Request Mark to Speak

Proverbs 22:29 says: Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

Dr. Mark E. Shaw is available to teach and make disciples at churches, conferences, and addiction centers worldwide. Dr. Shaw can serve your organization in the following ways:

  • as a speaker, teacher, or preacher
  • disciple-maker training others in biblical counseling and in addiction counseling
  • biblical counselor with your staff in team counseling (or co-counseling) situations where you can observe and counsel with him
  • as a trainer to help your local church to become certified biblical counselors with the International Association of Biblical Counselors (IABC)
  • as a workshop speaker at NANC approved Counseling and Discipleship Training conferences

Travel expenses plus an honorarium made out to Truth in Love Ministries are the only requirements.

Submit your request soon because his calendar is filling up quickly, and while he is trying to limit his travel schedule, the board of directors will consider any requests. Call Ronny at 205-910-0085 or email info@histruthinlove.org for more information on requesting Dr. Shaw to teach, train, or counsel with your team of counselors.

Some of the topics with descriptions that Dr. Shaw teaches are as follows:

  • Addiction-Proof Parenting: Understand how a four year old can learn to think like an enslaved drug addict and how parents can help children to learn to think like Christ.
  • Applying Faith to Cutters & Self-injurers: Learn how to biblically counsel self-injurers.
  • Battling Cell Phone, Videogame, TV, and Internet “Addiction”: Learn the biblical approach to counsel those who struggle with what the world calls an “addiction” but is personal choice.
  • Co-Counseling: Working Effectively with a Partner: Learn about the many strengths and few weaknesses of the team model for biblical counseling. Discover a new way to counsel for your protection, for the counselee’s benefit, and for the glory of Christ.
  • Divine Intervention: Hope and Help for Families of Addicts: How does a family intervene to help an “addict”? What resources are available to them and how do they speak the truth in love to their “addicted” loved one.
  • Family Issues in Addiction: Understand how family dynamics work when someone is “addicted” and how to counsel family members to walk by faith and not sight.
  • The Heart of Addiction: Is “addiction” really a disease? Learn the basics about helping someone struggling with life-dominating sin.
  • Just One More- The Heart of a Gambler: Understand how to help those who are being poor stewards of the resources God has given them.
  • Key Passages for Counseling Addicts: What are the key passages you must know to counsel those struggling with the life-dominating sins of addiction? Learn how the sufficient Word of God can be maximized to help an “addict” you will counsel.
  • The Mind of an Addict: Learn how an “addict” thinks and how to replace that maladaptive thinking with biblical truth. Identify five mentalities to put off and five replacement mentalities to put on when you work with “addicts.”
  • Relapse Prevention- the Fruit of Repentance: When an “addict” repents, you will know it. Learn how to identify the fruits of repentance found only in an abiding relationship with Christ.

More topics on which Dr. Shaw teaches:

  • Biblical Parenting
  • Biblical Principles of Sex
  • Co-Dependency or Men-pleasing?
  • Comparison of Counseling Philosophies
  • Counseling Addicts
  • Counseling an Unbeliever? (Addiction example: Prov. 23:25-33)
  • Counseling those from Sexual, Verbal, & Physical Abuse
  • Counseling Sexual Sins
  • Counseling Women to Be Godly Wives
  • Depression
  • Doctrine of Spiritual Growth (Progressive Sanctification)
  • Family Issues in Addiction
  • Fear and Worry
  • Forgiveness and Repentance
  • Foundation of Biblical Counseling
  • Four Rules of Communication
  • Gaining Involvement and Giving Hope
  • Gathering the Information You Need
  • God’s Basic Truths on Marriage
  • Good Grief
  • Guilt and Forgiveness
  • The Heart of Change
  • Helping Counselees Understand Sexual Sin and Its Solutions
  • Homework–Making the Between Times Profitable
  • How to Counsel the Different Types of Addiction
  • How to Handle Anger
  • Husbands Who Are Like Christ
  • Idols of the Heart
  • Intake and Aftercare
  • Interventions (and Divine Intervention)
  • Is Addiction Really a Disease?
  • Making Sense of the Information You Gather
  • Marriage Basics (parts 1 and 2)
  • Organizing Data
  • Overview of Addictions
  • The Practical Process of Change – 2 Peter 1:3-9; 2 Tim 3:16-17, Romans 6:1-18
  • Qualifying as a Biblical Counselor and Goals of Biblical Counseling
  • Q&A: any topic
  • The Theology of Discipleship
  • Trials & Suffering
  • What Makes Biblical Counseling Biblical
  • When Your Counselee Wants to Quit: The Transforming Power of God’s Forgiveness
  • Why Counsel?