Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son  of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from  consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about  being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying  in the waiting room. The family didn't know what to believe but soon  the evidence was clear.

Colton said he met his miscarried  sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who  died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know  details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride,  about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit  "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.

Told by the father,  but often in Colton's own words, the disarmingly simple message is  heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there  is a coming last battle.