope and hope for more thrills. Most of all, you will wonder.
