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What's in the Grind of Your Mind?
Featured July 24, 2017
John Cassian joins us to consider how our minds act like a water-wheel-driven millstones, constantly turning, revolving. Although we cannot stop the motion, we can control what gets fed into grinder — whether God’s Word and spiritual things or idleness, worry, and gossip. We must choose wisely.
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