by Mark Shaw | Apr 11, 2009 | Biblical Counseling, Posts by Mark
Thank you all for standing with us for the Bible as sufficient to help us change into the image of Christ! What is counseling but an opportunity to offer people an evaluation of their thinking, speaking, and acting in order to bring about change? That’s simply...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 2, 2009 | Biblical Counseling, Posts by Mark
Thomas Oden wrote that our job is “to lead back the wandering sheep and to cure that which is wounded by the serpent” (Classical Pastoral Care, vol. 3, Baker Publishing, p. 57). This is PRECISELY what our ministry is all about: helping hurting, wandering...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 2, 2009 | Biblical Counseling, Posts by Mark
One of the things I strongly dislike about counseling teens and youths is the parents! Typically, we meet with the parents FIRST before meeting with the child. In most cases, the child is a product of the lack of parenting or poor parenting of mom and dad. It’s...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 24, 2009 | Biblical Counseling, Posts by Mark
Cough syrup is a drug in liquid form. Likewise, alcohol is a drug in liquid form. So why do we think of alcohol differently than we do other drugs? Why does our culture put it into a totally different category? Some say, “alcohol is legal” but so are other...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 20, 2009 | Biblical Counseling, Posts by Mark
Parents are going to pay a price either on the FRONT end or the BACK end for how they teach OR fail to teach their children. If you INVEST your time and energy to discipline your children in the Lord (Eph. 6:4) while they are young, the investment will pay off down...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 7, 2009 | Biblical Counseling, Posts by Mark
It is March 1st in Birmingham, AL, when I wrote this…and it’s snowing for the first time all year. So I thought to myself, what if we had visitors to our city today from Asia and they only came to B’ham today. What would they think about our city?...
