Proverbs 3:34

This Guide on finding respect will explore how finding it begins with our respect for God. The creator God. The planet maker. Our relationship with Him sets the tone for every other relationship we have and how we will respect others and ourselves.

Have you ever tried running away from your challenges? My counselor once told me, “It’s time to stop avoiding your problems and learn to face them.” It takes a lot of courage to walk through difficult situations, but it’s the only way we will grow in our relationship with Christ. “Bear Hunt” is a five-day journey on facing our everyday challenges and how to become stronger because of them.

God cares about our speech, and there’s never been a more important time than right now to be reminded of this truth. In this five-day devotion, author, podcaster, and columnist Daniel Darling examines five things Proverbs says about our words and how we can apply those verses to our online and in-person communication.

Discipleship works against fear. As we obey God’s commands, we entrust ourselves to him. Like the students attending the schools founded by D. L. Moody in Northfield, MA, God’s people “are encouraged to test the meaning and value of the Bible’s teachings experimentally, by acting upon them, and living them out.” As we “test experimentally” the word of God, we will find that we will have fewer and fewer reasons to be afraid. You can get an expanded version of this plan at moodycenter.org/fear.