Lee Strobel - The Case for Heaven: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for Life After Death

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The most obvious fact of life is that everybody dies. It would be irrational and foolish to live our entire lives unprepared for what we know is inevitable! Thats why reading this book will be one of the wisest investments of time youll ever make. It will end your worrying and wondering, your fretting and fearing, about life after death. Instead, youll gain the confidence and peace of mind that come from settling your eternal destiny.

DR. RICK WARREN, The Purpose Driven Life and the Daily Hope broadcast

This is the most powerfully uplifting and extensively researched book I have ever read on the subject of heaven. If youve struggled to know what to believe and why, you will find your answers in these pages. Every human being should have the privilege of reading this book.

SHEILA WALSH, author of Holding On When You Want to Let Go

The Case for Heaven engages both the mind through convincing evidence and the heart through personal narratives and discoveries. I hope that youwhether a Christian or a skepticwill read, discuss, and share this book with others.

SEAN MCDOWELL, PhD, associate professor of apologetics at Talbot School of Theology and coauthor of Evidence That Demands a Verdict

Lee Strobel is a national treasure. In The Case for Heaven, he answers tough questions, removes obstacles to belief, and gives us confidence in why we can believe that heaven is a beautiful reality we can look forward to experiencing.

Bestselling author DERWIN GRAY, lead pastor, Transformation Church

Lee Strobel tackles challenging questions about reincarnation, annihilation, and hell as he makes a convincing, compelling case for heaven. He helps the reader overcome the fear of death. I plan on getting two copiesone to keep as a reference and one to give to a skeptic.

ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ, author of Jesus in Me

The Case for Heaven may be Lee Strobels best book yet. Well-researched and clearly written, it presents the evidence for heaven powerfully and faces the best arguments against it with honesty. It is so engaging and inspiring that its difficult to put it down.

J. P. MORELAND, distinguished professor of philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, and author of A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles

As a detective, I wish Lee Strobel had been my partner becauseas alwayshe leaves no stone unturned. His interviews will open your eyes and encourage your soul. The Case for Heaven is a must-read and a powerful addition to Lees seminal Case For book series.

J. WARNER WALLACE, Dateline-featured cold-case detective, senior fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, and author of Person of Interest and Cold-Case Christianity

Prepare to be taken on a journey of hearing key insights from experts in their field and heartfelt honesty from those facing death. The Case for Heaven may challenge the status quo, but it will not disappoint.

Neuroscientist SHARON DIRCKX (PhD, Cambridge), author of Am I Just My Brain?

Lee Strobel has done it again, this time with a fascinating, challenging, thoughtful, and moving book on the realities of heavenand hell. Through his keen research, skillful storytelling, and apt interviews with experts, Strobel makes a compelling case for the historic Christian doctrine of the afterlife.

DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS, philosophy professor, Denver Seminary

If this book were a television show, it might be called Touched by the Truth. Let this impressive array of experts impact your life and faith with the evidence for the world to come. Youll be encouraged as you encounter the compelling case for the life that awaits you.

Emmy-nominated actress, producer, and New York Times bestselling author ROMA DOWNEY

This investigator doesnt shrink from bringing up the tough topics. Lee Strobel reminds us how the gospel insightfully addresses our most challenging intellectual questions and how it powerfully meets our deepest human needs.

PAUL COPAN, Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics, Palm Beach Atlantic University, and author of Is God a Moral Monster?

No one today is more fit to make the case for heaven than Lee Strobel, the man who wrote The Case for Easter. If Jesus was raised from the dead to the right hand of the Father, heaven is a reality. The one implies the other, and Lee knows it.

SCOT MCKNIGHT, professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary, and author of The Heaven Promise and A Church Called Tov

Some years ago, there was a movie titled Heaven Can Wait. But the truth is, heaven cant wait, and questions about heaven, hell, and the hereafter must be reckoned with sooner rather than later. The Case for Heaven is a great place to begin.

DON SWEETING, president, Colorado Christian University

The Case for Heaven showcases why Lee Strobel is among the most unique and interesting writers of our time. In an age of pandemic, depression, and violence, Im thrilled that Lee has focused his attention on this question of eternal significance.

JOHN STONESTREET, president of the Colson Center and host of the BreakPoint podcasts

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The Case for Heaven

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Epub Edition July 2021 9780310358435

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Strobel, Lee, 1952- author.

Title: The case for heaven : a journalist investigates evidence for life after death / Lee Strobel.

Description: Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: In The Case for Heaven, bestselling author and investigative journalist turns a critical eye on the evidence for heaven, a variety of claims about the afterlife, and modern-day stories of near-death experiences to build a compelling case that death is not the end of our existence but a transition to an exciting and very real world to comeProvided by publisher.