by Mark Shaw | Feb 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Guest post by Mary Shaw “Because it feels like an island sometimes…” We often hear people on the front lines of ministry to those struggling with addiction say they definitely are in need of help and especially encouragement. If you are committed to a genuinely...
by Mark Shaw | Feb 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Mark Shaw During the past year of 2020, I observed an unusual irony: people ran from a physical illness while running to mental illnesses of all types. The Coronavirus, which caused a very real physical illness called COVID-19, gave most of us great concern in...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Mark Shaw There were many takeaways and life lessons from 2020 but I want to highlight 3 of them now: 1. We’ve Deceived Ourselves Into Believing that We Can Control the World Around Us I read a secular training program that was offering “skills for living in...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
A Testimony from The Addiction Connection Leadership I’ll never forget the most desperate moments of my life… 21 years old and already in drug rehabilitation for a third time. I found myself detoxing from opiates again but the worst part was I had lost all hope....
by Mark Shaw | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Mark Shaw In James 1:27, the Bible says this: Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. Today, our society’s orphans are addicts who have been...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Mark Shaw As I was reflecting upon my reading of the Bible in the book of Mark, I thought about how this principle applies to us today. Let’s examine Mark 7:1-13, which says, Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from...
