In the movie The Seeker a young boy is a chosen one who is to find signs hidden throughout time, which will help fight against the encroaching darkness. . . . [I]n the movie, each sign that the boy is to find is known as a fractal. When I heard the term fractal, right away I realized that I had heard that same term somewhere else recently. . . . I remembered where I had heard it, The Shack.
Mack Philips took his children on a camping trip. The boys wanted to squeeze one last canoe ride in before the trip home. Mack rushes to help, when their canoe capsizes. That's when the unspeakable happened! Mack's youngest daughter was abducted by a child predator. After a massive search, evidence of Missy showed up at an abandoned cabin. Although they never found her body, everyone knew the worst had happened. For the next four years "a great sadness" fell over Mack and his family, until a note from God showed up in his mailbox. What happens next will move you to a greater understanding of God's unfailing love for us all.
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After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions -- and finds unexpected answers -- in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller.When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that's supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment, he arrives on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.
Wm. Paul Young was born a Canadian and raised among a Stone Age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of former New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult and now enjoys the "wastefulness of grace" with his family in the Pacific Northwest. He is also the author of The Shack, Cross Roads, and Eve.
Because of the sheer volume of error and because of the importance of the doctrines reinvented by the author, I would encourage Christians, and especially young Christians, to decline this invitation to meet with God in The Shack. It is not worth reading for the story and certainly not worth reading for the theology. -- Tim ChalliesAsk a Question▼▲ Have a question about this product? Ask us here.Find Related Products▼▲Books, eBooks & Audio >> Fiction >> Suspense & Intrigue
The powerful story found in The Shack written by Wm. Paul Young stole the hearts of millions and rocketed to fame by word-of-mouth, making it a phenomenon in publishing history. Now, The Shack: Reflections for Every Day of the Year provides an opportunity for you to go back to the shack with Papa, Sarayu, and Jesus. This 365 day devotional selects meaningful quotes from The Shack and adds prayers writer by W. Paul Young to inspire, encourage, and uplift you every day of the year.
Mack has had a troubled childhood; due to his father's alcoholism and aggression, Mack left home at 13. This experience leaves him with little faith in God. However, in his twenties he settles down in Oregon with a woman named Nan, who has such devout and personal faith in God that she calls him Papa. Mack and Nan have five children: Jon, Tyler, Josh, Kate, and Missy. One summer, Mack decides to take Josh, Kate, and Missy on a camping trip. They stay at a campground for a few days, and meet another family and a couple who are camping in the same area. On the last morning of their trip, Josh and Kate go out canoeing and flip their canoe. While Mack swims out to save Josh, Missy is abducted. When Mack cannot find Missy after rescuing Josh, the police are called and an investigation is launched. The recovery of a ladybug-shaped pin with five dots at the camp site ties Missy's abduction to a serial killer called the Little Ladykiller, and the dress she was wearing on the day of her abduction is found at a shack hidden in the woods nearby. After weeks of searching, no body is recovered.
Mack's family goes on with their lives, though Mack experiences what he calls The Great Sadness, and his daughter Kate becomes more closed off and sullen. One snowy day while Nan, Josh, and Kate are at Nan's sister's house, Mack receives a letter inviting him back to the shack. The letter is signed with the name Papa and has no stamp or return address. Mack decides that it must be either a prank or from Missy's killer, so he decides not to tell Nan. However, he becomes more curious over the next week and decides to go to the shack to confront whatever is there, be it God or a prankster of some kind.
When Mack gets to the shack, there is nobody else there. When Mack sees the faded bloodstain where Missy's dress was found, he starts to cry and smash furniture. He falls asleep on the floor. When he wakes up, he decides to go back home, but after walking a few steps away from the shack, his surroundings suddenly change from snowy winter to warm, sweet-smelling spring. The shack is replaced by a beautiful cabin on the edge of a lake. Inside the shack, he meets a black woman named Papa, an Asian woman named Sarayu, and a Middle Eastern man, Jesus. Together, they are God. Mack spends the weekend at the shack having conversations with the three of them, and in the process he learns to love and trust God. He also works through his guilt and anger at his father and Missy's killer.
At the end of the weekend, he decides to return to his family. While he is driving home, he gets in a car crash. He is unconscious for a few days, and he acknowledges that people may not believe his story about what happened at the shack because of the accident. However, Willie and Nan tell him that they believe him, and the knowledge that Mack gained during his time at the shack allows the police to recover Missy's body and catch the Little Ladykiller.
Mack decides that it must be either a prank or from Missy's killer or some sort of divine message so he decides not to tell Nan. However, he becomes more curious over the next week and decides to go to the shack to confront whatever is there, be...
The book is based on the story of a man named Mackenzie (goes by Mack) and his encounter with the godhead following a horrible tragedy where his daughter (Missy) was brutally murdered in an old shack after being abducted during a family vacation. Although Young tackles some very difficult subjects related to human tragedy, in his attempt to point people to God, he instead points people to an African-American woman named Papa (who transformed at one point into a gray-haired man), a middle-aged man named Jesus who was of a Middle-Eastern descent, and a small woman of Asian descent named Sarayu. This is where things derail from the biblical theology tracks in an epic train wreck. 2ff7e9595c
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