Thanks to Matt for his impeccable job filling in as guest blogger today; having him cover on
The Voice means that I was able to move the last of my things to a new apartment without also having to worry about trying to write and research a blog post. While things have been quite dead on here for the past week (and not just because one of the "bloggers" here passed away back in 1714), moving is done, and I can now resume my (mostly) daily blogging duties on this site. Right now, I'm drafting up some big projects and trying to finish up the 13-part review of Mark Driscoll's book
Doctrine. I can't say what all of the upcoming projects will be, but for one of them, let's just say that I've got a JVC camcorder and unlimited access to a group of published Biblical scholars.
-Sean Rice
Matthew Henry on the Beatitudes
Often, I wish that I could leave my hometown for awhile and stay in seclusion like the early Christian monks did. I would love to have that kind of community; I would love to have that focus and dedication to prayer; I look around, and I wonder why we do all of this stuff, this constant working and consuming and striving vainly after the wind. What for? We spend a lot of time focusing on taking care of decaying bodies, deteriorating houses, riches that fade, and temporal relationships. We spend less time away from it all, training our minds on more eternal things. In the midst of thinking about all this, I wonder: what does it mean that John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness?
