Pleasing People: How Not to Be an “Approval Junkie” by Lou Priolo

256 pages | List Price: $14.99 | Paperback

Summary

Full of Scripture and challenges to the reader, Pleasing People takes aim at a problem common in all of us: the desire to be liked by others. But Priolo is also careful to wisely delineate when pleasing people is biblical. The penetrating exercises throughout the text will help readers see how this sin manifests itself in their lives. Pleasing People will be useful for both personal reading and group study.

Endorsements

“From his years of counseling experience, Lou Priolo has developed a work that exposes many of the prideful manifestations of people-pleasing, while also walking the reader through the biblical process of repentance from the heart. This is a book that God can use greatly to change lives.”

—Stuart Scott

“Lou Priolo has written an extremely biblical and practical book to help the ‘people pleaser.’ Even if you think you do not have this weakness, you may be convicted that you do! The strengths of this book are the biblical principles, its charts with wrong compared to right ways of thinking, and its counsel on how to become a ‘God-pleaser.’ I am very pleased to have this resource for helping people, and I highly endorse it.”

—Martha Peace

“Lou has done a great job in unmasking the problem of people-pleasing and providing God’s solution to the problem. I commend this book to you because of its biblical and extremely practical nature. Buy it, read it, reread it, and use it in your counseling and teaching.”

—Wayne Mack

About the Author

Lou Priolo is a Fellow of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors and an instructor with Birmingham Theological Seminary. He has been the Director of Biblical Counseling at Eastwood Presbyterian Church since 1998 and has started counseling ministries at additional churches in Alabama, where he lives with his wife Kim and their two daughters Sophia and Gabriella.