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My Rating: Five Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
THE CASE FOR HEAVEN is based on the new book by best-selling author Lee
Strobel, who wrote The Case For Christ.
Featuring interviews with best-selling author John Burke, world-renowned pastor Francis Chan, the late Evangelist Luis Palau and more.
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THE CASE FOR HEAVEN will be exclusively on Pure Flix starting July 15th!
"Viewers will be surprised, captivated and encouraged by 'The Case for Heaven,' a beautiful and compelling film. It will dispel many of their misconceptions about the afterlife. I’m thrilled with the enthusiastic reception the documentary has received so far – and I can't wait for an even wider audience to experience it.” -Lee Strobel.
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Synopsis: We all want to know what happens after we die. In THE CASE FOR
HEAVEN, best-selling author and investigative journalist Lee Strobel explores the evidence for the afterlife in order to address man’s biggest fear: death. Inspired by his own brush with death, Strobel searches for answers to the most profound questions we all have, about heaven, hell, and Near-Death Experiences. Featuring interviews with experts and skeptics, THE CASE FOR HEAVEN will challenge, encourage and inspire as Strobel dares to probe the most important question. If there is a heaven, can we prove it?
We are curious by nature. Taking on the big questions about heaven, hell and the afterlife, The Case For Heaven—a documentary based on the best-selling book by Lee Strobel—invites you to carefully investigate the knowable and respond with faith to the unknowable.
ONE LINE DESCRIPTION
From the best-selling author and former atheist turned Christian apologist Lee Strobel, uncover the next investigation: What happens after we die?
Documentary from best-selling author and former atheist turned Christian apologist Lee Strobel. He examines near-death experiences and tries to determine what happens after life on earth.
REAL-LIFE STORIES / INTERVIEWS
- A documentary based on the new book by Lee Strobel
- Harry Broom
- Howard Storm - emergency surgery required, atheist and had a near-death experience in a “dank, dark hallway” where individuals became increasingly violent. He suddenly remembered the song “Jesus Loves Me” when was a child. When he asked Jesus to save him, a light appeared and he was brought back to life.
- Eric Owyoung - musician - wrote the music for “The Case for Heaven.”
- John Burke - author of “Imagine Heaven” - interviewed people with lots to lose and nothing to gain from discussing their experiences.
- Pamela Reynolds - brain aneurysm surgery
- Steve Caballero - professional skateboarder - atheist to believer
- Jon Steingard - Hawk Nelson band member - believer to atheist/agnostic
- Francis Chan - author, pastor - “Erasing Hell: What God Said About Eternity, and the Things We’ve Made Up.” His mother died in childbirth and his father blamed him for that.
- Luis Palau - lifelong evangelist, dying of stage four cancer - Lee visited and interviewed him before his death.
Synopsis / Background
- Lee Strobel had a medical emergency and a near-death experience
- What happens next? What happens if I close my eyes and don’t open them again in this world.
- Quest for Immortality: fear of death, the pursuit of a legacy through “immortality project.” People will commit heinous acts in an attempt to be remembered forever.
- Search for the Soul: does the soul survive physical death? What is the evidence we have a soul and that it can survive?
- Lee talks about attending a Rolling Stone and Tina Turner concert in the 1980s and comes to the conclusion that “you just had to be there” because words can’t describe it.
- Lee admits that he was skeptical about near-death experiences.
- Near-Death Experience: interviews with people who went through them and have researched them.
- The commonality in accounts is a life review where individuals get to relive portions of their lives or see what is happening during the time they were dead.
- Lots of dissenting voices in the Christian community on near-death experiences.
- The pursuit for proof of God - would a loving Father really hide Himself and require blind belief from children He loves so much?
- Concept of hell - heaven is a gift only if we are willing to receive it. Consequently, being separated from God during life means you will be separated from Him for eternity.
- Hell is not a torture chamber, it’s torment to live an eternity without God’s presence in our lives.
- What is faith? Biblical faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence points in - it’s very logical and rational.
- Jesus has the answers about the afterlife because He experienced it.
- The Case for Christ: the 4 E’s that support the case for Christ: Execution, Early Reports, Empty Tomb, Eyewitness. Execution (Christ was truly dead after the crucifixion); Rose from the dead (Early reports within months of execution from those who witnessed it); Empty tomb (opponents of Jesus even admitted it was empty, tried to explain away why it was empty); Eyewitness (9 ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, about the encounter with Risen Christ).
- Edge of Eternity: Luis was anxious to go and he wasn’t afraid of death. Loss of contact, loss of the relationship, those of us who are left behind.
- Attacks by Satan at the very end of your life tempt you to question the decisions you’ve made throughout life.
- Natural to mourn the loss of physical, earthly life.
Themes
- People fear death and try to compensate by leaving a legacy
- Distractions of this world help people avoid thinking about death
- Can science and belief in God coexist? Does free will exist?
- “To be a thinking person is to live out what it means to be made in the image of God”
- How do these near-death experiences intersect with what the Bible says?
- Christian leaders hesitate to discuss hell because it creates a lot of fear
- Doubts whether we are actually loved and every person wants to be loved - it’s up to us to open our hearts to God to let His love in and reveal that to others
Bible Verses
- Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” – Luke 23:43 (NIV)
- We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. – 2 Corinthians 5:8 (NIV)
- Jesus wept. – John 11:30-40 (NIV)
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MY THOUGHTS ON THIS BOOK
The Case For Heaven - Movie - Lee Strobel - MY REVIEW
The movie, The Case For Heaven is based on the book by the same title by Lee Strobel. In this movie/documentary, Strobel will answer the fearful questions on most of the minds of everyone today. Is there life after death, and Is Heaven real? Lee Strobel explores the evidence on the afterlife, as well as interviewing experts on the subject, and people who have had near death experiences. Through in-depth study in God Word and through his interviews, Lee Strobel finds substantial evidence that there is a real Heaven where those who know the Lord will go when they die. And we don't have to fear death and what will happen. God has it all under control. We trust Him.
I have read several of Lee Strobel's books but this is the first movie I have had the honor of watching. I thoroughly enjoyed The Case for Heaven. I learned so much watching this film. I've never feared or wondered about Heaven, but it was sometimes fearing death and what it would be like the moment you breathed your last breath and entered Heaven. I am so glad that this movie gave me insights into so many things I've always wondered, and helped me understand why I was fearing Heaven. I want this movie and book because it will be an awesome resource to keep going back to.
Probably my favorite part of the movie was the recording of the last words to Lee Strobel from the late pastor and evangelist Luis Palau. Palau was in his last stages of life on earth, and he was ready for Heaven, no fear of death because he knew he would meet the Lord in Heaven. And the most important part of the movie was when Strobel, and the others pointed those watching to Jesus. Explaining that the only way to go to Heaven to meet Jesus when we die is through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and we must believe in Him for our salvation. I am giving this wonderful and so much needed film Five Stars and I wish I could give it more.
This is a well thought out and produced movie, one that I feel is so important to our world today, and I plan to make sure everyone I know and others around the world that I can reach understand that Heaven IS REAL and we can think about death without the fear of the unknown. I am pointing everyone I can to this amazing movie and the clear details it teaches. I want to encourage everyone who reads my review to check out this movie for you and your family, then pass along the information so that others will watch this as well.
Many thanks to Pure Flix for providing a sample of the product for this review. Opinions are 100% my own.
RECOMMENDED READING
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Buy Links
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Many thanks to Pure Flix for providing a sample of the product for this review. Opinions are 100% my own.
