by Mark Shaw | Aug 1, 2024 | Announcements, TAC Blog
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...
by Shirley Crowder | Oct 8, 2020 | Addiction, Announcements, Ministry News
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...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 7, 2018 | Addiction, Announcements
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...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 26, 2018 | Addiction, Announcements, Answers, Biblical Counseling, Current Events
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...
by Mark Shaw | Oct 26, 2017 | Addiction, Announcements, Biblical Counseling
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...
by Mark Shaw | Jul 25, 2017 | Addiction, Announcements, Biblical Counseling
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...