Today on the Daily Nugget, Mike digs into Jesus’ call to love—love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and love one another. Tomorrow, we’ll take the next hard step and talk about loving our enemies. This kind of love isn’t partial or compartmentalized. It’s not just part of us Jesus wants—it’s all of us.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike talks about Jesus’ command to worship Him, drawing from John 4 and the triumphal entry where Jesus intentionally orchestrates worship as He enters Jerusalem. He shows that worship is not something Jesus merely receives when it happens naturally—it’s something He invites, commands, and even arranges, because it rightly reveals who He is. In both moments, Jesus calls people to respond to His true identity with hearts fully turned toward Him.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike focuses on Jesus’ call to pray to the Lord of the harvest to raise up more workers, drawing from Matthew’s Gospel. He emphasizes that God’s desire is not simply to fill roles, but to form people with the heart of Christ—men and women shaped by His compassion for the lost. As true shepherds for wandering sheep, we are invited to pray not only for more workers, but for lives transformed to love, see, and share the gospel the way Jesus does.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike focuses on Jesus’ calls to prayer and worship, showing that they are not optional spiritual add-ons but central to life with God. Drawing from Luke 18:1, Matthew 5:44, Matthew 7:7, and John 4:24, he explores how Jesus invites us into persistent prayer, prayer that loves our enemies, bold asking, and worship that flows from Spirit and truth. These commands aren’t burdens—they are invitations into deeper trust, intimacy, and alignment with the heart of the Father.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike talks about obedience—not as religious duty, but as a gift that deepens our relationship with God and brings real freedom into our lives. Obedience isn’t how we earn God’s love; it’s how we respond to it as the Spirit forms Christ in us. Drawing from a chapter in his Fruit of the Spirit book, Mike shows how obedience is one of the primary ways we cultivate spiritual fruit and grow in intimacy with the Lord. When we trust God enough to obey, even when it’s costly, we discover that His ways truly lead to life.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike focuses on belief and faith—the foundation of being made right with God and the foundation for the Holy Spirit working powerfully in our lives. Jesus makes it clear from the very beginning that everything starts here. In Mark 1:15 He calls us to repent and believe the good news, and in John 14:1 He invites us to believe in God and believe also in Him.
Belief is not just mental agreement; it is trusting our lives to the One the Father has sent. When we truly believe, our allegiance shifts, our hearts open, and the Spirit of God is given room to move, transform, and bear fruit in us. Faith is the doorway—everything else flows from there.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike explores Jesus’ command to follow Him. Drawing from Matthew 4:19, Matthew 16:24, and John 15:4, we reflect on what it truly means to be a disciple—leaving our old paths, taking up our cross, and learning to abide in Christ day by day.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike shares the first two verses for this study from Matthew 4 and John 4: Repent and be born again. We are called to change our allegiance and do a complete 180—and the only way we can do that is through the Spirit of God coming in and transforming us as we are born again.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike kicks off a brand-new series on the commandments of Jesus, rooted in His words from John 14 and 15: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” Mike reflects honestly on his own journey with obedience — and it may surprise you that he hasn’t always been a fan. But through the Gospel, he’s discovered that obedience isn’t about pressure or performance; it’s about love, freedom, and walking in the life God designed for us. Join us as we learn how loving Jesus and keeping His commands can truly change everything.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike shares more from his writing retreat to AZ and another God story. He shares how God put him with the exact right person to help him navigate a very difficult section he was trying to tackle in his book on the Fruit of the Spirit.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike shares insights from his writing retreat, reflecting on what God has been teaching him about healing and restoration. He tells the story of how God led him to read a book on these topics and then brought a woman into his life who was struggling. Mike had the opportunity to share the gospel with her, pray for her, and guide her toward healing and restoration. Tune in for a reminder of how God uses both learning and everyday encounters to bring hope and transformation.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike does a quick catch-up on what God is leading Him into for 2026. He shares some of the things coming up on the Daily Nugget in the next couple months. He has an amazing God story to tell too!
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike shares a Christmas reflection from Philippians 2, focusing on the incredible humility of Jesus. Though He is the majestic, worshiped, and glorious King of heaven, Jesus willingly set all of that aside and entered our world in the most humble way imaginable—becoming a single cell for us. In doing so, He modeled true humility, showing us what it looks like to live with love, obedience, and selflessness, and inviting us to reflect that same humility in how we live and serve others.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike shares the number one reason he believes in Christianity. Quite simply, if someone said, ‘Mike, you have five minutes to convince me Christianity is true,’ the answer would be this: it works. Following God changes every part of your life for the better. It brings purpose, peace, forgiveness, and hope—not because life becomes easy, but because God transforms the heart. Christianity isn’t just something to believe; it’s something to live, and when it’s lived, it changes everything.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike reflects on the astonishing precision required for life in our universe. As Hugh Ross explains in his article on the probability of life on Earth, the number of conditions that must align for our planet to support life is so extraordinarily improbable that it essentially points beyond random chance. From the fine-tuning of the physical constants to the specific conditions on Earth, these factors work together in such a precise way that the best explanation isn’t blind luck—it’s a Creator God who designed the universe with purpose. This scientific improbability reinforces the biblical truth that the world didn’t form by accident, but by the intentional act of a wise and powerful God.”
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike talks about the existence of sin and how it points us beyond ourselves. As humans, we want to see ourselves as good, so we often create our own standards—standards that are lower than God’s—measuring ourselves by being nice neighbors or simply not worse than the next person. Yet deep down, we all recognize when we do something wrong, and that awareness shows there is a moral standard greater than us. That truth leads us to the meaning behind the colors of Christmas: red reminds us that Jesus took our sin and died for us, white reminds us that He makes us clean and pure, and green reminds us that because of Him, we are given new life and the chance to grow.”
Read More“Today on the Daily Nugget, Mike talks about love—an emotion that shows us our world is more than just physical. Feelings like love, kindness, and joy point to something beyond what we can see and touch. These experiences remind us that there is a spiritual part of our world, and the best explanation for that spiritual reality is the existence of a loving, spiritual God who made us and gave us the ability to love.”
“Today on the Daily Nugget, Mike reflects on how God exists outside of time and how that truth makes the most sense of our linear experience of time and the universe’s clear beginning. Time itself had a starting point, which points us toward a timeless Creator—One who isn’t bound by seconds, minutes, or years, but who stands sovereign over past, present, and future. Understanding God as the One outside of time helps us recognize His greatness and the foundation for why anything exists at all.”
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike focuses on how God provides for us as a clear reminder that He is real. Through personal stories of God’s provision in his own life and in the life of the church over the years, we are reminded again and again that our God is sovereign, faithful, and deeply personal. Each story points to the truth that our loving Heavenly Father knows our needs, cares for His children, and delights in giving good gifts to those who trust Him.
Read MoreToday on the Daily Nugget, Mike focuses on morality as a powerful reason to believe in God as part of the ongoing series on reasons to believe. We all live as if right and wrong truly exist—not just as personal opinions, but as real moral truths that apply to everyone. Yet if morality is only a human invention, then no action is ultimately good or evil, only preferred or disliked. The fact that we recognize true moral obligation points to a moral Lawgiver, giving strong evidence that God is real and that His truth is written on every human heart.
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