by Shirley Crowder | Feb 19, 2019 | TAC Blog
by: Michael Fargarson Sometimes growing a new ministry proves challenging, especially an avant garde ministry such as an addiction ministry. Here are four keys to growing a new ministry at your church or in your community. The First and Foremost Key is Prayer. This...
by Shirley Crowder | Feb 12, 2019 | TAC Blog
by: Justin Usiak The last few months of my life has been very … let’s just say confusing. If you took a sheet of paper and wrote out all the amazing things happening in my life you would run out of lines. From the outside looking in, I have been truly blessed. I mean...
by Shirley Crowder | Jan 29, 2019 | TAC Blog
by: Brenda Payne As a parent who personally understands the heartbreak of addiction, I know the desperation of wanting to help my child while dealing with the desolation of my own heart. With so much at stake, parents need to know where to turn for help. How does the...
by Shirley Crowder | Jan 22, 2019 | TAC Blog
by: Brenda Payne “Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God” (John 6:68-69*). Epidemic! Crisis! Emergency! Dilemma! Plight! These words...
by Shirley Crowder | Jan 15, 2019 | TAC Blog
“Peacocks are male peafowl, a type of pheasant that also includes the female peahen. No matter the species of peacock, these colorful creatures boast impressively sized and patterned plumage that they fan out for display purposes. It isn’t an act of vanity,...
by Shirley Crowder | Jan 8, 2019 | TAC Blog
Dr. Howard Eyrich, ThM, DMin Being a professor of Biblical Counseling at the graduate level requires that I stay abreast of the development in the field of mental health. Consequently, I have read several articles on the DSM-5, the latest revision of the Diagnostic...
by Shirley Crowder | Jan 5, 2019 | TAC Blog
Here’s a review Shirley Crowder did of the book, “Reaching Your Addicted Loved One” by Nick Torres. Book Reviews: Reaching Your Addicted Loved...
by Shirley Crowder | Jan 1, 2019 | TAC Blog
by Bill Hines Christians are called to please God not self. Yet in our struggle with addiction, we become self-focused and provide excuses as to why we are not walking with God. The people of Micah’s day wanted to know what they could do to overcome their heinous sin...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 11, 2018 | Addiction, Current Events, Uncategorized
Until this past week, it had been 13 years since the last Surgeon General warning. That one had to do with pregnancy and drinking alcohol. The advisory this week encourages those taking opioid prescriptions and friends/family of those who take those prescriptions to...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 6, 2018 | TAC Blog
“What makes a resource on the topic of addiction worth reading? In short, a resource that is based in Scripture and balances truth with tools. Dr. Mark E. Shaw takes exactly this approach in his book The Heart of Addiction: A Biblical Perspective by writing to...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 31, 2018 | Addiction, Current Events
I could write a blog or two every single day about someone somewhere who has accidentally overdosed on opioids because of the alarming rates of accidental overdose deaths (note: these are not suicides but accidental deaths due to taking too much of a drug). On the...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 9, 2018 | Media
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 | 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 28, 2018 | Addiction, Current Events
Addiction cuts across all professions and all people because it is a spiritual heart problem. An article about drug abuse in the medical profession of nursing addresses the added temptation nurses have of handling medications. Most cases involving the discipline of...
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 | Jan 11, 2018 | Addiction, Current Events
Imagine you are watching a drug bust into a home and much to your surprise, you recognize the house. It’s your own home! That’s what happened to Kaitlyn Endres as reported in a Jacksonville news article. She said she was surprised about a drug bust in the...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 6, 2018 | Addiction, Current Events
I could blog about a drug-related story at least every day if not three times per day. And each of them is sad in its own way. A very grotesque news report out of Missouri involves a 48 year old meth addict who sexually abused an 8 year old girl and fed her meth. Yes,...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 4, 2018 | Addiction, Current Events
Having visited Egypt twice now, I have learned much about the culture there, especially in the area of addiction. Recently, I read an article about an arrest of a British woman who was carrying a lot of Tramadol, a widely abused drug in Egypt. Tramadol is cheap and...
by Mark Shaw | Dec 24, 2017 | Addiction, Biblical Counseling
For the first time since 1962 and 1963, life expectancy in the United States has DECREASED two years in a row and the opioid crisis is suspected to be the major factor contributing to this dismal news according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). A...
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...
