All right, what's up guys?

Welcome everybody that is tuning in online or wherever you are joining us from

and we are excited to continue this series therapy. We kicked it off last week

and we began to explore a crucial topic, especially right now and that's

mental health and how the church and really the Bible speaks to these issues

because it does over and over and over. This is an issue that we had planned before

you know COVID and corona had even happened doing a series called therapy

addressing mental health specifically these first few weeks were camping out on anxiety

because it's too big of an issue to hit in one night but specifically or but

furthermore we had planned this even before COVID happened and then it was like if our nation

ever needed to go through therapy it is now this is a time where we all need to do some work

and specifically there's a rates to anxiety and depression and and having mental health.

God cares about you. He wants you to experience that and so we're going to look for the next

few weeks that is where there's a study that was done I referenced last week of just how important

this is of anxiety is not going away if anything is getting worse and it referenced that the

average psychiatric patient in 1950 had the same levels of anxiety as a young person today.

Think about that and yet for Christians God over and over talks about this subject where he says

I want you to experience a life that is not ruled and owned by fear or anxiety.

We start by telling a kind of funny thing that's relevant to our team.

I know y'all have all heard it but the term dog mom. I don't know how long how long is dog mom

been around like a while? Maybe years I feel like this thing just came onto the scene and people

went from like oh I just really love dogs to know this is my fur baby I see them not as my pet but

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