About the Book

Book: Heaven: Experience the Extraordinary

Author: Tony Stoltzfus

Genre: Christian Fiction

Release Date: October  3, 2025

At the very edge of heaven, beyond pain and death, the Great Leap waits for you…

Dive in with physicist Amanda for a full-on immersion in a breathtaking, mind-bending new world that’s far, far better than you ever imagined! Gravity is optional, so you can fly. Mistakes are impossible, because evil no longer exists. Time is swallowed in the Eternal Now where you never miss out or run short of time. And an intimacy and acceptance we can only dream of on earth is present with everyone you meet, from the very first moment.

And heaven’s God is gloriously, ridiculously good—as comfortable and accessible as your best friend, completely satisfied in you, yet so big that you’ll never run out of adventure, wonder and delight. Marrying scripture, near-death experiences and physics, this profound journey of imagination will transport you into an eternity you’ll never forget.

 

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About the Author

Tony Stoltzfus is the author of 21 books on coaching, life and leadership, including the best-selling Coaching Questions (over 200,000 sold). His latest is Heaven: Experience the Extraordinary—a full-on immersion into life in heaven.

His specialty over 25 years as a professional coach is working with ‘senior leaders in painful transitions’, helping them find the goodness of God in the midst of suffering. He’s had plenty of opportunities to meet God in his own adversities, including betrayals, losing access to his life’s work, depression, a home burning down in a forest fire, and more. His message through it all is, “there is nothing that can happen to you that God won’t make something beautiful of.”

Tony has launched or co-launched several coach training organizations, including Leadership MetaFormation and Coaching Mission International. He has trained and certified thousands of Christian coaches, and been recognized by CCNI for pioneering contributions to the Christian coaching field. He is the developer of the Encounter Coaching approach, which transforms the emotional brain by making Jesus a live participant in the coaching conversation.

Tony lives in Redding, CA with his wonderful wife of 37 years, a dog that is a sucking void of emotional need, and a constantly-breaking sprinkler system.

More from Tony

“If people could spend just one day in heaven, they’d give anything to go back…”

Sounds right, doesn’t it? Then what would it take for people to have that experience on earth (without, of course, the messy detail of having to die in the process)?

The surprising key is in that word, ‘experience.’ Experience is the realm of your emotional brain. That side of you that thinks in pictures, stories, and feelings—not in sterile words and detached, rational concepts. Give people a story that transports them to heaven, that lets them feel timelessness, soar in the gravity-optional skies of the Beautiful Land or fall into the all-encompassing embrace of the lover of their soul, and maybe, just maybe, they’d give up anything to go!

The book, Heaven: Experience the Extraordinary, is that story. Join physicist Amanda as she finds herself on the other side, in an astonishing, mind-bending universe where evil has been so completely stamped out that no one remembers it ever existed. In this world built of light, gravity is optional—you can sky-dive without a parachute. Conversations are spirit-to-spirit, with no chance of misunderstanding. You travel at the speed of thought. And heaven’s extra dimensions let Jesus be everywhere at once—so you never have to wait to spend time with him!

For those who’ve experienced loss or grief in this life, it’s a heaven that holds the power to make ALL things well. You’ll weep with Amanda as the devastation of losing both parents as a teen is brought to light; but then rejoice when the Man of Light enters every painful memory, washing her heart clean. You’ll see how prayers and acts of kindness done in secret echo down through generations, joining all of us in a Great Tapestry of connections. Meet the mother of an autistic child, and see how the great sacrifices that circumstance drew from her made them both Great Ones in heaven. Learn how Jesus worked behind the scenes to make the man who betrayed Amanda’s father into one of his dearest friends.

And when Amanda learns that her mom has chosen not to come, discover how heaven makes even THAT well.

And yet this heaven is still, always, more! Join a flash-mob gathered to revel in unrestricted joy. Breathe under water in the River of Life. Garden with an angel, and make a plant grow simply by speaking to it. Travel through time to relive any memory in your life, whenever you want.

Heaven is beyond comprehension—but not beyond imagination! And when we give ourselves permission to imagine the unthinkable, the seed of heaven gets lodged deeply in our hearts.

Author Interview

• What is your favorite genre of books? Why?
  For the last few years, I’ve read over 100 obscure specialist books on first-century culture and daily life, with titles like Diseases of the Ancient Greek World, Paul and First Century Letter-Writing and Traditions of the Rabbis in the Era of the New Testament (a commentary on the Mishnah). The project was visualizing scenes in the New Testament—reading the Bible with the emotional brain instead of with your head. I’ve got multiple study groups still going on that – great fun!
• Are you a one project at a time author or do you have multiple projects going at once?
  Most of my writing life I’ve been running an organization at the same time, so my writing is interspersed with meeting with life coaching clients, teaching multi-day workshops, office communication, etc. For me, the process of writing a book starts with experiencing it in life (like coaching a client through a certain experience), then after multiple experiences codifying it into something I can use as a trainer, then finally putting it down on paper. This works both for non-fiction content, personal stories, and themes in a work of fiction like Heaven: Experience the Extraordinary—the ability to work out the language by trying it out on people in real settings means by the time I write it down I know both what I want to say and how I say it.
• How has your life experience helped in your writing journey?
  The heaven book has many vignettes (and even a few whole chapters) based on experiences in my life or the lives of those I’ve worked with. I have thousands of hours of coaching experience working with people in their most difficult challenges in life, so when it comes to describing a character’s inner world, I have a ton of experiences and stories to draw on.
• What is the funniest thing to happen in the process of writing one of your books?
  This is a bit of an oblique answer, but I’ve done a lot of free writing (like for the heaven stories I describe under question 6) and I’ve gotten used to interesting revelations coming in the process of writing—where I write something and say to myself, ‘Hey, I’ve never thought of that before!’
• Where do you find your greatest inspiration?
  For this topic, I took an audacious step of faith about 10 years back, when I told everyone coming to a workshop that I would interview all 30 of them for an hour each on their most painful story in life, then rewrite their story as it looked to Jesus from the vantage point of heaven. The month I wrote those stories I got in a mode where it was like I could ask Jesus any question I could think of about heaven and I’d get an answer. I ended up with 80 pages of notes that formed the basis of this book. So I think my greatest inspirations have been my greatest leaps of faith into the unknown.

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Giveaway

To celebrate his tour, Tony is giving away the grand prize of a $150 Amazon Gift Card and a copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

https://gleam.io/FRl5c/heaven-experience-the-extraordinary-celebration-tour-giveaway