John Burke

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And I would recommend John Burke's Imagine Heaven as my first book.

And I wrote a book called A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles.

And in that book, I showed how you can tell the difference between a miracle and a coincidence.

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John Burke twice.

He has a new book coming out this fall.

I'd say the more acquainted you are with the God of the Bible, the freer and more joyfully you'll walk out your faith journey on Earth.

John and Kathy Burke join me today to talk about their beautiful new devotional, Imagine the God of Heaven: 60 Reflections on the Heart of God From the Bible and Near-Death Experiences.

In fact, if you're new to Faith Radio, y- we've had John on a bunch of times before.

We'll qualify that in case you have questions about what that means and, uh, but we're gonna tell some stories that will rock your world.

And as ev- every time that John comes on, and I'm so blessed now to have his wife, Kathy, with us today, what we hear from people after the show is, "I suddenly feel so in awe that I'm known by God, that I'm loved by God, that a great eternity awaits me, and that I can live by faith even now." Got a couple announcements, first of all.

Se- first, if you are brand-new to the Faith Radio family and you've never trusted Jesus for salvation, today's a perfect day to do that.

The Bible says, "Today if you hear His hear- hear His voice, do not harden your heart.

Request yours today at myfaithradio.com. Now let me tell you about my guests.

Yours very truly, Brooklyn National League Baseball Club by C.H. Ebbetts.

The second letter is from Mr. John Burke, trainer of the New York American League baseball team.

He says, To the managing editor, New York Evening Journal.

Dear sir, the members of the New York American Club are very glad to amuse the newsboys by playing for them without any charge whatever, and we accept with pleasure the Evening Journal's kind invitation to dine after the game.

In every organization there are, of course, one or two men more or less tempted by alcohol.

Our experience is that men can drink beer with safety, but that the stronger drinks are apt to start off a weaker man and make it difficult for him to keep in the condition that high-class baseball demands.

Yours very truly, the New York American League Baseball Club by John Burke, trainer.

The Evening Journal has said, and will repeat, that whiskey is a drug and not a drink.

It's a near-death experience I believe can help all of us see that justice will one day be done, but also how we can overcome evil in whatever forms it takes coming against us.

Well, I'm John Burke, author of the New York Times bestselling book, Imagine Heaven, and this is the Imagine Heaven podcast.

Hey, Debbie, thank you so much for joining me today on the Imagine Heaven podcast.

Hi.

And unfortunately, too thin, too few people do this.

What does that accountability look like for a church to kind of move in that direction to be able to say this is the structure? I love John Burke, who's a friend of mine, the original Gateway Church in Austin, Texas.

And he has a banner over his church door.

It says, come as you are, but you can't stay that way.

You're in an auto accident.

Boom.

John Burke's book on Imagine the God of Heaven, right? Here we are.

And it's in a moment.

Just believe me.

But he gave them reasons to believe John five is a good place for that.

So I felt like it was biblical.

It was okay for me as a Christian to ask these questions and read the best of both sides.

So God uses the Thomases, right?

He does.

In fact, there's a lot of us around because Jesus said in John, I believe it was chapter 4, he said, You simply will not believe.

And that's why I think this is such an important part of our defense of the Christian faith, because I think these events are signs and wonders in the sense that they're wonders in the sense that they go against what you would expect of the natural order.