![]() ![]() Available as a card deck (9780310116417) or eBook version (9780310130437)ĭesigned for use with the following items, each sold separately:.Allow time for anyone who wants to share or respond.Take turns having each woman ask the question on her card.Refer to them as needed for help processing as you share. Lay out the Scripture cards for that week.Allow each woman to choose her favorite card.Lay out the cards for the week, questions facing up.Then, during the group meetings, they share their insights from their personal study, watch a teaching video, then move into the ASK portion of the meeting using the Get Out of Your Head Conversation Cards to ask questions such as What keeps you from believing you can control your thought life?, or, What are you afraid of if you surrender your rights? ![]() The lessons in Restless are designed for women to dig deeply into Scripture for themselves and complete study projects on their own. ![]() In Get Out of Your Head, Jennie gives us tools from the book of Philippians to stop the spiral of toxic thoughts, and transform our emotions, our outlook, and even our circumstances, by taking control of our minds. The visionary behind the million-strong IF:Gathering, Jennie Allen, challenges you to exercise your God-given power to shift negative thinking patterns and take back control of your thoughts and emotions. Other people have better lives than I do. Are your th oughts holding you captive? I’ll never be good enough. ![]()
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Kiyosaki left the Marine Corps in 1975 and got a job selling copy machines for the Xerox Corporation as a salesperson. ![]() He served in the Marine Corps as a helicopter gunship pilot during the Vietnam War in 1972, where he was awarded the Air Medal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Questa è la storia del tentativo di rendere concreto un principio astratto come quello dell’uguaglianza, la storia di chi, dentro le aule scolastiche, ha cercato di rimuovere gli ostacoli, di inventare una pratica trasformando l’ideologia democratica in pratica democratica. In quelle condizioni, di fronte ad un problema così grande, come potevamo insegnare la libertà noi che non l’avevamo vissuta? Che cosa voleva dire “e ogni altro mezzo”?». ![]() Ecco, ricorda Lodi, «noi siamo stati buttati allo sbaraglio quando abbiamo vinto il concorso magistrale. 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