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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!
Amazing! Thought provoking!October 15, 2008 If you have ever really considered your personal relationship with the Lord...............read this book! It will take your thoughts of you and the Lord to a greater revelations! So inspiring!
Miracle of a bookOctober 15, 2008 The thing about great truth is that when we read it, no one has to tell us that it's true. We feel it. Yes, the intellect might question if it contradicts traditional teachings, but the heart and soul know what's what. I found this novel to be such a truth. It's certainly one of the most inspiring reads of my life. It's the story of a man whose daughter dies a violent death, but there is definitely nothing tragic about The Shack.
I happened to be visiting family in Los Angeles while I was reading it. One morning in prayer I asked God to use me for his purposes that day. Later I boarded a commuter train, the book in hand, and sat in the first car across the aisle from a black man. He was older and though he smiled, he kept his eyes squinted, as if they'd seen too much. When the train started, I found myself saying out loud to the woman near me, "Which way is the train going? Am I riding backward?" Immediately, the man across the aisle said, "Yes, why don't you come and sit over here." I hesitated only a moment, then rose and sat next to him, my mind uncertain, but not my spirit. At first our words were halting -- two strangers trying to make conversation. When I lifted my book, he asked what I was reading. I told him it was the story of a man who's daughter was killed and it ruined his life, but God saved him. He turned away and was quiet for a moment. Then he looked in my eyes and said his daughter had been murdered and it totally ruined his life. I listened, holding my breath, as he told me the whole story: how she died, about his years lost to drugs, homelessness, and despair. He said he'd recently pulled out of it and made plans for his life. He said he was going to buy a car, drive down south, and visit every relative he had. I looked at my copy of The Shack and said, "I think this book belongs to you." He took it and eagerly started thumbing through. After a while he said, "I never, ever ride the first car on the train." He explained there'd been an accident in which people in the first car died, so he avoided it. He said, "I didn't know why I got on it this time. Now I do. God wanted us to meet." I said, "Yes, I know."
This book is a small miracle God made through William P. Young and he multiplies it through the readers of The Shack. Like Young, I'm an author, and in my latest novel, when one character is asked what he believes, he says, "Everything. If I must choose between believing and not believing, then believing is for me. It seems closer to the truth." I can't say I believe everything just yet, but I believe The Shack.
Read it and be blessed.
J R Lankford, author, The Jesus Thief, The Secret Madonna
Recomending it to a lot of my friendsOctober 15, 2008 I couldn't put it down. It is the only book on dating worth having. It gave me heaps of confidence and a renewed belief in women. I have always loved them, but now I have the confidence to approach them and show them that I do.
Question of How I precieve GodOctober 15, 2008 This book spoke to me of the love of God and put questions in my thinking of HOW DO I Think of God. I also thought about how do I make judgements. I have always wanted to judge with mercy so that I will be judged in the same way. I have not questioned God for the tradedies that occured in my life because I knew that as thinking as a human, I could never understand. As I have lived more years it is easier to accept that God is love and knows how to carry us through this life.
A must readOctober 15, 2008 By far, this is the best book I have ever read. I laughed, I cried, I rejoiced! It will bring a peace to your life that you have never experienced. I think that depending on where you are in your spiritual walk with God and where you are struggling in your own life, this book can be read over and over and something new will jump off the pages to heal you. I can't wait to read it again.
