by Mark Shaw | Apr 11, 2022 | TAC Blog, Uncategorized
By TAC Team: summarized, and paraphrased from Miss Shirley Crowder and Dr. Mark Shaw’s Podcast Conversation about the book EASTER: Meditations for Addict, available at Amazon April 2022 – Podcast #155 “Easter- Week 5” How Much Did Salvation Cost? All through...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 4, 2022 | TAC Blog, Uncategorized
By TAC Team (based on teaching from Miss Shirley Crowder and Dr. Mark Shaw’s Podcast Conversation)-April 2022 – Podcast #154 “Easter week 4” “Do you know the Jesus about whom you’ve been reading?” “After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 31, 2022 | TAC Blog
By TAC Team (based on teaching from Miss Shirley Crowder and Dr. Mark Shaw’s Podcast Conversation)-March 2022 – Podcast #153 “Easter week 3” What Does “The Lord’s Supper” Mean? – Part 2 of 2 Missed Part 1? Click here to read now The Passover celebration of the Jewish...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 28, 2022 | TAC Blog, Uncategorized
By TAC Team (based on teaching from Miss Shirley Crowder and Dr. Mark Shaw’s Podcast Conversation)-March 2022 – Podcast #153 “Easter week 3” What Does “The Lord’s Supper” Mean? – Part 1 of 2 All through scripture we see that shed blood is required in order for...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 21, 2022 | TAC Blog
By TAC Team John 12:12-13 ESV “The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 15, 2022 | TAC Blog, Uncategorized
by TAC Team EASTER: Meditations for Addicts was written by Dr. Mark E. Shaw and Shirley Crowder and is part of a series along with the book ADVENT: Meditations for Addicts. Shirley is a co-founder of this ministry with Dr. Shaw and serves as The Addiction Connection’s...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 13, 2022 | TAC Blog, Uncategorized
-by TAC TEAM The founder of The Addiction Connection, Dr. Mark E. Shaw, hosted Oliver Underwood of The Damascus House on TAC’s podcast entitled “Habakkuk and Addiction” (#149). Underwood leads a men’s residential program for addiction that is recommended by The...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 12, 2022 | TAC Blog, Uncategorized
Is there anything practical in the Bible to address addiction? What does God’s Word tell us about our modern world’s various modes of getting drunk (pills, fentanyl, weed, heroin, alcohol, etc)? Dr. Shaw hosted Oliver Underwood of The Damascus House on TAC’s podcast...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 2, 2022 | TAC Blog
Hebrews 1:1-4 ESV [1] “1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. 3 He is the radiance...
by Mark Shaw | Feb 24, 2022 | TAC Blog
Can brain surgery solve a person’s addiction problem? Read WORLD Magazine’s February 23, 2022 article by Addie Michaelian here! Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is a new, highly experimental brain surgery that attempts to regulate one’s cravings, or what...
by Mark Shaw | Feb 22, 2022 | TAC Blog
Here are 22 ways you can pray for The Addiction Connection on… “TAC 2’s-day” From Colossians chapter 1 pray these things for each residential and non-residential ministry within TAC’s Network: Increasing in love for all the saints (v.4)...
by Mark Shaw | Feb 14, 2022 | TAC Blog
by Dr. Mark E. Shaw (with TAC Team) The issue of fentanyl is getting significantly worse over time – it killed 40,000 people in 2021. This DEA report is information from the graphs and statistics that the CDC collects (read more). Why is fentanyl on the rise? It is...
by Mark Shaw | Feb 7, 2022 | TAC Blog
By Dr. Mark E. Shaw A Little TAC History Ten years ago, The Addiction Connection officially launched with 12 national leaders in the biblical approach to addiction who met together in Cleveland, Ohio. After more than a year of praying and planning, the ministry began...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 31, 2022 | Addiction, TAC Blog
by Dr. Mark E. Shaw (with TAC Team) Anxiety is all around you. You don’t have to look very hard to see you live in a fallen, broken world. There is a lot to be anxious about. The future is uncertain and full of surprises yet since mankind’s Fall in Genesis, it...
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by Mark Shaw | Jan 24, 2022 | TAC Blog
My days are blue, My nights are black, I have many friends, But none have my back. As I walk this lonely road of shame, I picked up a new friend. I don’t know his name. We start to talk a lot, And get to know each other. I thought to myself, “He should have met my...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 17, 2022 | TAC Blog
God’s Word says: “Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.” – Joshua 21:45 ESV [1] What an awesome thought! Every single one of God’s good promises is kept as opposed to...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 10, 2022 | Addiction, TAC Blog, Uncategorized
Have you heard of the “Dry January” concept? Dry January is the world’s idea of abstaining from alcohol for the first month of the year to help evaluate or break some unhealthy habits. The hope is that you start the new year alcohol free for a time of self-evaluation...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Cross is central to the message of the Gospel. The Addiction Connection (TAC) logo is a symbol intended to start conversations about “The Hope of the Gospel for the Heart of Addiction.” Jude Gavin, son of Dan Gavin of Addictions Victorious, developed the original...
by Mark Shaw | Dec 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
1. We Gathered What a blessing to gather with 130 like-minded women and men at our 5th Annual TAC Leadership Summit to learn from, encourage, and connect with each other this year! To watch the sessions from past Summits, click here! SAVE THE DATE for next year:...
by Mark Shaw | Dec 24, 2021 | TAC Blog
It’s Christmas Eve and yet I cannot get over the fact that fentanyl is reportedly the #1 killer for people ages 18-45 according to the CDC. People seek their usual drug of choice only to discover too late that it was fentanyl laced—that’s what is killing...
