In response to recent requests from subscribers, the Nugget will be featuring a devotional based on the book of Psalms once a month. We pray you will be blessed by this focus on the one book of the Bible that Jesus quoted the most. Over the past fewLessons From the...
"Seek the Kingdom of God above all else... and he will give you everything you need." (Matthew 6:33) I was looking over the list, the never ending 'To Do' list, crossing things off, adding tasks, rearranging the items according to today's priorities. "There is no end...
It's one of the saddest stories in the Bible. Amnon, son of King David, head-over heels in lust with his half-sister, Tamar, devises a plan to be alone with her, and he rapes her. (See 2 Samuel 13) There are so many lessons to be learned from this story: The dangers...
God has been speaking to me a lot lately about the complacency of the church and how it so often shirks its responsibilities to the love one another. In fact, regarding the majority of the North American church, God recently gave me Psalms 102:6-7: "I am like an owl...
When a small child asks, "where did I come from?" you give an answer appropriate to age and understanding. As time goes on, knowledge and understanding increase and the child takes it in. The Lord treats His people similarly. As they develop in knowledge and...
Last week, in Building Solomon's Temple, Part 1, we discovered the importance of the preparations we do for building our heart-temples. But just how can we prepare to build something as abstract as a "heart-temple?" We look to David and Solomon for the answers: "With...
In the second part of our series on learning lessons on the importance of obedience during this Christmas season, let's focus initially on what disobedience actually stands for in order we better grasp the paramount significance of obedience. For better understanding,...
Beloved saint, has it ever occurred to you that planning is one factor which distinguishes between "a wishful thinking and purposeful accomplishment". It is a factor that differentiates between an achiever and mediocre. Working out there as a businessman or woman or...
Dealing with grief is perhaps one of the hardest things that we, as humans, must do. Grief may be rooted in a death or illness, or it may be rooted in a loss, such as the loss of support, the loss of a spouse through divorce, the loss of a job, or even the feelings of...
"And Hamar and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying, These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade in it. And the land-behold, it is of wide extent before them. We will take their...