Welcome To THE NUGGET Not the Way We Were By: Alice Burnett --------------------------------- October 31, 2024 When I was a child, I absorbed the message that achievement was everything. Of all the life-lessons I learned as I grew up, the one that my parents emphasized the most was doing well in school. Not only to do well, but to to excel. My parents did not have the opportunity for higher education, so they expected ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Expedience or Truth? By: Kary Vo --------------------------------- October 29, 2024 "And when He [Jesus] entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to Him as He was teaching, and said, 'By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?' Jesus answered them, 'I also will ask you one question, and if you tell Me the answer, then I als ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET And Forgive Us Our Debts... The Perfect Prayer, Part 6 By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- October 26, 2024 Last Saturday, in The Perfect Prayer, Part 5, we saw that after acknowledging that our God is our perfect Daddy who is holy, and we need to ensure that we honour the holiness of His name; after ensuring that the principles of God’s Kingdom are reflected in our lives; after ens ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Leaning on Jesus By: Kari Vo --------------------------------- October 25, 2024 "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Peace By: Rod Marshall --------------------------------- October 22, 2023 "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid." (John 14:27 ESV) This verse was spoken first to His apostles and tells of a peace which Jesus expects to bring in ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Different Tools for Different Jobs October 20, 2024 I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. ~ John 15:1 NLT ~ I was struggling with deboning a chicken breast. Why is this job so hard? I wondered, the meat slithering and slipping between my fingers as I hacked away with a big butcher knife. The meat was looking a bit mutilated. “Use a boning k ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Give Us This Day... The Perfect Prayer, Part 5 By: Lyn Chaffart ---------------------------- October 19, 2024 Last Saturday, in The Perfect Prayer, Part 4, we saw that after acknowledging that our God is the perfect, all loving, all powerful, all knowing Daddy; after we realize that despite being our Daddy, God is holy, and we need to ensure that we honour the holiness of His name; after ensuring ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR The Potato Crop October 18, 2024 He has made everything beautiful in its time. ~ Eccl. 3:11a NIV ~ Four years ago, when we put in our first garden box, my wife and I decided to plant potatoes. They did okay, and we had a moderate potato harvest at the end of the season. They took up a lot of space in our small garden bed, however, and it didn’t seem that the modest outcome was worth the g ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Blessed Are the Peacemakers By: Kari Vo ---------------------------- October 17, 2024 "Seeing the crowds, He [Jesus] went up on the mountain, and when He sat down, His disciples came to Him. And He opened His mouth and taught them, saying ... 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.'" (Matthew 5:1-2, 9 ESV) Being a peacemaker can ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET What Is the Law For, Anyway? By: Kari Vo ---------------------------- October 15, 2024 "Now we know that whatever the Law says it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the Law no human being will be justified in His sight, since through the Law comes knowledge of sin. But now the righteous ...Continue Reading