Welcome To THE NUGGET Do Not Lead Us Into Temptation: The Perfect Prayer, Part 8 By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- November 9, 2024 Last Saturday, in The Perfect Prayer, Part 7, we saw that in order to maintain our relationship with God, to save our hearts, minds and souls from the poisonous darts of unresolved anger, and to avoid being hypocritical, we must forgive others when they have hurt us. We mu ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Blessing of Obedience By: Alice Burnett --------------------------------- November 7, 2024 Remembrance Day in Canada is November 11 “What Remembrance Day Means to Me”. Have any of you written a high school essay that begins this way? My husband's efforts to do so won him a prize. We no longer have the essay, but Terry told me what he had written. His Uncle Allen fought with the ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET When God's Way Makes -- NO Sense! By: Paul Smyth ---------------------------- November 5, 2024 Are you in the middle of a situation or life experience that is woefully unpleasant? Are you up to your neck in a trial that seems entirely illogical? Do you struggle with trying to understand God’s plan and wonder when the gooey mud on your shoes will finally wash off and the path ahead will be paved an ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET ...As We Forgive Our Debtors: The Perfect Prayer, Part 7 By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- November 2, 2024 Last Saturday, in The Perfect Prayer, Part 6, we saw that we must come to the place where we ask God to reveal our sins to us, so that we can confess them, renounce them and repent of them. Anyone familiar with the Lord’s Prayer knows that “For ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Not the Way We Were By: Alice Burnett --------------------------------- October 31, 2024 When I was a child, I absorbed the message that achievement was everything. Of all the life-lessons I learned as I grew up, the one that my parents emphasized the most was doing well in school. Not only to do well, but to to excel. My parents did not have the opportunity for higher education, so they expected ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Expedience or Truth? By: Kary Vo --------------------------------- October 29, 2024 "And when He [Jesus] entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to Him as He was teaching, and said, 'By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?' Jesus answered them, 'I also will ask you one question, and if you tell Me the answer, then I als ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET And Forgive Us Our Debts... The Perfect Prayer, Part 6 By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- October 26, 2024 Last Saturday, in The Perfect Prayer, Part 5, we saw that after acknowledging that our God is our perfect Daddy who is holy, and we need to ensure that we honour the holiness of His name; after ensuring that the principles of God’s Kingdom are reflected in our lives; after ens ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Leaning on Jesus By: Kari Vo --------------------------------- October 25, 2024 "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Peace By: Rod Marshall --------------------------------- October 22, 2023 "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid." (John 14:27 ESV) This verse was spoken first to His apostles and tells of a peace which Jesus expects to bring in ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Different Tools for Different Jobs October 20, 2024 I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. ~ John 15:1 NLT ~ I was struggling with deboning a chicken breast. Why is this job so hard? I wondered, the meat slithering and slipping between my fingers as I hacked away with a big butcher knife. The meat was looking a bit mutilated. “Use a boning k ...Continue Reading