Welcome To THE NUGGET The Flat Tire By: Lynne Phipps ---------------------------------------  September 5, 2023 Each time I take my granddaughters for a walk, I make sure that I check the stroller tires, as one of them has a tendency to lose air and become flat. As I was using the air compressor to top up the tires the other day, I, too, was feeling rather flat: flat in spirit. I'm n ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Denying Self By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- September 2, 2023 We had an "ouchy" sermon at church. You know what I mean. The kind that you don't really want to hear, because in the back of your conscience you can hear the Holy Spirit speaking forth clearly: This message is for YOU! The sermon was based on Matthew 16: "Then Jesus said ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Look and Notice By: Diane Eaton ---------------------------------------  August 31, 2023 "I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me." (Habukkuk 2:1a NIV) Just look. That's all I had to do while relaxing in a lawn chair on the deck in the backyard of my brother's farmhouse. I quickly discovere ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Sinking Sand By: Paul Smyth --------------------------------- August 29, 2023 Have you ever stood on a sun-baked beach and allowed the frothy white surf to wash over your feet as it rolls ashore? Have you felt the sand beneath your toes erode away as the water slips back out, only to be replaced by another wave seconds later? The few times I've had the pleasure of ex ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Handicapped Christians By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- August 26, 2023 Through my time in ministry, I have met many, many handicapped Christians. And yes, I have met many with physical handicaps; but this isn't the type of handicap I'm talking about here. Rather, I'm talking about people who have been washed clean by the blood of the Lord Jesus Chr ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Planting and Harvesting By: Kari Vo --------------------------------- August 24, 2023 "Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Unconsolable By: Pam Novoa --------------------------------- August 22, 2023 I am the recipient of a miracle. After three miscarriages, I am the proud mom to a 3-month old health, happy baby boy. Things, however, aren't always perfect. Take, for example, the day a friend and I took him with us to the mall for some shopping... Needless t ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET "Tick"tation By: Lyn Chaffart --------------------------------- August 19, 2023 It was tick season in Southern Ontario, Canada. And had been tick season for quite some time! In fact, it seemed that this tick season was longer lasting and more ferocious than some... You'd think I would have learned after the first outing i ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Lifeguard By: Sharon Lundquist --------------------------------- August 17, 2023 During the past two years, a water exercise class that I enjoyed was shut down due to the pandemic. Recently, because there were too few certified lifeguards available, its reopening was delayed. Lifeguards are essential to the safe and legal operation of a pool. I remembered learning to swim as a child, and I always ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Hot Potatoes By: Paul Smyth --------------------------------- August 15 , 2023 Odd question, but have you every burned your fingers on a blistering-hot baked potato? I’d venture to say that if you spend any time in a kitchen, you have. Second question. What’s the first thing you do with that burn-your-fingerprints-off potato? Maybe you hurriedly toss it onto a plate ...Continue Reading