Desirable difficulty is an established aid to learning 

https://youtu.be/nlzvM1wf8mc

https://learningspy.co.uk/featured/deliberately-difficult-focussing-on-learning-rather-than-progress-2/  

Learning slower 

Making learning harder 

What do you professional educators think? 

True for our hearers, but also ourselves as we prepare to speak. 

Today we’ll focus on reading 

Paul knew his Old Testament 

And other writers….. 

“‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’” (Acts 17:28 NIV11) 

“One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”” (Titus 1:12 NIV11) 

Are we reading widely enough, and, just as importantly, material we find intellectually challenging? 

Indeed, challenging enough to make us read slowly 

I have a book like that at the moment: Andy Boakye's book: “Death and Life" (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0792MYXJ7/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)

I’m reading it slowly because I need to: 

Re-read sentences 

Check references 

Put notes into Bible software 

The benefits are many, but they include 

New ideas 

New connections 

What reading is stretching you? 

We need to know more than we’re saying 

Please add your comments on this week’s topic. We learn best when we learn in community. 

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“Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.” (Psalms 100:2 NIV11)

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