Welcome to the Nugget July 23, 2019 Every Day is Holy By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    "This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." (Ps. 118:24 ESV) It was late September. I was driving through a heavy fog to a store to pick up a few things. When I got there I strolled through the store looking for what I needed. I grabbed a bag of dog food for my dogs, a pack of batteries for my son, and a bite of chocolate fo ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget July 18, 2019 The Making Way By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    "A voice of one calling: In the desert prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.&qu ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget July 16, 2019 The Appalachian Trail By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us Guide to the Appalachian Trail I settled in the back seat of an Uber car the other day, folded my white cane, and stuffed it in my bag. As I usually do, I began a conversation with the driver. As expected, we became friends. That's because I ask questions that prompt them to share and keep sharing about their lives. This last driver told me about his brother who wrote the guide for the Appa ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget July 13, 2019 Of Thermometer and Thermostat Believers, Part 3 By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    In the concluding part of our introspective series of examining whether we belong to the "Thermometer" or the "Thermostat" category of believers, today let's focus on yet another "Thermostatic" Saint... Cell... Let's dive headfirst into the Scriptures... "I want you to know, brothers, that what has happen ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget July 11, 2019 Of Thermometer and Thermostat Believers, Part 2 By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    In our introspective series of examining whether we belong to the "Thermometer" or the "Thermostat" category of believers, today, in the penultimate part of the series, let's focus on yet another "Thermostatic" saint... Fast forward by another 46 years (539 BC) from the time of the heroics of Shadrach, Mesach a ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget July 9, 2019 Of Thermometer and Thermostat Believers, Part 1 By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    In every sweltering summer the temperatures soar. With mercury on the rise, oh how our tongues crave for that cool "elixir of life" (read pot or fridge water)! By the same token in chilly winter, the warm clothing shunned in summer now appears oh-so-inviting. Come either summer or winter, controlling the temperature is w ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget July 6, 2019 Saving the Whales By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    It was Wednesday, the 30th of July, 1986. A few members of a pod of false killer whales became stranded in the shallow waters around Augusta, Western Australia. Because this specie is highly sociable, the rest of the pod probably responded to the individual distress calls of the stranded whales, resulting in the entire pod, 114 in total, becoming stranded and disoriented in the ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget July 4, 2019 God's Citizenship By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    Poor doggie, July 4th is a torture for him. My friend's puppy had to be protected from the noisy fireworks that blasted his furry ears. For him they were a nightmare, for me the sound of July 4th fireworks reminds me of a dream come true. A few decades ago my parents chose to make the U.S. our home. Soon after, we received our residency papers and five years later, the big da ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget June 29, 2019 Tremble...In the Presence of the Lord! Lessons From the Psalms, Part 10: Psalm 114 By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    In response to recent requests from subscribers, the Nugget will be featuring a devotional based on the book of Psalms once a month. We pray you will be blessed by this focus on the one book of the Bible that Jesus quoted the most. Last month we saw that in ancient Judaism, the book of Psalms were divided into ...Continue Reading

Welcome to the Nugget June 27, 2019 Family Reunion By Answers2Prayer Subscribe Unsubscribe Devotionals Contact us    "I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message, that all of them may be one, asYou, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May theyalso be in Us, so that the world may believe thatYou sent Me." ...Continue Reading