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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! Annotation: Written by the son of missionaries for his own children, THE SHACK has become an unforeseen bestseller. Riding a wave of both rapturous word-of-mouth praise and sharp criticism, it has become a significant novel in the Christian community. The premise is simple and powerful, like a tale from the Bible itself: Mackenzie Phillips, a former seminary student, is crippled with grief over the brutal abduction and murder of his young daughter four years ago. When he receives a summons to the mountain shack where his daughter was killed, he is suspicious, but eventually discovers that he has been called to a private meeting with God, with each part of the Holy Trinity appearing in different guises. Author William P. Young uses novelistic devices to make Christian values easily understood and, more significantly, deeply felt. However, his book has stirred up controversy in its casual and modernized depiction of God, and Young's occasional disregard for Church orthodoxy.
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5 of 5 One book everyone needs to read Friday, April 18, 2008gitmofish@aol.com from Jacksonville, FL
This book is unbelievable! It has so much insight; it was like reading Revelations, but for the hear and now. I'm getting 10 more to give away now and I'll get more when I run out of those. This is one book everyone needs to read.
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful. 5 of 5 A life changing book Thursday, February 28, 2008A Reader from Henning, TN This is the third order I'm placing because I just have to give one to everyone!! It's hard to explain how important this book is in a world full of hurt and questions about its source as well as our place in this world. You will never regret reading this book and I challenge you to read it just once!!
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5 of 5 IT WILL TOUCH YOUR HEART Saturday, January 12, 2008A Reader from CROSSVILLE, TN A FRIEND LOANED US A COPY TO READ. I JUST ORDERED 10 TO GIVE AWAY AS GIFTS. BEST BOOK WE'VE READ IN OVER A YEAR.
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