Welcome To THE NUGGET I Can't Hear You Through the Noise: Where Is God When It Hurts? Part 2 By: Kenn Stright ----------------------------------------------- June 4, 2026 "He said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’ Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Serious Preparation, Part 2: The Result By: Lyn Chaffart ---------------------------- May 30, 2026 Last week, in Serious Preparation, Part 1, we saw that when our Biblical forefathers and heroes, specifically Nehemiah, made a request to God, their prayers looked a bit different than most of ours. Maybe if our prayers were less about what we want and more on who God is, maybe if we spent more time ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Thorn in the Flesh: Where Is God When It Hurts? Part 1 By: Kenn Stright ----------------------------------------------- May 28, 2026 "…if I wish to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think better of me than what is seen in me or heard from me, even considering the exceptional character of the revelations. Therefore, to ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET I Will Carry You By: Paul Smyth ---------------------------- May 26, 2026 This coming week, my dear wife, Diane, celebrates, in her words, a significant birthday. Not old by any stretch of the imagination, she has people telling her on a regular basis that she does not look her age. By God’s grace, that’s a win! It’s not just because I am her husband of 37 years and bound to always say the right t ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Serious Preparation, Part 1 By: Lyn Chaffart ----------------------------------------------- May 23, 2026 What do you do when faced with a situation that makes you feel nervous, even afraid? Yet it must be addressed in order for something you want very badly to be accomplished? Maybe you want to talk to your immediate supervisor about being transferred to a different ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Where Is God When It Hurts? Introduction By: Kenn Stright ----------------------------------------------- May 21, 2026 Philip Yancey wrote a wonderful book entitled, “Where is God when it Hurts?” and it takes the most pressing problems of life and asks where God is in the midst of them. And the surprising answer is that God is where God has always been, God is in Christ reconciling the world. And ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Do You Need Rest? By: Paul Smyth ----------------------------------------------- May 19, 2026 Are you feeling tired, burned out, steamrolled, and just plain out of gas? Are your shoes worn out, and the hamster wheel you are treading upon is going faster and faster, and you can’t seem to find a way off? I know from life experience that we all feel this way occasionally and that our busy lives have ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Trudge By: Lynne Phipps ---------------------------- May 16, 2026 My dogs and I try to walk every day.  Some days I find that we seem to fly around our route.  Our time passes quickly and pleasantly and is over all too soon.  Other days it’s more like a trudge. The Oxford dictionary defines the word trudge this way: to walk slowly and with heavy steps, typically because of exhau ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Of One Heart and Soul By: Kari Vo ---------------------------- May 14, 2026 "Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. Ther ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Unseen Enemy By: Paul Smyth ----------------------------------------------- May 12, 2026 Have you ever been engaged or embattled with an enemy? In the physical world, an enemy can come in the form of many different things. Speaking for myself, sometimes I perceive the enemy as the weather, especially when I have plans outside and it’s raining, or where I live, two feet of snow in 24 hours. Oth ...Continue Reading