Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith.

Ask questions, seek answers,

and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for watered down Christian teaching.

And if you're ready to go deeper God is just as ready to take

you there. This is Verity where every woman is a theologian. Friends I can't thank you

enough for the wonderful response to the podcast so far.

I am thrilled to see you all relating and resonating with the Instagram Bible episode and the community episode and I'm so excited that we can offer a few more here during this launch of the Verity podcast.

And today we're going to talk about a topic that is close to my heart because it's something

I've struggled with through most of my life. And as we dive into this, we're going to look at several different components.

I thought about calling this episode, confidence or insecurity, but ultimately I think it goes back to what I called it originally in Stop

Calling Me Beautiful, which if you don't know is my brand new book coming out February 18th.

We are talking about the fear of man.

Now, I'm not talking about fear of the male gender.

I'm talking about a need for human approval of fear of people's opinions of you.

Fear of man is a phrase taken from the King James version.

So it was an older way of saying that we fear popular opinion and we we

tend to be people pleasers and this is something that I really relate to as

somebody who struggles with people pleasing.

And so this is Chapter 10 of Stop Calling Me Beautiful.

You may notice we aren't doing these episodes in order of how they are in the book, but I did them rather in order of what I thought you guys would find interesting or the topics that were most resonating with my audience.

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