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Meeting God at The shack : a journey into spiritual recovery / John Mark Hicks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hicks, John Mark, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young, William P. Shack.
- Young, William P.
- God in literature.
- Spirituality in literature.
- Trust in God.
- Mental healing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 pages)
- Other Title:
- Journey into spiritual recovery
- Place of Publication:
- Abilene, Texas : Leafwood Publishers, [2017]
- Summary:
- How can wounded people come to believe that God deeply loves them? Many have enjoyed William Young's The Shack , even if they puzzled over the book's actual meaning and theology. While some were quick to dismiss it as fiction, The Shack isn't really fiction at all. It's a modern day parable. Meeting God at The Shack shows hurting people how to read this story with profit and come to know God more fully.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter one: What kind of book is The shack?
- Looking life in the eye
- Chapter two. What is The shack?
- Chapter three: Your shack, my shack
- Chapter four: God, I hate You!?
- Chapter five. Getting a "triune shine"
- Chapter six: Suriving in a colorless world
- Chapter seven: Tuck in the great sadness
- Chapter eight. Gardening with God
- Chapter nine: The eyes of Jesus
- Chapter ten. Forgiving others
- Chapter eleven. Forgiving ourselves
- Chapter twelve: Forgiving God
- Chapter thirteen. Forgiving god: a testimony
- Chapter fourteen. Designed for intimacy
- Encountering God in a fresh way. Chapter fifteen. An African-American, female papa?
- Chapter sixteen. Intimacy with papa: renaming God?
- Chapter seventeen. Three and one: trinitarian heresy?
- Chapter eighteen. Trinity: a circle of love
- Chapter nineteen. An Asian Holy Spirit?
- Chapter twenty.What if God were one of us: Jesus, a dependent human?
- Chapter twenty-one. God and evil: can God be justified?
- Chapter twenty-two. Wraving a tapestry of love: divine providence
- Conclusion
- Chapter twenty-three. Will change your name?
- Chapter twenty-four: You are loved!
- Chapter twenty-five. Faith instead of fear: learning to trust God
- Chapter twenty-six. The circle of love: turning mourning into dancing.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-89112-603-1
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