The Healer's Heart: A Modern Novel of the Life of St. Luke

The Healer's Heart: A Modern Novel of the Life of St. Luke

A contemporary look at the spiritual journey of a doctor named Luke thatÂ thoughtfully brings the Gospel physician into our 21st-century world.Â

If you have no cause worth dying for, do you have a reason to live?

While sorting through family papers following his fatherâ€™s massive stroke, Dr. Luke Tayspill, Yale Medical Schoolâ€™s top infectious disease specialist, stumbles across a manuscript written decades earlier by his beloved grandfather. The book bears an ominous title, The Deaths of Lukas Tayspillâ€”not death, but deaths.

A closer inspection reveals that the book is about three characters with the same name. The first two Lucas Tayspills were 19th century Quakers who suffered martyrsâ€™ deaths. The third storyâ€”set in the futureâ€”ends abruptly with the arrival of a Dr. Lucas Tayspill in a plague-ridden, war torn African land. Was his grandfather foretelling Lukeâ€™s own life storyâ€”and prophesying his death?

Luke sets out on a deeply personal journey to Sierra Leone. But his pilgrimage to understand death leads to a powerful and unexpected encounter with the essence of life. Will Luke fulfill his grandfatherâ€™s vision?
Country USA
Manufacturer WaterBrook
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2006-02-21
EANs 9781578569137

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