Welcome To THE NUGGET The House: Blocking the Road, Part 1 By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- July 29 , 2023 Maybe I would have been a bit more understanding had this been a narrow country road ... But this was the Trans Canada, at this point, a divided 4-lane road and the primary highway running east to west through the province of Manitoba! And that was an entire house balanced across a ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Three Steps to Peace in the Middle of Your Mess By: Janet P. Eckles --------------------------------- July 27, 2023 So, we’re dancing with gladness.  We grabbed a super deal on airline tickets. While our 401k plan is smiling, we pack suntan lotion and sunglasses. It’s vacation time. Remember those days? Remember when life was easier? Folks got the flu and it was ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Rescued From the Rot By: Kari Vo --------------------------------- July 25, 2023 /"I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for Me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek Me. I said, 'Here I am, here I am,' to a nation that was not called by My Name. I spread out My hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices; a ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Crossing the Road By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- July 22, 2023 One minute we were cruising down the road with our trailer in tow -- driving the speed limit, I might add! -- And the next we were screeching to a halt only just in the nick of time to avoid disaster as a pair of Canada geese and what seemed like a dozen goslings emerged from the woods and began making their way acr ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR The Pants July 21, 2023 For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness ~ Isaiah 61:10 NIV ~ "I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,  and as ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Whose Report Will YOU Believe? By: Kathy Keller --------------------------------- July 20, 2023 /"Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, 'We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.' But the men who had gone up with him said, 'We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are.'" /(Numbers 13:30-31 NIV) ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Being First By: Sharon Lundquist --------------------------------- July 18, 2023 "I was here first!" It starts so early! This exclamation often ended in some pushing and shoving. The effort to be first in line seems to go way back in my memory. It seemed that to be first in line was some kind of great achievement worthy of honour. When I was first to turn i ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET A Wedding Like No Other By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- July 15, 2023 It was a wedding like no other I had ever seen. Maybe I've only been to Christian weddings in the past... Maybe that's why the fact that the word "God" was never mentioned in the entire ceremony seemed so strange... But the fact that the officiant wasn't a minister and ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Flowers By: Vincent Walter --------------------------------- July 13, 2023 /"The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever."/ (Isaiah 40:8 NKJV) /"So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET What Next? By: Kari Vo --------------------------------- July 11, 2023 "/And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, 'Come over to Macedonia and help us.' And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the Gospel to them." /(Acts 16:9-10 ESV) ...Continue Reading