The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Rating:  1178 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
ASIN: 0964729237
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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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 most refreshing, amazing book I have read in years! August 30, 2008
John F. Wallace (San Antonio, Texas)
This is the most refreshing, amazing book I have read in years! You will cry, laugh and shake your head all at once. I don't think any book has ever resonated so deeply with me about the heart of our Creator. One word of caution: The beginning of the story is tragic, so plow through the first 4 chapters....you will be so glad you did!
John The Poet
The Shack August 30, 2008
D. Steady (New Bern, NC)
Excellent book with a lot to think about. Would love to do this with a group and have lots of conversation. It was somewhat hard to get pass the "characters" but after continuing with the words it made sense. You really have to read it to understand. I found it very profound and after reading it almost a month ago I am still thinking about it and have given it to several friends and waiting for them to all finish so we can discuss. Definitely worth the read. It goes very quickly but has a lasting impression.
 Counterfeit? August 30, 2008
Kim Briehl
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It took me awhile to figure out why I was disturbed by this book. After all, we all want fresh insights about our indescribably great God, and the Shack seemed to be delivering. But then things started to seem a little too flippant, and there was a growing sense that "Papa' never judged anyone for anything - just loved them. So we're not supposed to judge (that's scriptural) and 'God' doesn't either! What's wrong with this picture? A loving God has no choice but to judge all that is not holy and good. Yes He redeems it as we walk with Him, but consequences are part of the game. Secondly, on page 136 it says "both evil and darkness... do not have any actual existence". This is the opposite of what the Bible teaches. And the author of evil (do we need to name him?) would like nothing more than for us to carry on as though he did not exist. This is serious stuff here, friends. When I came out of the 'new age' movement, after experiencing some awful spiritual horrors, the one thing I could say I learned, (and I was NOT back to Christianity yet) was "I know there is good and bad". Before, it was all part of good. The Shack has some wonderful truth to it, but to me it is simply like counterfeit money.. so close to the real thing yet of no value. And it DEVALUES the Word of God (remember, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God" John 1) and there's no judgment. Pretty palatable for us creatures. Reminds me of a meal once offered so long ago in a certain garden... in the beginning... Let's not fall for it again.
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON WHO WE THINK GOD IS. August 30, 2008
LITTLE MAGOO (SEMINOLE, FL)
THIS BOOK WAS INTERESTING FROM THE START. IT GOT A BIT WEIRD IN THE MIDDLE, BUT I STUCK WITH IT AND TRULY ENJOYED IT. IT REALLY OPENED MY MIND TO A DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING.
The Shack August 30, 2008
Marcia Fanchin (Clinton, OK)
The Shack
I love it, Could not put it down, recomended it even to strangers.
Founded myself shocked, surprised, with anwsers to question I did not know I had, understanding some things much better than before. And it is not a religious book, it is just a simple novel
Shared with my Pastor and he is taking a step further, taking to church concil to have it as a "Study book" for our congregation. SWEEEEEEET
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