How do I Help Someone I love Who is Using Drugs or Alcohol? Am I Enabling? Is an Intervention Needed? What do I need to know about Vaping, Fentanyl and Addiction? How do I help my loved one or my fellow church member in an addiction? Why is there such a stigma in the Church…
We are excited to reveal the cover of Advent: Meditations for Addicts. This will be the first book published by The Addiction Connection. The Lord has been gracious to allow us to minister alongside each other for many years, so this project is special in that it is our first writing collaboration. Serving in ministry…
Dr. Mark E. Shaw had the opportunity to be interviewed by Curtis Solomon via the Biblical Counseling Coalition Podcast.Curtis and Mark had a fascinating video discussion of biblical counseling and addictions and covered a lot of ground in this 35 minute or so video: 3 basic heart issues in the struggle to overcome any sin…
Homicides have nearly doubled in Tijuana. 1,744 people died in 2017 and many of them were connected to drug dealing, drug abuse, and addictive choices. These deaths are the unintended consequences of addiction. The world-wide addiction problem could become our modern day bubonic plague that killed 25 million people in under 5 years in Europe…
Today’s announcement by the President that the opioid crisis will now be a national public health emergency will bring heightened awareness to this long-standing problem. That’s the good news. My hope is that the federal government will recognize faith-based entities like the places where I have been employed to be supported. Old approaches have not…
Dr. Shaw recently had the opportunity to teach at the IBCD (The Institute for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship) in California on the topic of his new booklet: Understanding Temptation: The War Within Your Heart In this booklet he discusses three main ideas that will assist any biblical counselor in helping those struggling with addictions: Identify…
Mark E. Shaw’s author page on Amazon has been updated with a fresh look. Were you aware of how many books and booklets he has publised? What a gift the Lord has entrusted to him! As his wife, I am so thankful for the many people that we hear of almost daily who have been…
Glean biblical insights from 23 leading biblical counselors from all over the United States. Some of the writers in this book include Bill Hines, Ed Bulkley, David Tyler, Howard and Pam Eyrich, Herbert Gooden, Jeff Young, Tim Mullet, Alonza Jones, Shirley Crowder, Fred Bucci, Tim Keeter, Kurt Grady, Phil Price, and the list goes on! It was a…
True story from this past Sunday, October 13, 2013: http://m.christianpost.com/news/pastor-ron-carpenter-reveals-wifes-mental-illness-adultery-in-heart-wrenching-sunday-confession–106594/ First of all, I’m truly sad. I’m sad about the situation, sad that Pastor Ron Carpenter and his wife are suffering at their own choices, sad that he lied and faked it – like everything was all right for 10 years without getting help from…
This insightful article by Paul Tautges utilizing Jonathan Holmes’ great work tells us that there is trouble in the psychiatric/psychological world: Downplaying the DSM – Psychiatry’s ‘Bible’ (Jonathan Holmes) When the National Institute of Mental Health announces it is NO LONGER relying upon the DSM, that is a HUGE announcement. It would be like Baptists…
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