Welcome To THE NUGGET Embrace Each Moment March 2, 2021 "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." (1 Cor. 10:13 NIV) I have literally wasted years of my life.  Oh, it didn't happen all at once.  It was a few minutes here and a few minutes there, but in the end it has added up to years. I have wasted so much of my time on regrets.  I have looked back on th ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The REST of the Story February 27, 2021 We've all been there. Someone does something that annoys us. Maybe it slows us down and makes us late for work. Maybe it's road rage. Maybe they spray poison on the plants we just purchased and planted. Maybe they jump the line. Maybe they shovel their snow onto the road, and the plow comes through and piles their snow at the end of our driveway. Can't people be more considerate of each o ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET God's Better Than Life February 25, 2021 /"You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water."/ (Ps. 63:1 NIV) I grew up in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge Occupation. I remember that on April 17, 1975, it was announced by the government that those who lived in the capitol city of Phnom Penh had t ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Groomer February 23, 2021 "The path of the righteous is level; O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth." (Isaiah 26:7 NIV) What a delight it is when I am walking the dogs in the winter, to get to the bush trail and find that the groomer has been through making ready for the cross-country skiers. The soft deep snow, so difficult to walk in, has been flatten down into a ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Nervous... February 20, 2021 I don't know why certain things make me nervous, but they do. Take, for example, the little dinner party I had planned for our neighbours yesterday. When I awoke yesterday morning, I was literally shaking, even though I had already done all the work in advance! And then there was this morning. I had been invited to share a God-story at church. I was prepared, I had pra ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Generational Curses: Deliverance Through Jesus! February 18, 2021 I didn't know Jesus as my Lord and Savior when I was a child. I remember when I was back in Cambodia, I used to hear my sister say, "I hate that person so and so, I hate his generation and all of his generation after him!" Even though I wasn't a follower of Jesus at the time, I was never in agreement with her statement. It ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Why Give Thanks? Give Thanks to the Lord, Part 2 February 16, 2021 Last Saturday, in "Giving god the Praise, Part 1: How Much is Enough", we came to understand that it is important that we praise God with at least the same intensity that we pray for our miracle. Wait. Why should we have to say thanks as many times as we have prayed? Doesn't God know our heart? Isn't one thank-you enough ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET How Much Is Enough? Give Thanks to the Lord, Part 1 February 13, 2021 The Bible tells us to rejoice in our suffering (See James 1:2-5; Rom 3:3-5) and to give thanks to the Lord in ALL things (See 1 Thess. 5:17; Col. 3:17). Why is it that we have so much trouble doing that? I mean, I don't know about you, but in the face of a job loss, a death in the family, a bad diagnosis, the last thing on m ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Slow to Anger February 11, 2021 "The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love." (Psalm 103:8 NIV) "The Lord is slow to anger and filled with unfailing love, forgiving every kind of sin and rebellion." (Numbers 14:18 NIV) Throughout the Old Testament, God's people continuously rebelled and repented and every time, withou ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET A Contrite Heart February 9, 2021 "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite." (Isaiah 57:15b ESV) Recently I knew something was amiss between the The Prince of Peace and myself. It is true I have been fighting the battle against life's curve-balls sustained over ...Continue Reading