Colton Burpo's All-American Heaven

Rev. Todd Burpo visits the dying, is a volunteer firefighter, coaches high school wrestling and also installs garage doors, but Todd is up to his eyeballs in bills and there’s no relief in sight, especially with his family’s recent medical expenses. Why would someone who actually trained to be a servant of the Lord and who’s giving a bazillion percent to his community, family and God have to scrape so hard just to get by? And why would he have kidney stones, a broken leg and finally, why would his 4-year-old son Colton get a burst appendix?

Heaven is for Real, which earned $21.5 million in its first weekend, isn’t about young visionary Colton or angels or even God. It’s about Rev. Burpo’s ongoing exisential crisis. He’s living in an America he didn’t anticipate where he’d have to hustle all day and still be in debt; be the pastor of a church and get paid pennies for it; and not have health insurance.