Don't get legalistic with God about your giving. Don't count it up. Just every opportunity you get to be a blessing to somebody, whether it's giving them a compliment, praying for them, encouraging them, or hearing of a financial need [...]

I wanna preach a message this morning that I'm just calling, "Are You Working From Approval or For Approval"? So, just think about that for a minute. Do you read your Bible? Do you give? Do you pray? Do you do some kingdom work trying [...]

This is an excerpt from: The Secret Scoreboard I have to get to the point where I don't need validation from people to do what's right because it's according to my values. You don't give so people will see you. Jesus isn't [...]

Last week, we began talking about overcoming approval addiction which appears to be a pretty big foundation for a whole lot of other things to operate in people's lives. For example, if you live under a burden of guilt, if you live under a [...]

I'm amazed at the lives that are being destroyed and derailed over the effort of trying to earn approval from people that you don't even know, trying to buy things so that they can approve of you with money you don't even have, and [...]

I'm about to talk about something that I don't have to ask you to raise your hands. Maybe you don't know it, but everybody in here at one time or another has been impacted and affected by something called approval addiction. To be [...]

Jesus said, "I do not receive glory from men, but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him". - [...]

I want to talk today about Approval Addiction. Too many people make decisions based on what other people will think about them. They run everything through a filter: how's this going to make me look? How will my friends and coworkers perceive [...]

So let's look at this in John 7:1, "After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take His life. But when the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near, Jesus' brother [...]