I'm reading The Truth War by John MacArthur.   I'm thinking of posting some of my thoughts on it as I read.  I'm in chapter 3 right now but I will backtrack a bit when I do the first post on it.   Right now I'm battling a bad cold and just want to go back to bed!

I'm not likely to have deep thoughts so I will likely just put up a few quotes and perhaps make a comment or two when I really get going on it.

For those who don't know of this book, it discusses the need to "earnestly contend for the faith" (and uses the whole book of Jude) in the context of the  "emergent conversation."

A couple of observations here that I was able to think of on my own (at least one of which Dr MacA also has and certainly articulates a lot better!) is that all this postmodern and emergent stuff don't seem to be very new.  Postmodernism is said to have really started in 1987 (is that the year?  It's when the Berlin wall came down, which event people now say symbolized the end of Modernity) and I have read that it ended in the late 90's (what's replacing it now?).   But the idea of "there are different truths and your truth may not be my truth" and the dislike of applying logic or even basic thinking has definitely been around a long time!  I don't remember all the 60's but I do some of it and that kind of (non-) thinking was definitely around then.   And the emergent stuff - much of what I am reading about now seems to have been around in various places and in various modes, from ages ago!  It seems to be nothing more at its heart than what the serpent asked Eve,  "did God really say?"  

Off to get some soup in a cup and hide in my bed.  Schoolwork for the younger kids is going to be pretty basic today - but we have gotten some things done!