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The Shack - William Paul Young on SBE

Erik May 16th, 2008

Paul and The ShackThe author of The Shack, William Paul Young, joins us on Steve Brown Etc. this week to talk about living in a jacked-up world full of pain and loss and…full of a God who loves us. Use one of the options below to listen.

Stories are pouring in about the healing impact of The Shack and, as I write this, the book is #8 on Amazon. Not bad for a book that Young wrote as a gift to his 6 children and was never intended to be published. Join us as we talk about some of the controversy surrounding The Shack, but more importantly, William Paul Young's personal journey and how it shaped the book that is now a phenomenon.

Visit TheShackBook.com for more on the book and visit WindRumors.com for more from Mr. Young.

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22 Responses to “The Shack - William Paul Young on SBE”

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[…] First, Tim over at CRN.Info and Analysis has a short post with several links. Writes Tim, There’s this little book called the Shack that has gotten some people all hot and bothered. If you’re interested in truth rather than rhetoric you might want to amble on over to Steve Brown Etc and listen to the author himself. […]

Jesus Has Left the Building (So Did He Go To The Shack?)… « adventures in mercy May 19th, 2008

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[…] a book by Paul Young. A link on Internet Monk this morning led me to his site and to another one where I listened to an interview with Paul Young by Steve Brown who is apparently a radio talk show … As I listened to Paul talk about the book and his own life, I want to read it more than ever (have […]

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Shirley Stinnett Grant June 8th, 2008

I have been an avid reader for all of my life and I`am 61, The Shack was a very profound opinion of how our relationship could be with our God,It really impacted me as I lost a 21 year old grandson to sucicide in Janurary,I`am writing a book myself and only could pray my book could be half the book as the Shack.God bless you ,Shirley

Linda Hill June 9th, 2008

Never have I read anything that so resonated with my spirit. As a young girl I did not have a good relationship with father, grandfather, etc. They were all abusive and not having a good role model to relate to, it was difficult to accept God as a loving, kind Father that would provide for his family. It was later in my teens that my concept of God changed to that of a loving grandfather in a rockingchair with an old comfortable cardigan sweater. I could crawl up on his lap and he would hold and rock me and whisper such comforting words. As with Willie and his "Papa", God knew just the image that I needed to help turn me around. The loving relationship and mutual respect between Papa, Jesus and Sarayu is as it should be in the body of Christ. Such insight can only come from Holy Spirit. Thank you so much for writing The Shack. It is definately worth the read, worth sharing, worth giving. Linda Hill

Considering Steve Brown and the Shack « Cavman Considers June 10th, 2008

[…] 10, 2008 by cavman Steve Brown interviews William Paul Young about his book The Shack.  Steve says that he initially gave up when the main character got to the shack.  After lots of […]

susana June 13th, 2008

You always crack me Up Steve (Brown). I can never get enough of your humor! (I swear thats why I am here!) But tell me, how can you convince a person whose mentally retarded that they are also senile?(not you!, A relative!) I am related thru marriage to some real douseys! And if it was not for your sound advice, I think I would be losing it, being around THEM! But thank G*D I dont have to live in the same house as them! Just visit them to se if theya re still "kicking" for I would surley have had myself commited to an insane asylum by now just to get away from them! Thanks for YOUR random acts of humor!susana

Mary Ann June 18th, 2008

How wonderful to have such an expansive understanding of our loving God. Yes He exists…..yes He is involved….you can't get more involved than Creator to creature…I especially will remember the line where you said that God's grace working in us to make us truthful souls is a greater miracle than the raising of the dead..it goes against our natural instinct to be truthful with each other and yet what greater grace…thank you, thank you, thank you for this beautiful book.

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Mary B. July 22nd, 2008

With all the wacky things I've seen recently on Christian TV, and all the new age stuff seeping into the church, I was afraid to read "The Shack." While there were things in there that I didn't feel were sound biblically, still it touched my heart. So many of us were raised under the letter of the law, and always feeling the need to be or do good to earn God's love. This book was like a ray of hope that God really may love us right where we're at. What a concept - I think I even feel a some hope that Young could have painted a clear picture of God's love. I'll read it again.

Joy Martin August 8th, 2008

First of all, I love the Steve Brown etc. website!!! The humor you throw in with the "commercials" and your on-going wit are soul-healthy for me :) I read "The Shack" recently and was blown away by it as well. I'm recommending it to everyone I talk to–so much so that they can't believe I could be so passionate about one little book. We desperately need this kind of stuff—I definitely need this kind of stuff. Thank you so much for airing this and your support and encouragement to what God is doing through this. It was refreshing!!!

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Roberto October 8th, 2008

Do we want answers from God? God always has plans ways beyond our understanding or imagination. And HE does as HE wants, HE is wise. I should be sleeping for my training course tomorrow, but instead, I am here at 12 pm listening for the first time, to Steve Brown etc. radio interviews that I came up with in Internet from surfing http://www.newwayministries.org and http://www.ransomedheart.com
And the Spirit is telling me that God really wants to talk to us. I just listen to Steve’s interview with John Eldredge about Walking and Talking with God (not read yet), and when I finished listening to John and Steve I saw the link for William P Young’s interview. I can see it clearly that GOD is looking for a true relationship with each of us, as Eldredge talked about intimacy and “come closer”, and Young talking about his life, his pains, his secrets, etc.
Look at 3 messages I am being surrounded by lately, for me everything is connected:
Read John Eldredge’s Waking the Dead (and eventually read Walking with God)
Read William Paul’s The Shack
Read Larry Crabb’s PAPA Prayer (and other books)
And listen to the 3 of them talk and or the interviews with Steve Brown (Eldredge, Young)
We are being blessed by them. The Holy Spirit is talking to us by them.

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Hughuenot November 19th, 2008

If enough people praise it long enough;
if it sells millions;
if pop theologians and musical artists endorse it;
if Steve likes it;
then it MUST be good! Right?

Freedom, your moniker here, is found only in Jesus Christ who said that he and his father's word are/ is truth (John 14:6 & 17:17).

Anything else, any other conception of God, is not.

No matter how "liberating" it makes you feel,
no matter how "blessed" you feel,
no matter how many people like it,
truth is not validated by numbers or feelings.

You think about that.
Amen.

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