Welcome To THE NUGGET When You're Up Against the Impossible: Uncle to the Rescue, Part 1 By: Lyn Chaffart ----------------------------------------------- January 5, 2024 Abraham, or Abram as he was called at the time of this story, was seriously outnumbered. His men were shepherds, servants from his own household, untrained warriors. Abram himself was an old man, well into his 80s. Nonetheless, he left his home, taking ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Gift in the Drawer By: Alice Burnett ----------------------------------------------- January 4, 2023 It was early January, and all the costumes and props for the Sunday School Christmas play had long been tidied up and put away. All except one, I thought. A wrapped gift lay in my drawer. I was in charge of the Sunday School, so kept stuff in the old desk. Wonder what that's doing there? Looks ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Carpe Diem By: Alice Burnett ----------------------------------------------- January 2, 2024 “This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 NLT) In the New Year, people typically make resolutions focusing on changes and plans they want to implement in their lives. I'd like, instead, to use the expression carpe diem, Latin for “s ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Doing the Best You Can in the New Year By: Lyn Chaffart ---------------------------------- December 30, 2023 2024 is just around the corner. What is your wish for the New Year? What will your resolution be? 15 days before Christmas in 2022, my oldest son got married. It was a small wedding, and since the bride’s family was in Asia at the time and wouldn’t be able to ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Indescribable Gift By: Lynne Phipps ----------------------------------------------- December 28, 2023 “Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!” (2 Corinthians 9:15 NIV) Another Christmas has come and gone. The children were enthralled with the tree and the piles of brightly wrapped gifts beneath it. They couldn't wait to start handing out presents and then t ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET But the Lord By: Diane Eaton ---------------------------------- December 26, 2023 Perhaps you recall a day when your supervisor listed several impressive qualities in you. Then came that word, "but". You braced yourself, for whatever came next would surely undo everything that had been said. That's the nature of that dreadful word "but". It has an uncanny way of reversing every ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET The Star By: Mary Ellen Miller --------------------------------------- December 23, 2023 “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE ILLUSTRATOR Sharing My Jesus This Christmas December 22, 2023 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? ~ Romans 10:14 NIV ~ Last year, our Christmas celebration was made even more special by a wedding. Our oldest son was joined in marriage to a lovely girl from China.  The story of course doesn’t start here. We first met the gi ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Chosen By: Vincent Walters ---------------------------------- December 21, 2023 Being chosen is a stark contrast to being rejected. Do you remember when you were young, playing a game, and waiting to be chosen for one side or the other? Even later in life, when you applied for an employment position, remember how you longed to be chosen and not rejected. It may be that at festive occasions like Ch ...Continue Reading

Welcome To THE NUGGET Upside Down By: Kari Vo ---------------------------------- December 19, 2023 “In those days Mary arose and went with haste ... and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord sho ...Continue Reading