EPISODE · May 2, 2022 · 22 MIN
#158 - Complicated Grief as Addiction Counselors, Part 1 (CJ McMurry and Dr. Shaw)
from The Addiction Connection Podcast · host theaddictionconnection
Grief, compassion, comfort, and addiction counseling – today from CJ McMurry, from The Refuge, and Dr. Mark E. Shaw, Founder of The Addiction Connection. CJ is a Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselor with TAC, and serves The Refuge Program Director. Psalm 31:9-10 ESV Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. Eccles 7:2 "It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart. Prov 14:13 "Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief." 8:15 When to speak Romans 8:28-30 vs. Romans 12:15? Ps 119:50 "This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life." Some verses from Psalm 31 read by Dr. Shaw 17:23 Are you turning to drugs or alcohol to find an answer or relief to the pain of this life? Rom 5:6-11 read and taught by CJ. Dr. Mark E Shaw is the Founder of The Addiction Connection and leads an international team of Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselors (CABC) who are leading the way in offering the "Hope of the Gospel for the Heart of Addiction." CJ McMurry is a CABC (Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselor) with The Addiction Connection, serves on TAC's Board, and facilitates TAC's network as the Midwest Regional Director as well. He lives and works in Iowa as the Program Director of The Refuge in Winterset, a men's residential program for those in alcohol and drug addictions. Find more biblical residential programs for addiction which is what the world calls Substance Use Disorders, Go to https://www.theaddictionconnection.org/residential-programs/ for programs and www.theaddictionconnection.org/people/ for addictions biblical counselors. Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. May not copy or download more than 500 consecutive verses of the ESV Bible or more than one half of any book of the ESV Bible.
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Grief, compassion, comfort, and addiction counseling – today from CJ McMurry, from The Refuge, and Dr. Mark E. Shaw, Founder of The Addiction Connection. CJ is a Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselor with TAC, and serves The Refuge Program Director. Psalm 31:9-10 ESV Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. Eccles 7:2 "It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart. Prov 14:13 "Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief." 8:15 When to speak Romans 8:28-30 vs. Romans 12:15? Ps 119:50 "This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life." Some verses from Psalm 31 read by Dr. Shaw 17:23 Are you turning to drugs or alcohol to find an answer or relief to the pain of this life? Rom 5:6-11 read and taught by CJ. Dr. Mark E Shaw is the Founder of The Addiction Connection and leads an international team of Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselors (CABC) who are leading the way in offering the "Hope of the Gospel for the Heart of Addiction." CJ McMurry is a CABC (Commissioned Addictions Biblical Counselor) with The Addiction Connection, serves on TAC's Board, and facilitates TAC's network as the Midwest Regional Director as well. He lives and works in Iowa as the Program Director of The Refuge in Winterset, a men's residential program for those in alcohol and drug addictions. Find more biblical residential programs for addiction which is what the world calls Substance Use Disorders, Go to https://www.theaddictionconnection.org/residential-programs/ for programs and www.theaddictionconnection.org/people/ for addictions biblical counselors. Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. May not copy or download more than 500 consecutive verses of the ESV Bible or more than one half of any book of the ESV Bible.
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