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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life | 
 enlarge | Authors: Don Piper, Cecil Murphey
Publisher: Revell
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  441 reviews
Sales Rank: 274
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0800759494
Dewey Decimal Number: 231.73092
EAN: 9780800759490
ASIN: 0800759494
Publication Date: September 1, 2004
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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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 Great for fundamentalist Christians... May 17, 2008
I love books that give us glimpses into the mysteries of the afterlife. But this very brief and limited experience, and the author's very limited and literal insights (he tells us, for example, that the "Pearly Gates" are actually pearlescent rather than literally made of pearls, for instance) is not very illuminating in that respect.
However, his admirably honest account of his courageous recovery as he learns to live with his miraculously saved but chronically pain-wracked body is inspiring. Although his glimpse of heaven helped keep him going through everything and has been a blessing to those who have lost loved ones, this is essentially a tale of difficult and deep spiritual growth through learning to live through and with tremendous adversity.
 Ninety Minutes In Heaven May 15, 2008
Having had a near death experience in 2003 I was amazed when I read this book. This pastor saw many of the same things I did; he saw more. I have been a nurse 30+ years and been at the bedside of many who died wondering what they were seeing, sharing tears with family members although nurses are not supposd to do this. No family member ever objected and actually appreciated my feelings for them. I was hospitalized for a month and on mechanical ventilation not expected to live as all my systems were shutting down. Many people were praying for me and God saw fit to keep me on earth. My husband was told if I did live I would be in a vegetative state or in a wheel chair. I can tell you that it was a long way back, but today my mind is as good as it ever was. I do have times when I have slight remissions, yet my experiences have had a positive outcome for those I talk to. I believe it is natual to have a fear of death as it is the "unknown". I have no fears of death now and I tell everyone this. I went too far to ever fear this last enemy. Jesus paved the way for all of us and some of us get a glimpse of heaven. After this we no longer have to fear, expecially when we have been lucky enough to see so much. It is quite easy and painless to die. It is getting to this stage that may be painful. Have no fear as there are so many beautiful things awaiting us on the other side and in my case I saw no tunnel or bright light. I was simply there. I hope you find my comments encouraging. I have bought this book to give to a few people and they have loved it. I believe it is a "must" for those who wonder what happens when we die. We do not really die (just the physical body does). We simply are immediately transitioned to heaven. J.Green
A little disapointed May 15, 2008
I thought this book was just ok. I bought this book because i recently lost my mother and thought it would bring me some comfort. I think the author focuses on his recovery to much and would like to have read more about his 90 minutes in heaven.
Yes, Don really went to heaven!! May 10, 2008
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 May 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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!
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