For my personal devotions for the next while (dunno how long) I'm going to go analog. That's right, I'll be using mostly books. You know, the paper codex thingies. Don't worry, I'll still use the LDLS and all sorts of cool resources for my Pastorals Study, but I'm looking to head a different way with my personal devotional time.

I'm planning on using at least three books:

• Culy's I, II, III John: A Handbook on the Greek Text
• Goodrich/Lukaszewski's A Reader's Greek New Testament
• Gingrich's Shorter Lexicon.

I'll also probably dig into Young's Intermediate Greek Grammar if I have cause to look something up that Culy doesn't address or treats ambiguously. I'm sure you're thinking I should use Wallace, and you may be right — but I don't have access to that in print.

I find that in my quest to improve my Koine Greek skills, I need to go through the Greek text a bit more slowly, really thinking about each word as I come across it. Since I have the Culy book, and since 1 John seems to be the standard fare for second year Greek classes based on reading, and since I never had a second year of Greek, this seems to be a good way to work through the text.

This morning went well, but then again the first morning always goes well now, doesn't it?