Welcome To THE NUGGET Running Into the Light By: Alice Burnett ----------------------------------------------- April 16, 2026 When we were children, my brother and I would overturn rocks or old boards lying on the ground. We would like to watch small, slate-grey bugs scurrying away. These bugs, called sow bugs or potato bugs, are cold bloodied land crustaceans with segmented bodies and seven pairs of legs. Sow bugs pre ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Spiritual Booster Shot By: Paul Smyth ----------------------------------------------- April 14, 2026 "Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, 'He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.'” (Psalms 91:1, 2 NIV) This Bible verse showed up on my phone this morning as the verse of ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Inexplicable Peace By: Lyn Chaffart ----------------------------------------------- April 11, 2026 I know where it came from, but I can't tell you why God gave it to me... I certainly didn't deserve it, and my pitiful actions up until that point did not show any signs of growing faith! Therefore all I can do is praise God for this beautiful, undeserved gift ... But l ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Caught By: Kari Vo ----------------------------------------------- April 9, 2026 "On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on Him to hear the Word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and He saw two boats by the lake .... Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, He asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the people from the boat. ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET God Is My Stronghold By: Paul Smyth ----------------------------------------------- April 7, 2026 As is often the case with my sleep patterns, I woke up in the middle of the night last evening and had difficulty returning to slumber. So, as per my usual, I prayed. I’ve decided that if I am awake when the moon is out, I might as well do something useful with my time and beseech the Lord’s intervent ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Day Between By: Lyn Chaffart ----------------------------------------------- April 4, 2026 Yesterday we celebrated the death of our Lord and Saviour, a horrible experience that He went into with joy in His heart, "He saw the joy ahead of him, so he endured death on the cross and ignored the disgrace it brought him..." (Hebrews 12:2b GW). Just what was i ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Final Answer By: Kari Vo ----------------------------------------------- April 2, 2026 "And as Jesus taught in the temple, He said, 'How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at My right hand, until I put Your enemies under Your feet.'" David himself calls Him Lord. So how is He his son?' ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Glorified By: Kari Vo ----------------------------------------------- March 31, 2026 "Jesus was troubled in His spirit, and testified, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.' ... So when [Jesus] had dipped the morsel, He gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot [and said] to him, 'What you are going to do, do quickly.' ... So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immedi ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET To be Served? Or to Serve? By: Lyn Chaffart ----------------------------------------------- March 28, 2026 As I scurried around, preparing for the move to western Canada, there was one thought always at the forefront of my mind: God was moving us out west so that we could be near family! The thing is, I already know that my western kids, who pastor a large church out ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Beautiful By: Kari Vo ----------------------------------------------- March 26, 2026 "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of ...Continue Reading