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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.

Dead Sea Christians

LUKE 9:24 – For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  DEAD SEA CHRISTIANS.  Two of the ugliest things a Christian may allow in their lives are first, holding God’s truth in the heart and proclaiming it without love. As Francis Schaeffer once said, “Biblical…

Gospel-Seasoned Speech

LUKE 4:16-22 -And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is…

Owned By The Lord

PSALM 119:94 – I am yours; save me, for I have sought your precepts.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  OWNED BY THE LORD.  As we live the Christian life, we proclaim the Lord is “my” Lord; Jesus is “my” Savior and many other expressions of us claiming as our own the One True Living God.  And this is right.   Christianity is…

The Gift of Suffering

PSALM 119:67 – Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.”   THEME OF THE DAY:  THE GIFT OF SUFFERING.  I wonder how many of us would answer my following statement with an affirming and resounding “Yes, I knew that and I do embrace my seasons of suffering as such.”  Now the statement backed up by the…

Growing In The Grace and Knowledge of Jesus Christ

EPHESIANS 4:20-24 – But that is not the way you learned Christ!—assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put…