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Summary: Can God's Spirit really reside in people? Read this book!
Review: A child-prophet grows into a young man who believes in God. He no longer depends on or delights Him, though. To use the cliche, Caleb has lost his first love. Throw into this coming of age spiritual quest a Raiders of the Lost Ark set of characters and you have a roller coaster of a tale. Jewish zealots want to find the Ark of the Covenant so as to force Israel to destroy the Dome of the Rock and rebuild the Temple. Muslim militants will stop at nothing to destroy the Ark and protect their holy mosque. These opposing forces, and some secondary interests are drawn to Caleb, who unknowingly holds the key to the Ark's location. If all this is not enough to keep the pages turning, Dekker throws in a taut, well-nuanced love subplot. The writing is superior to Blessed Child, as other reviewers have pointed out. Additionally, Dekker has explained how the presence of God can feel in a unique and powerful way. As important as sound understanding and belief can be, the author encourages us to seek true relationship with God. Words like delight, savor, and total love come to mind. We come to understand that walking with God in the kingdom is the treasure worth abandoning all else for. Bottom-line: This is top-notch spiritual writing, that challenges readers to an intelligent, yet deeply emotional relationship with God. Buy, read, discuss, share!
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Summary: Can God's Spirit really reside in people? Read this book!
Review: A child-prophet grows into a young man who believes in God. He no longer depends on or delights Him, though. To use the cliche, Caleb has lost his first love. Throw into this coming of age spiritual quest a Raiders of the Lost Ark set of characters and you have a roller coaster of a tale. Jewish zealots want to find the Ark of the Covenant so as to force Israel to destroy the Dome of the Rock and rebuild the Temple. Muslim militants will stop at nothing to destroy the Ark and protect their holy mosque. These opposing forces, and some secondary interests are drawn to Caleb, who unknowingly holds the key to the Ark's location. If all this is not enough to keep the pages turning, Dekker throws in a taut, well-nuanced love subplot. The writing is superior to Blessed Child, as other reviewers have pointed out. Additionally, Dekker has explained how the presence of God can feel in a unique and powerful way. As important as sound understanding and belief can be, the author encourages us to seek true relationship with God. Words like delight, savor, and total love come to mind. We come to understand that walking with God in the kingdom is the treasure worth abandoning all else for. Bottom-line: This is top-notch spiritual writing, that challenges readers to an intelligent, yet deeply emotional relationship with God. Buy, read, discuss, share!
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Summary: Best of the year!
Review: Best book I've read since The Red Tent swept me off my feet a year ago. Good authors are hard to find these days, but a freind recommended another novel by one of the authors (When Heaven Weeps, Ted Dekker) and I found it captivating and inspiring, so I bought Man Called Blessed on a whim. I am a hard to please, avid reader of fiction, and rarely does a novel move me the way this one did. The characters are rich and the culteral tapsitry is well drawn. The plot is fast paced and hard to interupt once you're drawn in. All aspects of a good story. But it was the journeys of Caleb and Rebecca that impacted me the most. This is the kind of novel that makes you want to take a hammer to your television set and invest your inheritance in a library full of books. Well done!
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Summary: GODS powers
Review: Caleb & family are finally living a free safe life & then...POW it alls comes back from his childhood. book- BLESSED CHILD,read this one 1st. The desert is such a dangerous place & using events right out of todays news makes this a wonderful exciting read...In the end GOD will prevail over evil, if we are lucky.. Dont want to give too much away.. A GREAT MIX OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS, and how they view each other s Gods. Ted Dekker is the best in religious fiction...Two thumbs up for ted !!!!!
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Summary: GODS powers
Review: Caleb & family are finally living a free safe life & then...POW it alls comes back from his childhood. book- BLESSED CHILD,read this one 1st. The desert is such a dangerous place & using events right out of todays news makes this a wonderful exciting read...In the end GOD will prevail over evil, if we are lucky.. Dont want to give too much away.. A GREAT MIX OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS, and how they view each other s Gods. Ted Dekker is the best in religious fiction...Two thumbs up for ted !!!!!
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Summary: Give this about 4 1/2 stars. Still awesome.
Review: Caleb is back! Yet he's lost his child like faith to a point. There were times in this book where I look back at my own life and feel like Caleb. But all in all this was an awesome read and I was once again enlightened by Ted Dekker. What made this 4 1/2 stars was that I looked at it kind of as another ark of the covenant book, but it surprisingly didn't take too much away from the plot or the story, and the heart of this message was every bit as good as any other Dekker read. Ted Dekker never ceases to amaze me. Good stuff!
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Summary: A wonderful read!
Review: Continues where a Blessed Child leaves off. A wonderful story filled with plausible characters and great wonder. Both of these books fill the heart with promise and joy vice evil and corruption. The kind of book to recommend and keep on the shelf to loan or to give as gifts.
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Summary: A wonderful read!
Review: Continues where a Blessed Child leaves off. A wonderful story filled with plausible characters and great wonder. Both of these books fill the heart with promise and joy vice evil and corruption. The kind of book to recommend and keep on the shelf to loan or to give as gifts.
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Summary: Better than the first
Review: I loved Blessed Child. The sequel is even better. This is the fifth Dekker novel I've read, and I must say, he's changed my standard for fiction. Although this story is cleary written from a perspective of faith, the plot and character development are better than most stuff I read from the airport book stores. Passionate and moving. And for the record, my copy didn't have the mistakes that the Publisher Weekly review mentioned above. They must have read a different book or at least an unedited copy. I was suprised they would make mention of it. I highly recommend this book. If you are interested in a riviting story that turns your world on end, read it.
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Summary: Awesome book !
Review: I thoughly enjoyed this work as well as Blessed Child. These guys are great story tellers. You start reading a little slower at the end because you don't want to put it down. I've enjoyed several of Ted Dekkers books and he weaves a story like a master. This one has a great love story in it, too. A great read.
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