2901. Martin Luther’s Insights into Mental Illness, Part 2 – Dr. Stephen Saunders, 10/17/23
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Dr. Stephen Saunders of Marquette University Martin Luther on Mental Health
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Steven Saunders, Professor of Psychology at Marquette University, and author of the |
| 0:04.5 | Issues, et cetera, Book of the Month, Martin Luther on Mental Health, Practical Advice |
| 0:09.3 | for Christians Today. |
| 0:10.6 | 500 years before mental health professionals started to do this, Luther was telling people, |
| 0:16.9 | be aware of what you're thinking, be aware of how you're behaving, change them so that |
| 0:21.4 | you can help yourself with your depression, with your anxiety. |
| 0:25.4 | Learn more about Martin Luther on Mental Health at issuesetc.org. |
| 0:36.2 | The new left has consistently been anti-humane since the 1960s, and I think they want so deeply |
| 0:43.9 | to remake the human person in their image that they're willing to run over acres and |
| 0:49.0 | acres of bodies to get there. |
| 0:51.0 | You wouldn't tell someone in 1860's US who's fighting for abolition, but don't be a culture |
| 0:55.8 | warrior. |
| 0:56.8 | Now you'd say that's great, it's good that we should be fighting against the abomination |
| 0:59.8 | of slavery. |
| 1:01.1 | But in the same way, you also wouldn't want them to ignore spiritual reality only for the sake |
| 1:06.2 | of anything political. |
| 1:07.7 | One of the things that is perhaps becoming more and more obvious in our contemporary context |
| 1:12.4 | is an awful lot of people who have perhaps sat in church every Sunday of their lives |
| 1:18.2 | but do not always know what God considers pleasing. |
| 1:23.1 | So our prayer for Israel is not only that the war that is currently ravaging that region |
| 1:29.2 | would come to an end, but we pray that their war against the Messiah would brought to an |
| 1:34.1 | end so that they can be grafted back into the olive tree that they were broken off of because |
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