John Burke
1) Imagine heaven: near-death experiences, God's promises, and the exhilarating future that awaits you
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John Burke compares gripping stories of near-death experiences (NDEs) to what Scripture says about our biggest questions of Heaven. The author shows how the common experiences shared by thousands of survivors--including doctors, college professors, bank presidents, people of all ages and cultures, and even blind people--point to the exhilarating picture of Heaven promised in the Bible.
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You've heard it all before. The promises for a better life get tiresome after awhile, because you know they don't deliver. However, they do touch on a profound and inescapable truth. You were created to live your life out of a rewarding, richly textured relationship with God and others—and deep down, you long to experience that kind of life. But how? Are you willing to devote sixty days to finding out?
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How do we live out the message of Jesus in today's ever-changing culture?
The church is facing its greatest challenge—and its greatest opportunity—in our postmodern, post-Christian world. God is drawing thousands of spiritually curious "imperfect people" to become his church—but how are we doing at welcoming them?
No Perfect People Allowed shows you how to deconstruct the five main barriers standing between emerging generations and...
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In 2015, John Burke's Imagine Heaven took the book world by storm, landing on the New York Times bestseller list and selling more than half a million copies. It's exhilarating picture of heaven, drawn from Scripture and illustrated with true stories of near-death experiences, enthralled readers and offered real-life evidence that supported their faith and answered some of their most pressing questions about life after death. Scripture tells us to...
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Why were sinners so attracted to Jesus yet repelled by the religious? It had everything to do with the heart of Jesus. They sensed that Jesus was for them--not against them. When broken, sinful people feel repelled by Christians, we must assess whether our hearts reveal the heart of God or reflect the heart of the Pharisees. Through this engaging study of Jesus's encounters with imperfect people, combined with real-life stories of ordinary people...
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The Gallup Poll reports that 1 in 25 people has had a near-death experience. Their heart stopped beating, their brain waves ceased, yet they claim they were more alive than ever. With improved medical resuscitation, more and more verifiable evidence indicates that life doesn't end with our last breath--it's just beginning.
Drawing out the similarities found by studying over 1,000 accounts of near-death experiences around the globe, John Burke unfolds...
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More Misery Than Joy is a warm and witty collection of poetry that reveals the essence of author John Burkes view of the world. Touching and yet humorous, the best introduction to his poetry his own poetic invitation: About The Book Warning! Puritans should stay away, You'll only throw stones my way! What is an artist if not a person who causes people to ponder and impart their impressions even if they are wrong, I wonder? For everyone has an opinion,...
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An innocent man is arrested for a murder committed by a woman. A guilty killer confesses to a murder-but the police arrest an innocent woman. A man finds the woman of his dreams-only to discover that he's entrapped in a nightmare. The tenants of a new block of flats are so delighted with their home that they don't ever want to leave-little realizing that they CAN'T leave. A husband and wife find that all their wishes can come true-but with death as...
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Millones de personas alrededor del mundo han reportado experiencias cercanas a la muerte. ¿Prueban tales descripciones la existencia de un Dios amoroso?
Jamás en la historia habíamos tenido acceso a tantas historias de personas alrededor del mundo que han sobrevivido la muerte clínica. La resucitación médica moderna y la comunicación digital han revelado una mina de oro de intrigantes experiencias cercanas a la muerte (ECM). Por tres décadas,...
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From out of the bog alongside the ancient track to the fenland village of Hexney, a line of deep freshly-made footprints runs, trodden into the dry surface of the abandoned driveway. Are these footprints, or hoof prints, or what? Triangular, eight or nine inches long, they're set in a line one in front of another. And, each night, the footprints are advancing steadily towards the village. When a young boy's body is found in the marsh, the superstitious...
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One of the most famous aviators of all time, Amelia Earhart took the golden age of flying by storm! Taking her first flight lesson in 1920, Earhart would go on to set the world altitude record, be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone, and many more feats. Who knows what she could have accomplished if not for her mysterious disappearance while attempting to fly around the entire world in 1937. This incredible history of Amelia Earhart...
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Acerca de Una encuesta de Gallup informa que una de cada veinticinco personas ha tenido una experiencia cercana a la muerte. El corazón les dejó de latir, sus ondas cerebrales cesaron, pero afirman que estaban más vivos que nunca. Con la reanimación médica mejorada, cada vez más pruebas -verificables- indican que la vida no termina con nuestro último aliento, al contrario, solo está comenzando.
Al extraer las similitudes encontradas en un...
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In 1880s England, Dr. Caspian and his wife Bronwen both have genuine psychic abilities, which they keep secret. Even so, they've gained a reputation as investigators of so-called psychic phenomena, exposing a number of fraudulent mediums. In their latest adventure, they're consulted by prominent politician Joseph Hinde, whose beautiful daughter Laura has become strangely withdrawn. Her secret assignations have led him to suspect that she might be...
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Millions of people around the world have reported a near-death experience. Do these accounts prove the existence of a loving God? Never in history, until now, have we been able to hear from so many people around the world who have been brought back from clinical death. Modern medical resuscitation and digital communication have revealed a gold mine of intriguing near-death experiences (NDEs). John Burke has spent the last three decades studying the...
15) Handfast
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Handfast is a supernatural tale by British fantasist John Burke.
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Millions of people around the world have reported a near-death experience. Do these accounts prove the existence of a loving God?
Never in history, until now, have we been able to hear from so many people around the world who have been brought back from clinical death. Modern medical resuscitation and digital communication have revealed a gold mine of intriguing near-death experiences (NDEs). John Burke has spent the last three decades studying the...
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Random Acts is Book I of the Hard Winter series. Chuck Truett never imagined himself a bank robber, but when he realizes that the big banks and their sock-puppets in Congress have conspired to steal the wealth of the middle class, and the Rule of Law doesn't apply to the elite, he decides to rob the thieves. He's lost just about everything that mattered anyway, he might as well go down swinging. His timing couldn't be much worse: the day he chooses...
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The ancient, sinister castle located in the isolated Welsh countryside is no mere heap of dead stones. It quivers with an evil life of its own. Sinister powers are reaching through the castle gateway from somewhere out beyond-evil, menacing Old Gods that had once been thrust out of the world, but now clamor to return. The stranger who appears at the nearby farm on the hillside isn't coming to fulfill Nora's romantic dreams-he's got his own part to...
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The place: England; the time: the 1880s. Sir Mortimer Brobury dies suddenly, and his son David inherits his title. With his new wife Judith, he moves into Ladygrove Manor, the ancestral home. At first their lives are untroubled-until Judith falls pregnant. Suddenly there's a sinister change in the atmosphere at Ladygrove. An invisible presence prevents Judith from entering the Maze in the Manor gardens-where previously she had wandered freely. And...
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Who was the man who never grew old? Even in the enlightened society of near-future Earth, he was feared, reviled, castigated for remaining forever young. But when Matthew admits to his amazing longevity, and its source in biological science, he's called a liar. Life on Earth becomes intolerable, until he volunteers to travel on the world first interstellar spaceship-a multi-generation colony ship that will take centuries to complete its voyage. And...