The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1880 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
ASIN: 0964729237
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Product Description
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!
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 The Shack November 22, 2008
The Shack was a truly inspiring book and could be read many times and glean something more each time.
 The Shack November 22, 2008
Many of my friends really enjoyed this book. I got half way through it and just couldn't get into the story. I just couldn't grasp the authors concept of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I didn't finish reading the book.
God...not just for Christians anymore!!!!! November 22, 2008
After having God (in a Christian context) used as an excuse for sexual, emotional and physical abuse of my sibling and myself, it has taken me years to form a relationship with the Divine that makes sense to me. More folks need to be challenged to step out of the thorny box that modern day christianity places them in. We need spirituality, not doctrine wrapped up in snowy white garments meant to make us into well mannered, reasonably odor free religious consumers. "Remember, Jesus loves a giver," so if you find this material offensive, run back to your congregation, dig deep into your wallet or pocketbook and get busy purchasing a sense of serenity and security. If you are up to accepting a broader and yes, more spiritual point of view, then read this book.
Makes You Think November 22, 2008
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While I disagree with some passages of this book because they closely mirror the "gospel of inclusion" that I've heard in other places, I found this book to be thought provoking and it changed my fundamental view of God. It helped me to fully understand the consequences of man's fall in a way that I don't think I did before. It is also an interesting depiction of the Trinity. The healing of Mack's pain was amazing and I found some healing in it as well. This is an unconventional portrait of God and His love and a truly beautiful story. I highly recommend it.
Best book I have read in a long time! November 22, 2008
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This was an amazing book, one of the best I have read in a long time. Many people may not agree with all of it, i dont think that was the intention of this book. This book opened my eyes to why bad things happen in this world. It really got me to think about what I believed. I finnished this book in three days!
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