It hasn’t been until now that I made flash cards for Greek. I thought I could just use the book and go back and forth. Was I ever wrong. Take them out of the order they are in the book and I’m lost. Plus some need to be reviewed more often than others. I first realized this when I read a blog post about having a three pile flashcard system. So when Dave Black posted PDF files of all the words in his beginning grammar, I printed them. Thankfully we have a (dull) paper cutter and I got it done. But now I’m so far behind I’ve mainly been working on vocabulary.
I also have the workbook and would like to spend more time with that and reading Mounce’s book but I just don’t have time/energy to spend doing that much. Maybe after I get the vocab solid. I really need to utilize the workbook to get at it from different angles.
It’s been too long since I’ve written. I finished the commentary on John. I read The Prayer of the Lord and How To Enjoy Your Bible which I’ll be doing reviews on. Both were more introductory than I thought and have their problems but were very good. Sproul seemed to get providence and provision mixed up which was strange. And even worse, he used the old Greek dynamis being like dynamite analogy! I lost some respect for his scholarship.
Reading the OT has been great. I’m about 11 days ahead at this point. I should be done with it by mid-summer instead of the scheduled Sept. 24. I’m trying to decide if I should finish off my NT commentary reading of Luke and Acts now or wait until next year. If I do it now I really want to get them done by the time I’m done reading the OT. The rest of the year will be spent reading the Handbook on Pentateuch, some OT theology, Finding Jesus in the OT etc.
Right now I’ve been reading some free chapters from books on intros to the Pent. and reading intros in the ESV and NLT SB’s.
I requested a commentary on Ps and Prov from Tyndale after I saw Jim West review it. That would be great. I want a 3 volume set and 2 vol. set respectively but that would use up more than my book budget right now just for two books of the Bible. I really want something for Proverbs though.
I’ve been feeling a little better lately. The switch from the generic to name brand of the main med has been helping. I wish I knew that 6 months ago! It’s so expensive but almost anything is worth it. Back pain has been a little less. Still a miserable life but so much to be thankful for.
Debating with myself about my wife wanting me to get a good camera like when I was a pro. My last two photo ’sessions’ with the cats were SO frustrating! And because of the camera and flash, not the cats for once.
Talk to myself later…


