Seeking Approval Podcast
Seeking Approval is a Bible-based podcast that deals honestly with one of the quiet struggles many believers face: the desire to be accepted, affirmed, and approved by people rather than resting in the approval of God. In a world driven by opinions, applause, comparison, and constant noise, this podcast turns the listener back to Scripture for clarity, conviction, and peace. Each episode opens the Word of God and addresses real-life pressures through sound biblical teaching, thoughtful reflection, and practical application. The focus is not on self-esteem, popularity, or performance, but on learning what it truly means to stand approved unto God. Topics include people-pleasing, identity in Christ, spiritual confidence, handling criticism, and living faithfully without chasing affirmation. This podcast is designed for believers who want to grow deeper in their walk with the Lord, strengthen their spiritual foundation, and learn how to live with conviction in a culture that constantly demands compromise. The goal is simple: less striving for approval from man, and a greater confidence in the approval that comes from God alone.
Episodes
Perception vs Reality Part 2 Summary
In this episode, we examine the danger of allowing feelings to speak louder than truth. Emotions are powerful and persuasive, especially in seasons of pain, confusion, or waiting, but they were never meant to define reality. Drawing from Scripture, we see how perception can distort our view of God, ourselves, and our circumstances when it goes unchecked. This episode calls believers to...
Perception vs Reality (Part 1) Summary
In this episode, we explore the crucial difference between perception and reality and why that distinction matters so deeply in the Christian life. Feelings are real, but they are not always true. When perception becomes the foundation of our faith, confusion, conflict, and instability soon follow. Scripture calls believers to walk by faith, not by sight, allowing God’s Word to defin...
The Dangers of Comparison (Part 6) Summary
After exploring the dangers of comparison, condemnation, fear of failure, and competition, this episode refocuses the Christian life on what real growth actually looks like. Scripture reveals that God works with His people one step at a time, not through pressure, performance, or unrealistic expectations. This episode encourages listeners to stop despising small beginnings and to...
The Dangers of Comparison (Part 5) Summary
Driven personalities often bring a competitive mindset into their walk with God without realizing the damage it can cause. In this episode, we examine why the Christian life was never meant to be a competition and how comparison turns faith into performance. Scripture reminds us that believers are called to run the race set before them, not to keep score against one another. This...
The Dangers of Comparison (Part 4) Summary
In a culture shaped by constant visibility, many believers are quietly struggling under the weight of comparison fueled by social media and public expressions of faith. This episode examines the danger of what can be called “highlight reel faith,” where carefully curated moments distort reality and reshape how Christians measure spiritual growth. Drawing from Scripture, we are...
The Danger of Comparison (Part 3) Summary
Many believers struggle not because they lack faith, but because they are trying to live someone else’s walk with God. In this episode, we address the damaging assumption that there is only one “right” way to be a Christian and examine how comparison distorts God’s design for individual calling and growth. Scripture reminds us that God works through people, not replicas, and th...
The Dangers of Comparison (Part 2) Summary
Comparison often does more than discourage believers. Over time, it quietly turns into condemnation. In this episode, we explore the crucial difference between the Holy Spirit’s conviction and the enemy’s accusation, and why so many Christians confuse the two. Condemnation leaves believers feeling unworthy, disqualified, and hesitant to draw near to God, while conviction ...
The Dangers of Comparison (Part 1) Summary
Comparison is one of the most common yet least acknowledged struggles in the Christian life. Many believers love God deeply, yet quietly measure their walk against others and come away feeling discouraged, inadequate, or spiritually behind. In this episode, we examine the subtle danger of comparison from a biblical perspective and why Scripture warns against measuring ourselve...
Part 2: Compassion Without Compromise
In Part 2, we continue the conversation by focusing on biblical compassion and why it must always walk hand in hand with truth. Compassion is often misunderstood as silence, avoidance, or minimizing pain, but Scripture presents it differently. True compassion does not deny what happened, excuse sin, or bypass accountability. It speaks truth carefully, patiently, and without cruelty...
