Dr. Steven Saunders, Professor of Psychology at Marquette University, and author of the

Issues, et cetera, Book of the Month, Martin Luther on Mental Health, Practical Advice

for Christians Today.

500 years before mental health professionals started to do this, Luther was telling people,

be aware of what you're thinking, be aware of how you're behaving, change them so that

you can help yourself with your depression, with your anxiety.

Learn more about Martin Luther on Mental Health at issuesetc.org.

Christians, if you want to protect your children from this, you need to develop right now a

pretty healthy understanding of civil disobedience.

You cannot be a soft presence here in Sodom and expect your children to be okay.

We have seen a huge increase in pet ownership in our country, and I think some of it is

this desire for women to continue to mother someone or something, and pets have become

really a surrogate to that, because of the fact that we've decided that children are

not the best way in which we ought to live our lives as women and mothers anymore.

We do the whole New Testament, and all the explicit passages about baptism.

And if you just, I think, ask that pretty basic question of who's doing the work in this

passage? Is it man or is it God?

Universally, it's God's doing the work.

It's something that's happening to you.

Our defense is the strength of God's word, the testimony of God's spirit in our hearts

through that word, through His sacraments.

In all these ways, God is preserving us in the faith and defending us against all of

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