by Mark Shaw | Aug 1, 2009 | Biblical Counseling, Posts by Mark
Now that you are dead to yourself, you are to be alive to Christ. You are to live for Him! What a difficult life Jesus lived! It was not a life of ease. Jesus was challenged by religious leaders. Jesus said things that people became so angry about that they tried to...
by Mark Shaw | Jul 25, 2009 | Biblical Counseling, Posts by Mark, Scripture, Truth in Love Staff
I wrote The Heart of Addiction for one primary purpose: to glorify God by pointing people to Christ and His Word for the answer for all types of “addictions.” Glorifying God means honoring His Word which is THE most powerful weapon in overcoming any and...
by Mark Shaw | Jul 22, 2009 | Biblical Counseling, Posts by Mark
I hear people and even counselors say, “Her perception is her reality.” While that is a half-true statement, it is not wholly truthful. People believe lies. People deceive themselves. I do it, too, sometimes! None of us are immune to falling prey to...
by Mark Shaw | Jun 29, 2009 | Biblical Counseling, Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff, Vs. Psychology
A friend told me that Tozer used to say that the “prevailing winds often blow toward hell.” What he meant is that popular opinion of the majority are often WRONG spiritually speaking. As Christians, we are to be called out, holy, pure, and different from...
by Mark Shaw | Jun 24, 2009 | Devotions, Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
I posed the question: “Is God ever thankful?” in an earlier post. Now, I’m posing the question “Is God ever disappointed?” Certainly, God is not sad as humans are sad. If God knows everything that ever was, is, and ever will be, then how...
by Mark Shaw | Jun 19, 2009 | Biblical Counseling, Posts by Mark
I get a lot of encouraging emails from people who read my books and I’m so thankful for the encouragement since the message is so counter-cultural against the thinking of this modern age: “addiction is NOT a disease” but is rather a sin nature...
