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 | May 26, 2017 | Addiction, Answers, Biblical Counseling
Our featured Booklet this week is Mark Shaw’s Hope and Help for Gambling, Focus Publishing, Bemidji, MN, 2007. Mark, as a part of a team of biblical counselors in Birmingham, AL, decided to write short helpful booklets to provide a starting point for those they...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 25, 2013 | Answers, Vs. Psychology
I love our Savior: Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13) What greater love can someone offer another person than to lay down His life and that’s precisely what Jesus did for sinners which includes...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 23, 2011 | Answers, Uncategorized
I love the ministry of the Word, especially in the biblical counseling room. Is preaching as effective as biblical counseling? Richard Baxter, a Puritan, stated that thirty minutes of private, pastoral conversation may accomplish more than 10 years of public...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 14, 2011 | Answers
So much in Christianity today is not based on Christ’s teachings as much as it’s based upon the ideas and theories of mankind. Colossians 2:8 states: “See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 2, 2011 | Addiction, Answers
What does the world say? The irrational behavior that I do MUST be compulsive– I see it destroying my life and the lives of the ones I love the most, yet I keep doing the same thing over and over. It’s GOT to be a disease beyond my control because I WANT...
