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!
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Intriging:
After reading The Shack, I certainly had alot to think about. This book gives the reader another view on forgiving one self for past mistakes, and forgiving other. The book drew me in from the very beginning, I even read the preface , which I rarely do, and I glad I did, because I would have missed some very important points of the book. I enjoyed it so much I purchased several other copies for family and friends to read.
Restoration/transformation through tragedy:
I received this book as a Christmas gift in 2008. The guy who gave it to me was moved deeply by it. It sat on my bookshelf for quite a while until I picked it up. It took me a while to do so because I thought it would be just an ordinary fictionalized account of a christian guy's struggle with tragedy. While it was just that, the writer does a good job conveying the message that God truly does work in "mysterious ways." Is that a convenient way to deal with tragedy and to seek false comfort? Maybe, maybe... more info
Making You Think Outside The Box:
This is such a well written and thought provoking novel. I enjoyed every second of it and it made me think long and hard about God and what kind of man made rituals and concepts are just installed in us while growing up. I think everyone should read this book once.
Insightful:
This book is amazing! So insightful...really makes you think. Although some of the chapters, events, statements may not totally agree with your religious doctrines, the goal of the book is this: GOD IS LOVE. What better message? I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will read it again and again for inspiration, hope and faith. I recommned it to every one I know.
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