A Minor Adjustment
With each of our channels/platforms growing so rapidly, we are making a few adjustments to keep things clear and easy to find. Our Seeking Approval Podcast will be reserved for APPLICATION DEVOTIONS and a few minor Bible Doctrine lessons. If you are searching the continuing classroom lessons on Debunking Calvinism, you can find them here (Sermon Audio) or here (YouTube).
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Anger, Bitterness, and Compassion (Part 1) Summary
Anger and hurt do not usually begin with hatred. They begin with pain that was never properly dealt with. In this episode, we take a biblical look at how unresolved anger turns into bitterness, how unforgiveness disguises itself as self protection, and why forgiveness and reconciliation are not the same thing. Scripture is allowed to define the path to healing, showing...
Part 4: Failure as a Tool, How God Uses Weakness to Build Warriors
In this episode, we confront the truth that God does not merely tolerate our weakness, He uses it. Failure is not evidence that God has rejected us, but proof that He is refining us. Scripture shows that weakness is the very platform where God’s grace shines brightest, humility is formed, dependence is learned, discernment is sharpened, compassion is de...
Part One: The Authority of God’s Word
In this opening session, we lay the foundation for everything that follows by settling the question of authority. Before interpretation, doctrine, or application can begin, we must first answer why the Bible has the right to speak with final authority at all. Scripture presents itself not as man’s thoughts about God, but as God’s own Word given to man.
We examine the doctrine of ver...
In this session, we examine how God makes Himself known and why revelation is essential to true faith. Creation, conscience, and the order of the world clearly testify that God exists and that man is accountable, yet these forms of general revelation are limited. They reveal God’s power and authority but cannot explain sin, grace, or salvation. Human attempts to reason their way to God through nature and philosophy ul...
Episode Summary – Part 3: Romans 8, The Declaration of the Winner
In Part 3 of the Fear of Failure mini series, we turn to one of the most triumphant chapters in all of Scripture, Romans 8. This episode proclaims that the believer’s victory is not something to be earned, but something already declared by God through Jesus Christ. From “no condemnation” to “no separation,” Romans 8 dismantles the fear of failure by remi...
Episode Summary – Part 2: The Conqueror Mindset, Thinking Like a Winner in a World of Loss
In Part 3 of the Fear of Failure mini series, we turn our attention to the mindset every believer must develop if they are going to live victoriously in a fallen world. Scripture calls believers conquerors, not because of confidence in self, but because of confidence in Christ. Drawing heavily from Romans 8, this episode challeng...
Episode Summary – Prayer and the Divine Will
This episode carefully addresses one of the most personal and difficult tensions believers face: if God has eternally decreed all things, why should we pray, and does prayer truly matter. Rather than softening God’s sovereignty or offering shallow comfort, this session shows from Scripture that prayer is one of the ordained means by which God carries out His will in time. Pr...
In this episode, we turn from who God is to how God governs, examining the biblical doctrines of God’s decree and providence. Scripture reveals a God who is not reacting to history but ruling over it, eternally purposing all things and actively sustaining, directing, and governing every moment in time. We explore how God works through real human choices and secondary causes without surrendering His sovereignty, and ho...
Part 1: When Failure Stops Being the Enemy
In this opening episode of the Fear of Failure mini series, we confront one of the most misunderstood words in the Christian life: failure. Scripture never presents failure as final, shameful, or disqualifying. Instead, it reveals failure as one of God’s most effective classrooms for growth, humility, and dependence on grace. Drawing from biblical examples and personal experie...
A God Who Does Not Change and Cannot Be Shaken
God’s Immutability and Impassibility
If God could change, His promises could fail. If God could be emotionally wounded, His sovereignty would weaken. In this episode, we examine two often misunderstood attributes of God: His immutability and His impassibility. Scripture reveals a God who does not shift, adjust, or evolve, and who is not subject to emotional turmoil or...
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