I really love that jesus would die on the cross even though he didn’t really want to he still did it. jesus asked god to help him but he also said not my will but yours. that is a really powerful phrase. i really like that because even when he was facing death jesus was still faithful and did as God wanted.
Braden Gruppen
Mrs. Roskamp
LA, 8B
26 October 2015
My book is heaven is for real by Todd Burpo, with Lynn Vincent. in this book Todd’s son Colton was really sick and had to have surgery. when Colton came out of surgery he kept acting weird and then he said that he saw jesus and went to heaven. Coltons family had to Trust in God
Colton is really brave. Colton really didn’t care if he got killed anymore because he wanted to go back to heaven. Once when he and todd were coming out of a store and colton ran to the car on the other side of the road and almost got hit. Todd said that colton could get hit and die but Colton said he didn’t care because that means he could see God again.
Colton’s family couldn’t find a picture of jesus until a little girl painted him. Colton couldn’t explain Jesus’ face so his family showed him every picture of him that they could find and he said what was wrong with them. After a long time of showing him and asking “is this right?” they changed it to “what’s wrong with this one?” until a little girl who was having dreams about god in africa decided to teach her selfe to pant and painted Jesus’ face. When Todd asked what was wrong with this Colton just stared at it and said, “thats him”.
Todd is faithful. when colton was in surgery Todd went to a room and prayed to God but it really wasn’t like the “God i love you” kind of prayer it was more of the “God why?” prayer but it took faith to prayer i would’ve just not prayed at all and just trust in myself and not God. when Todd broke his leg he needed to be faithful that God would keep him from making it worse. and when he had breast cancer and he needed to have faith in God that it would go well and it did.
Trust in God. this book is really good because it is a true story and it is about a kid that goes to heaven and that doesn’t happen to often. so i really like this book it is one of the best i’ve read and it really means a lot just to know that heaven is real and it reassures me that i am saved by grace and that we are lucky that we have a trustworthy God that loves us very much.