Welcome To THE NUGGET Preparing to Meet the King  By: Lyn Chaffart ----------------------------------------------- June 13, 2026 The book of Esther records the story of a young Jewish girl, orphaned at an early age and raised by her cousin, Mordecai. At the time when she was a young woman, the emperor "fired" his empress... And then a few days later, he regretted it. First lesson to be learned: Don't rea ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Finding Rest in You: Where Is God When It Hurts? Part 3 By: Kenn Stright ----------------------------------------------- June 11, 2026 Perhaps everyone feels at some point that tingling uncontrollable urge to move one’s legs while trying to sleep.  How annoying to feel that itchy twitching, creepy crawly feeling! For some of us it goes beyond an occasional annoyance and becomes a nightly ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Walk By: Lynne Phipps ---------------------------- June 9, 2026 "Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away." (Genesis 5:22a, 24 NIV) My dogs and I try to walk every day.  As we are fenced, the dogs are able to run freely.  Some of them like to be out ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET As Prescribed by David... By: Lyn Chaffart ---------------------------- June 6, 2026 One of the things I like most about reading the Bible is how the Holy Spirit points out new things, each and every time you read a familiar passage. And what the Holy Spirit points out is exactly what you need to hear in that particular moment! This particular time, I didn't get the ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET I Can't Hear You Through the Noise: Where Is God When It Hurts? Part 2 By: Kenn Stright ----------------------------------------------- June 4, 2026 "He said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’ Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Serious Preparation, Part 2: The Result By: Lyn Chaffart ---------------------------- May 30, 2026 Last week, in Serious Preparation, Part 1, we saw that when our Biblical forefathers and heroes, specifically Nehemiah, made a request to God, their prayers looked a bit different than most of ours. Maybe if our prayers were less about what we want and more on who God is, maybe if we spent more time ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Thorn in the Flesh: Where Is God When It Hurts? Part 1 By: Kenn Stright ----------------------------------------------- May 28, 2026 "…if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think better of me than what is seen in me or heard from me, even considering the exceptional character of the revelations. Therefore, to ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET I Will Carry You By: Paul Smyth ---------------------------- May 26, 2026 This coming week, my dear wife, Diane, celebrates, in her words, a significant birthday. Not old by any stretch of the imagination, she has people telling her on a regular basis that she does not look her age. By God’s grace, that’s a win! It’s not just because I am her husband of 37 years and bound to always say the right t ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Serious Preparation, Part 1 By: Lyn Chaffart ----------------------------------------------- May 23, 2026 What do you do when faced with a situation that makes you feel nervous, even afraid? Yet it must be addressed in order for something you want very badly to be accomplished? Maybe you want to talk to your immediate supervisor about being transferred to a different ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Where Is God When It Hurts? Introduction By: Kenn Stright ----------------------------------------------- May 21, 2026 Philip Yancey wrote a wonderful book entitled, “Where is God when it Hurts?” and it takes the most pressing problems of life and asks where God is in the midst of them. And the surprising answer is that God is where God has always been, God is in Christ reconciling the world. And ...Continue Reading