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Daily Nugget

Hebrews 4:12 – For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

The Daily Nugget is a weekday devotional written by Pastor Jim Sole. We hope you find encouragement, guidance, and conviction unto holiness through the scriptures and commentary.

Lessons From A Fish Belly

JONAH 1:1-4; 17; 2:1, 9-10 – Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship…

He Only Uses The Weak And Broken

2 CORINTHIANS 4:7 – But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. THEME OF THE DAY. HE ONLY USES THE WEAK AND BROKEN. What are the qualifications a person must possess to be used by the Lord? Well, let’s provide what is not required, and in fact, are…

The Danger In Making Assumptions

GENESIS 50:14-21 – After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.” So they…

Human Beings Not Human Doings

PSALM 69:20 – Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. THEME OF THE DAY. HUMAN BEINGS NOT HUMAN DOINGS. My wife walked to my desk and said, “Please read this.” It was a Facebook post from someone we did not know. It was…

A Ministry For All Practiced By Few

HEBREWS 3:12-14 – Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ, if…

The Devil And Our Past

PHILIPPIANS 3:13–15 – Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in…