Welcome To THE NUGGET Of Time Changes and Jet Lag By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- October 4, 2025 (Written October 2024) Anyone who has travelled internationally via plane can relate to the difficulties brought on by the changes in time. Since car, train or boat travel get you to your destination slow enough that your body can acclimate to different time zones, the phen ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Investing in a Field By: Alice Burnett --------------------------------- October 2, 2025 Have you ever felt as if something that God was asking you to do didn't make sense? I happened to me. My cousin in Czechia messaged me to ask if we could take her 16-year-old daughter for a month the following summer. She wasn't doing well in her English classes at school, and Ka ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Change Focus By: Kofi Ankrah Twumasi  --------------------------------- September 30, 2025 "Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw Him walking on the lake, they were terrified. 'It’s a ghost,' they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: 'Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.' 'Lord, if it’s you,' Peter replied, ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Turtle By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- September 27, 2024 "There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every matter under heaven— A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.... A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A t ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET False Guilt By: Kari Vo --------------------------------- September 25, 2025 "And He [Jesus] called the people to Him again and said to them, 'Hear Me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.' And when He had entered the house and left the people, His disciples asked Him ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The "Go-Bag" By: Lynne Phipps --------------------------------- September 23, 2024 "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief.  The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare." (2 Peter 3:10 NIV) When a friend of mine was evacuated from his home and tow ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Let Your Hand Be Against ... ME! By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- September 20, 2024 Our modern society thinks primarily about themselves and their own well being. Children are often not taught responsibility, especially in regards to taking responsibility for one's actions. This tendency to point the finger and clear ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Satisfied By: Carol Geisler --------------------------------- September 18, 2025 "I open my mouth and pant, because I long for Your commandments. Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is Your way with those who love Your Name. Keep steady my steps according to Your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me." (Psalm 119:131-133 ESV) We long for all ki ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR The Way of Escape September 17, 2025 But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. ~ 1 Corinthians 10:13b NIV ~ "No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.  But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Your Faith Thermometer By: Paul Smyth --------------------------------- September 15, 2025 Thermometers measure air temperature, either indoors or outdoors. With that simplified definition in mind, do you have a faith thermometer that measures hot and cold? Do you consider your faith hot when things are going well and God answers your prayer requests in a timely manner? Conversely, does your faith ...Continue Reading