by Mark Shaw | Apr 29, 2010 | Devotions, Posts by Mark, TRANSFORMED, Truth in Love Staff
Some of you may not get the joke but some of you will – I can imagine someone saying to me: “Mark is finally admitting he is in recovery after neck surgery!” One of the heartbeats of our ministry is that Christ “transforms” us from...
by Mark Shaw | Dec 11, 2009 | Church Life, Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
We say this phrase a lot and sometimes it’s a good phrase. But whatever happened to “I want to…” What’s wrong with “I want to…” when we are Spirit-led? God says that when we delight in Him, He gives us the desires of our...
by Mark Shaw | Mar 2, 2009 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
Physically, when young people smoke cigarettes, it is said that it “stunts their growth” primarily because it suppresses their appetite. Thinking about this same concept in a spiritual sense: what suppresses our appetite for spiritual food from God’s...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 22, 2009 | Posts by Mark, Truth in Love Staff
Have you ever been lost? Maybe you were driving and missed a turn so you kept going…only to realize at some point, “I think I’m lost!” When do we realize that we are spiritually lost? When do we realize that we need Christ to save us and to...
by Mark Shaw | Jan 11, 2009 | Announcements, Biblical Counseling, Partnerships, Posts by Mark
In biblical counseling, we deal with sin issues of the heart that are spiritual in nature. If an issue is organic – meaning it has a physical cause – we do NOT address it. We send the person to a medical doctor for a medical evaluation. Sometimes, a...