Picturing Heaven: 40 Hope-Filled Devotions with Coloring Pages -- Randy Alcorn

A few weeks ago Tyndale sent a complimentary copy of Picturing Heaven to me to read and review. This is a new devotion book by one of my favorite authors, Randy Alcorn. This book contains short, one-page devotions, and there is a coloring page for each devotion in the book. This book has been encouraging to my daughter and to me. I'm not one who likes to color very much, but my daughter loves it, so I knew this book would be a good one for us to do together. We enjoy reading the devotion and then talking together while we color the corresponding picture for that day's reading. Heaven is a topic I have talked about often with my children over the years, especially when they were younger and first starting to grapple with the fact that they have a mom who is disabled and needs a lot of rest. Picturing Heaven is a great way to learn more about Heaven and start more conversations about life, disability, hope, Jesus, and the life to come. The devotions in Picturing Heaven will help you to set your mind on things above and encourage you to keep an eternal perspective in life. The book is filled with beautiful illustrations, and those who like to color will enjoy coloring the pictures as they reflect on what they have read.

This coloring book is absolutely beautiful. Each page to color is enhanced with gold either the back ground or parts of the picture. The pages before the coloring page has a beautiful Bible verse that represents the picture. I have had a lot of coloring books and use some of the pages framed and on my wall, but. I believe this one is the prettiest that I have seen. It just took my breath when I opened it the first time as the cover is colored in these beautiful colors. The author Randy Alcorn and his team did a marvelous job with this book. As Christmas is coming up this would be a great gift if you have someone that loves to color. Thanks so much to Tyndale Publishing for sending me this book in exchange for my honest review.

Randy Alcorns book "Heaven" helped so much dispelling the traditional views concerning Heaven. i read it years ago. When a loved on was facing death, we read parts of this book together...he wanted to know where he was going, in scriptural detail. Now, a child is grieving over our loss and has her questions. I bought "Heaven, for Kids" and plan to read it with her. I thought adding this beautiful coloring book along with the reading may facilitate conversation about Jesus, His promises and our eternal future in His presence. The coloring book is absolutely beautiful!

I had a lot of fun reading and coloring this book. I enjoyed the variation in what I was coloring, ranging from nature to man made objects and even scripture. I loved meditating on the scripture and devotional I read while coloring the page next to it. It was fun seeing the way Randy Alcorn interpreted the scripture and hearing him describe some of things we have to look forward to in Heaven. I can't wait to get there to see some of the things the Bible talks about, but I am so thankful to know God while I'm here. I can hardly imagine how amazing life will be, but this book gave me several things to ponder about what it will be like. I received a copy of this book from Tyndale Publishers and was in no way forced to post a positive review. All opinions expressed are my own.