Pleasing people : How not to be an "approval junkie"

Full of Scripture and challenging to the reader, Pleasing People takes aim at a problem common in all of us: the desire to be liked by others. But the book also wisely delineates when pleasing people is biblical. The penetrating exercises throughout the text will help readers see how this sin... Full description

Main Author: Priolo, Lou.
Published: Phillipsburg, New Jersey : P&R Publishing, 2007
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Me, an approval junkie?
  • Characteristics of a people-pleaser
  • Is it ever right to please people?
  • The dangers of being a people-pleaser
  • More dangers of being a people-pleaser
  • You can't please all of the people even some of the time
  • But you can please God
  • Some points about pride
  • Characteristics of a God-pleaser
  • So what exactly does it take to please God?
  • What are you wearing?
  • Whose serve is it?
  • Additional remedies
  • Where's your treasure?
  • Appendix A : Prerequisite to pleasing God
  • Appendix B : Getting to the heart of pride (directions for using the heart journal).