by Mark Shaw | May 14, 2008 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
The Holy Spirit. Any biblical counselor who is worth his/her salt knows that only God can change the heart of mankind. Biblical counselors are merely “water fountains” and the “Water” that springs forth through the biblical counselor is the...
by Mark Shaw | May 12, 2008 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
In May, you will likely have an opportunity to attend an academic graduation ceremony. Let it be a reminder to you that the only “graduation” that really matters is the one from this life into eternity. Graduation can be defined as “to advance to a...
by Mark Shaw | May 10, 2008 | Truth in Love Staff
In Honor of Birmingham Theological Seminary’s FIRST GRADUATING CLASS in Doctor of Ministry in Biblical Counseling. Mark E. Shaw started his seminary training as a BTS extension student in 2001 while living in Mobile, Alabama, by traveling weekly to Montogomery...
by Mark Shaw | May 9, 2008 | Truth in Love Staff
For as long as I can remember my mother has signed every Christmas, Birthday and Special Occasion card with this verse from the book of Jeremiah. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you,...
by Mark Shaw | May 9, 2008 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
Like many Christians, I am so thankful for the Bible. It is the Word of God. It is the Truth. If we really understood how “life-giving” this God-inspired Book is, we’d value it more by reading it, studying it, memorizing it, and sharing it with...
by Mark Shaw | May 8, 2008 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
Please welcome aboard my dear brother and servant of the Most High – Jason Cooke! Jason is working on NANC certification for biblical counseling and will continue to develop into an extraordinary biblical counselor in coming years. Jason understands what...
by Mark Shaw | May 4, 2008 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
We are so grateful for the 10 volunteers who continue to work hard at moving this ministry forward. We have been able to serve 25 people in merely 8 days of providing biblical counseling at 2 church locations. We have 4 marriages that are healing/reconciling and have...
by Mark Shaw | May 3, 2008 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
Today, a person we were privileged to counsel repented and trusted in Christ alone for eternal life!!!!!!!!!!!! We are not going to stop there as now we are going to pair this person with a more mature believer for discipleship in continued counseling meetings! This...
by Mark Shaw | May 2, 2008 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
I urge you to go to our “Statement of Faith” page to read the TIL Core Values. We try to keep things simple at TIL (which is very difficult to do these days); however, I think these core values are quite simple yet powerful nonetheless. We cannot take...
by Mark Shaw | May 1, 2008 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
We are seeing the Lord’s Hand of blessing upon this ministry daily! Recently, one person that we have been working with now has a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ by God’s grace!!!! WOW. What a blessing for us to see fruit so early in this...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 19, 2008 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
Since our ministry kicked off on March 28th with volunteers, here are some of the stats in our first month of operation. Understand we have only counseled a total of 5 days in that month because of limited resources. Nonetheless, here are the exciting stats to date...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 19, 2008 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
We are up and running in the Clay community now on Wednesdays! There are some great volunteers helping me to biblically counsel individuals, couples, and families out in that area. If you desire help and live in that area, please call 205-910-0085 to set up an...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 17, 2008 | Truth in Love Staff
What a blast I have had this week being surrounded by pastors and church planters looking to serve God all over the world! Our church, www.churchofthehighlands.com hosted this year’s ARC Conference. The Association of Related Churches is believing God to plant...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 17, 2008 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
Had a VERY productive day today – my first official day as a full-time Truth in Love “employee.” It’s been great! We are already seeing fruit in our ministry as one family we ministered to today is RECONCILING their marriage after a...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 11, 2008 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
There are few better ways to kick off this ministry than what happened today: a national radio interview about my booklet called Hope and Help for Video Game, TV, and Internet “Addiction”! Mr. Vic Eliason interviewed me during the one hour program about...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 5, 2008 | Truth in Love Staff
So Friday April 4th we had our second Friday of counseling at Philadelphia Baptist Church. God is so good! Mark, Hope and I met before counseling began to discuss the ministry, counseling exams, and various to-do’s. It is exciting to see how God is bringing...
