Blessed Child

Ted Dekker · Bill Bright

Apr 2006 · HarperChristian + ORM

About this ebook

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 Child
  • A Man Called Blessed
• Book length: approximately 100,000 words

Ratings and reviews

I read this book for the first time two summers ago and it really helped me through the struggles I was having with my faith and it really made me convert to Christianity. And it is also just a well constructed and executed book.

love this book. love. Love. LOVE! what an amazing word. Thank You Heavenly Father for Your Word, JESUS! and for giving people ability to write! what an amazing book. have always been a big fan of Ted Dekker. thank you for this read. can't wait to read the next one.

If only we could all have Caleb's faith, what a different world it would be.

About the author

The son of missionaries, Ted Dekker grew up in the jungles of Indonesia. He returned to the United States to attend Evangel College, graduating with a religion and philosophy major. After several years in corporate marketing, he began writing books like Heaven's Wager. Ted and his wife live in the mountains of Colorado with their four children. 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.