Blessed Child

Name: Blessed Child
Brand: Harper Christian
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Author: Ted Dekker
ISBN: 9780785240198

Author: Ted Dekker, Bill Bright

Series: Caleb Books Series

Narrator: Henry Kramer

Unabridged: 12 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 03/03/2020

Categories: Fiction, Christian Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Supernatural

Synopsis

One orphaned boy. A desperate race to keep him alive. And powers that are beyond comprehension. “Whoever said a straightened hand was more dramatic than a healed heart anyway?”A young orphaned boy was abandoned and raised in an Ethiopian monastery. He has never seen outside its walls—at least, not the way most people see. Now he must flee or die.But the world beyond is hardly ready for a boy like Caleb.When relief expert Jason Marker agrees to rescue Caleb from the monastery, he unwittingly opens humanity’s doors to an incredible journey filled with political intrigue and peril. Jason and Leiah—the French-Canadian nurse who escapes the monastery with him—quickly realize Caleb’s supernatural power to heal. But so do the boy’s enemies, who will stop at nothing to destroy him. Jason and Leiah fight for Caleb’s survival while the world erupts in debate over the source of the boy’s power.In the end nothing can prepare them for what they discover.Book one in the Caleb duology:Blessed ChildA Man Called BlessedBook length: approximately 100,000 words

About Bill Bright

Prior to his death in 2003, Dr. Bill Bright put into book form what he regarded as the 10 most vital principles every Christian should know and live by. The result is The Joy of Knowing God, a "simply powerful" 10-book series of Bright's most dynamic messages on successful Christian living.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jamie on November 06, 2021

Well done ted Dekker and Bill Bright! This was an amazing, inspirational and very moving story! This book had me grinning from ear-to-ear in one chapter and eyes nearly welling up with tears in another. This book focuses on young Caleb. A boy rescued from a monastary that is under attack in Ethiopia......more

Goodreads review by Jeanette on August 29, 2009

This is an excellent book. It was recommended to me by a big Ted Dekker fan after I complained about feeling "cheated" at the end of Dekker's book Thr3e. He said that if I were only going to read one Dekker book, it should be Blessed Child, written with Bill Bright (founder of Campus Crusade for Chr......more

Goodreads review by Denae on June 09, 2009

Towards the middle, I was getting annoyed with how little unpredictability there was. I was ready for a big ending. TD and BB delivered beautifully. Caleb kept getting popular and healing over and over at first, then he started losing it, was poisoned, shot, abducted, and shot. I loved how innocent a......more

Goodreads review by Josh on January 14, 2022

You probably didn’t know that Ted Dekker owes part of his career to Tim LaHaye and the Left Behind franchise. As the Left Behind series was booming the late 1990s, Campus Crusade for Christ founder Bill Bright had a conversation with Tim LaHaye where LaHaye pushed him to write fiction. Or, you know,......more

Goodreads review by Bethany on September 28, 2016

This was a splendid, powerful, and challenging novel. Definitely five stars—no complaints whatsoever! The plot of Blessed Child follows an orphan boy who was raised in an Ethiopian monastery his whole life. He had never been outside it except for when he was a very young baby but he is forced to flee......more