Welcome To THE NUGGET Pride Goes Before a Fall... But Only for Him! July 10, 2021 +++ Answers2Prayer ministries wishes to apologize for the disruption in the sending of the Nugget. Due to technical difficulties, we were unable to send out the Nugget for Thursday, July 8. Praise God the difficulties have been resolved! +++ The level of pride evident in many of our world leaders is astonishing and very disheartening. Seeing the respons ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Pride Goes Before a Fall... But Only for Him! July 10, 2021 The level of pride evident in many of our world leaders is astonishing and very disheartening. Seeing the responses of some world leaders to the recent COVID-19 crisis left me wondering if they would pop if I pressed a pin into them. Aren't our leaders supposed to be examples? I mean, how can we look up to our leaders when they are constantly point the finger of blame, ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Pride Goes Before a Fall... But Only for Him! July 10, 2021 The level of pride evident in many of our world leaders is astonishing and very disheartening. Seeing the responses of some world leaders to the recent COVID-19 crisis left me wondering if they would pop if I pressed a pin into them. Aren't our leaders supposed to be examples? I mean, how can we look up to our leaders when they are constantly point the finger of blame, ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET By Their Testimony: A New Perspective on Faith, Conclusion July 6, 2021 We are moving all of the Sermon Illustrator files to a new, mobile-friendly format, and this has required hours of tediously copying old files, pasting them into the new format, and then reading them through in order to put them in appropriate categories. I am happy to report, however, that in undertaking this arduous task, I have been incredibly blessed. I ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Road on the Map: A New Perspective on Faith, Part 6 July 3, 2021 There it was. That little black line on the map leading to a remote hot spring in Grenada. And where there's a black line on the map, there must be a road. When the entrance to the road was where it was indicated on the map, we took courage. We pointed the nose of our car in the right direction and started to drive. As is so ofte ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Man Who Didn't Die: A New Perspective on Faith, Part 5 July 1, 2021 We aren't told much about Enoch in the Bible. In fact, the sum of our knowledge comes from a few verses. First of all, we know his parentage: /"When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch...When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah..." /(Gen. 5:18,19 NLT). ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET *The Research: A New Perspective on Faith, Part 4* June 29, 2021 My son, a PhD student, had fallen behind on his research. Much of this was due to a major comprehensive exam that, complicated by the fact that the university closed down due to COVID-19, took almost two semesters to complete. As a result, he was unable to meet his research paper deadlines for the year. Then, days after the exam was finally completed, a foreign st ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Seed: A New Perspective on Faith, Part 3 June 26, 2021 On Tuesday and Thursday this past week, I told the story of how we built garden boxes and filled them with dirt, and how this gave me a whole new perspective on mountain-moving faith and the faith that Abraham must have had when he left his home to wander in a foreign land for -- four generations! -- without ever seeing the realization of the promise. ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Empty Garden Beds: A New Perspective on Faith, Part 2 June 24, 2021 On Tuesday, I told the story of how God moved my mountain -- literally! -- as my husband and I attempted to move 7 cu meters of gardening soil from our driveway to our new garden beds, one shovelful at a time, and all before the rains came. The garden beds were finished then. They were completely ready to plant, just wait ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Mountain: A New Perspective on Faith, Introduction June 22, 2021 Yesterday there was a mountain on my driveway. Literally! Early in the morning a dump truck dropped 7 cu yards of gardening soil just in front of my garage. It would have to be moved – shovelful by shovelful into a wheel barrow, and then shovelful by shovelful -- into the raised garden beds we had built the day before out of conc ...Continue Reading