Welcome To THE NUGGET Gentle Pentecost By: Kari Vo ----------------------------------------------- June 12, 2025 "So Peter ... said: 'Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him. ... God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, fo ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Trust in the Lord By: Paul Smyth ----------------------------------------------- June 10, 2025 Do you have trust issues? Well, I do. When people say they’ll do one thing, and don’t follow through, I lose trust. When the weather forecast calls for sunshine and a blue sky, but I wake up and find it raining and dreary, my confidence wains. When my auto mechanic tells me it’s just a small repair, but ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Comforter By: Alice Burnett ----------------------------------------------- June 7, 2025 Lucky-the-Clothy is a long strip of green gingham fabric from the fifties, a random piece of cloth a neighbour once gave me. It got its name when my friend, Penny, and I used it to tie our legs together for a three-legged race, when we were both eleven years old. We won the race! ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Testing God? The Time Before the Kings, Part 9 By: Lyn Chaffart ----------------------------------------------- June 5, 2025 Last week, in “Managing False Gods: The Time Before the Kings, Part 8”, we saw that the way to tell the True God from a false god is that the One True God will NEVER let you down! Perhaps one of the most well-known parts of Gideon's story is th ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Planting Seed  By: Kari Vo ----------------------------------------------- June 3, 2025 "And He [Jesus] said, 'The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, at o ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Managing False Gods: The Time Before the Kings, Part 8 By: Lyn Chaffart ----------------------------------------------- May 31, 2025 Last week, in “A Lesson in Prevention: The Time Before the Kings, Part 7”, we saw that when troubles arise, the Lord may decide to deal with the root of the problem! The people had been warned by the prophet of God. Some, like Gideon, t ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET A Day Spent in Appreciation By: Joe Mazzella ---------------------------- May 29, 2025 It was a day in late Spring that felt like a day in early Summer. The sun had risen in the morning and the temperatures were rising into the eighties. The sky was blue sprinkled with a few white clouds here and there. Golden sunlight was falling on the earth making the green leaves of the trees glow. Outside the ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Waiting on God Through the Storm By: Paul Smyth ----------------------------------------------- May 27, 2025 I’m not sure about you, but I really don’t like waiting for things to happen, and the older I get, the more this holds true. For example. I dislike waiting in lines or in traffic jams. I have a strong aversion to waiting for people to get back to me, and I especially don’t have the pat ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET A Lesson in Prevention: The Time Before the Kings, Part 7 By: Lyn Chaffart ----------------------------------------------- May 24, 2025 Last week, in “Sing a New Song: The Time Before the Kings, Part 6”, we saw that we need to record the specifics of God’s blessings and remember them, so that when future troubles come, we will understand and remember that His mercies begin anew every day, and we w ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Promises By: Kari Vo ----------------------------------------------- May 22, 2025 "I write these things to you who believe in the Name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the request ...Continue Reading