Revisiting your own Shack
January 21, 2011 in Reviews
Revisiting your own Shack
Fergus Ryan
The Shack is the story of Mack and his great sorrow and terrible guilt at the violent loss of his youngest daughter Missy (I won’t expose too much of the fast-moving plot). Mack travels to the place of the terrible events, a remote mountain shack, only to meet there God-in-Trinity, who leads him through the very darkest of his painful places, revealing a radical picture of God and evil that overturns his traditional church-taught views, and bringing healing and forgiveness in the light of this new relationship with the Triune God.
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