by Mark Shaw | Oct 15, 2013 | Announcements, Church Life, Marriage, Vs. Psychology
True story from this past Sunday, October 13, 2013: http://m.christianpost.com/news/pastor-ron-carpenter-reveals-wifes-mental-illness-adultery-in-heart-wrenching-sunday-confession–106594/ First of all, I’m truly sad. I’m sad about the situation, sad...
by Mark Shaw | May 28, 2013 | Announcements, Biblical Counseling, Vs. Psychology
This insightful article by Paul Tautges utilizing Jonathan Holmes’ great work tells us that there is trouble in the psychiatric/psychological world: Downplaying the DSM – Psychiatry’s ‘Bible’ When the National Institute of Mental Health...
by Mark Shaw | May 24, 2013 | Addiction, Announcements, Scripture, Vs. Psychology
Read this article from the NY Times about the psychiatric bible’s expansion of the definition of addiction: http:////www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/us/dsm-revisions-may-sharply-increase-addiction-diagnoses.html?_r=3&emc=eta1& One telling quote from the...
by Mark Shaw | Apr 28, 2013 | Vs. Psychology
May 9, 2013, is National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day and there is a push by pharmaceutical companies and the DSM-53 (or DSM-5 but it seems like 53 because it is always reinventing itself) to get more kids on psychotropic medications due to mental...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 25, 2013 | Answers, Vs. Psychology
I love our Savior: Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13) What greater love can someone offer another person than to lay down His life and that’s precisely what Jesus did for sinners which includes...
by Mark Shaw | Oct 15, 2012 | Uncategorized, Vs. Psychology
In Mark 6:7-13, Jesus sent His disciples out two by two with specific instructions: And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 8 He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no...
