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...
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...
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 | May 25, 2017 | Addiction, Announcements, Update
Mark E. Shaw’s author page on Amazon has been updated with a fresh look. Were you aware of how many books and booklets he has publised? What a gift the Lord has entrusted to him! As his wife, I am so thankful for the many people that we hear of almost daily who...
by Mark Shaw | Feb 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Watch this five minute cartoon on YouTube that pokes holes in the circular reasoning and real comments made in the self-help industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5-Q0lJTYek The clip is called “AA don’t quit before the miracle.” Prepare to laugh...
