Welcome To THE NUGGET Our Father in Heaven: The Perfect Prayer, Part 1 By: Lyn Chaffart ---------------------------- September 21, 2024 You can’t start off anything important without an opening line. In fact, it is said that the quality of the opening line will often dictate the quality of the entire piece. But, you say, the first line of the Lord’s Prayer is nothing more than a mere gree ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET In Thee I Put My Trust  By: Paul Smyth  ---------------------------- September 19, 2024 On my way to work this morning, my heart felt particularly heavy. Adding to the gloom, the sky was loaded with an ugly concoction of dreary grey clouds—and it was raining. And not withstanding the fact that I had not slept well the night before, a legion of thought-provoking rabbit-holes were compound ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Hiding Like a Tortoise By: Joe Mazzella ---------------------------- September 17, 2024 "You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance." (Psalms 32:7 NIV) When I was a young father every Spring at the end of May near Memorial Day, my wife and I would take our kids to her family reunion. It always took pl ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Perfect Prayer, Introduction By: Lyn Chaffart ---------------------------- September 14, 2024 Wouldn’t it be nice to know how to pray perfectly? Of course, we know that our prayers aren’t perfect (“we don’t know what God wants us to pray for…” Romans 8:26b NLT). God never asks us to do anything impossible, but that He will personally help us accomplish everything ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Happily Ever After By: Kari Vo ---------------------------- September 12, 2024 "After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, 'Salvation belongs to our God who s ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET When Storms Rage By: Paul Smyth --------------------------------- September 10, 2024 Last night the skies were angry, or as my wife called it, “they were having a hissy fit!” I awoke around midnight to flashes of lightning and distant thunder. As the storm drew closer, I checked weather radar and noticed a series of thunderstorms bearing down on the city where I live. Eventually the sky was flashi ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR God Is Able September 8, 2024 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return to me void. ~ Isaiah 55:11 KJV ~ The word of God is true and Amen.  “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return to me void.” (Isaiah 55:11 KJV). I nor you should not therefore be afraid or ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Purpose of Prayer By: Lyn Chaffart ---------------------------- September 7, 2024 “So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us th ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET No Turning Back By: Alice Burnett --------------------------------- September 5, 2024 In my last year of teaching, the principal of the Christian school where I taught chose for our yearly theme the phrase, “No Turning Back”. To this end, I hung a "No U-turn sign on my classroom door . As well, in various ways the school explored this theme throughout the year. At the end of the year, June 20 ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET How Miserable I Am By: Lyn Chaffart ---------------------------- September 3, 2024 Have you ever felt that way? Do you, perhaps, feel this way right now? Likely the answer is “yes”, or you wouldn’t be reading this post. Please understand that you are not alone. Also know that this is an attitude God understands, for I found that exact p ...Continue Reading