Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible,

discipleship and evangelization, putting it all together and living as activated disciples.

This is Show 274, The Art of Learning and Taking Notes.

Okay, so I have been getting mail. I have been getting emails and all kinds of messages.

Because lately I've been talking about learning and it's connecting. I'm getting people saying,

you know, what you have been talking about the last four or five weeks and also saying,

hey, I did see you on Matt Frag show, you know, pints with Aquinas and with Christopher West,

so they saw it, me talking about the art of learning and creativity and they said,

I want to learn more about that. So that's what you're going to get today.

The art of learning and taking notes, I'm going to tell you a little bit about how I take notes.

And I, you know, over the years, I have put out an awful lot of material with the great adventure

Bible study that's 24 hours of teaching. And that doesn't come about just by sitting down and

saying, well, I'm going to do 24 hours of teaching. It really comes as a result of gathering together

what you have learned and how you have connected it and deciding on how you're going to present it.

You know, and so it really does take time and doing anything that's worth doing does take time.

And it is work. But today, today, my friend, I'm going to tell you a little bit about how I go

about taking notes and what my library looks like and my fascination with collecting ideas.

Some people collect cars. Some people collect baseball cards. Some people collect coins.

I collect ideas. And I take those ideas and I bring them into the world of Jesus' world,

the kingdom of God. And I can, I can tell pretty quick whether that's a good idea or that's not

such a good idea because what we're doing as we evolve and grow in our in our faith is that we

are becoming wiser and more knowledgeable about the ways of God, the kingdom of God. And so we want

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