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A Reality of this Life

Page – 264 – The Bottle House Chaplain Miller cleared his throat, then leaned forward. “It sounds like you have realized that people cannot always be strong, always make the right choices, and always be successful. This is part of living in a fallen world—one turned upside down by Adam and Eve in the Garden
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The Value of Sparrows

Pages 260-261 – The Bottle House “Stacy, I’m holding one of God’s promises right here. Do you know what kind of feather this is?” “No, I don’t know much about birds at all.” “This is a feather from a sparrow—the most common bird in the world. They’re everywhere, nesting in top windows of our cities’
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Great Expectations

Page 248 – The Bottle House Chaplain Miller nodded. “It’s often easier to see the weaknesses in others before we see our own. I think what’s really causing you some anger is that you expect followers of God to be different than they are.” “Is it wrong to expect those in leadership of Christian ministries
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We All Have Scars

Page 234 – The Bottle House Chaplain Miller took a sip of his coffee. “We all have scars that affect how we interactwith each other. For some reason, people think those who work in a church or church-run organizations should be perfect, but this incorrect thinking leads to all sorts ofproblems. Perfection belongs to God.
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God’s Broken Heart

Page 226 – The Bottle House “I think it can be a dangerous thing to give allegiance to someone or something blindly, especially in spiritual matters. This is how heartbreaking things like what happened in the seventies with the followers of Jim Jones come about.” (Chaplain Miller said.) “I remember reading about that horrible event
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The Definition of Resentment

Pages 224-225 – The Bottle House “When you harbor resentment, it’s a dead end— emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. The word resent originally meant ‘to feel again,’ almost as if you are saying to yourself whatever you resent over, and over, and over. This is bad because these feelings often lead you on a downward spiral
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Who Is In Control?

Page 221 – The Bottle House Chaplain Miller stood while picking up the sky-blue bottle with Stefan’s name on it. “It’s clear that you hurt tremendously for your wife and your clients. God sees your pain, Stefan.” After a brief pause, he said, “There is something I want you to think about. Sometimes we give
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God Cares About You

Page 200 – The Bottle House Chaplain Miller smiled. He glanced at the (red) bottle, then held her gaze. “Sometimes it’s hard to have faith that the God of all the universe would care about the lives of his children. When I have paused to consider this, it is an amazing thing that I, one
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The Nature of Love

Page 199 – The Bottle House “God is who he is.” Chaplain Miller’s tone only held kindness, not judgment. “He is a God who loves us so completely that his actions or non-actions are always for our good. He loves you enough to die for you. As your baby grows and moves from your womb
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The Difficulty of Faith

Page 199 – The Bottle House “Stacy, there’s never a time that God is not watchingover you and acting for your good. That’s not the difficultpart of our faith. It’s easier to trust God for a miracle inour lives, but it’s much more difficult to trust when thatmiracle does not arrive. That is the difficulty
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