Yuri Cameron

Great as per usual.  ShepCon is always encouraging. This is my third time going, so the novelty is completely gone, which isn’t a bad thing. I had a bit of sour throat and coughed sometimes so I decided to stay in the overflow room, which again isn’t really a problem once you gone to the conference a few times already.  Because I was under the weather, my brain wasn’t fully there the entire time. I did make some connections, but unfortunately was tired most of the time. I enjoyed Paul Twiss’s sermon on the ascension of Christ. I also enjoyed the breakout session on God and Government. I purchased quite a few books. Books by Vos, some Beale, and various others. I was exited that Typology by Hamilton was there but I believe it was available on the last day of the conference, as was The Old Testament use of the Old Testament.  The biggest thing I now enjoy about the conference is the Christian fellowship. I aspire to be an elder, and am currently a youth leader. I just love ...

So bear with me. Be a bear with me. I haven’t actually read any book by Van Til to completion, but am currently working through Greg Bahnsen’s analysis of Van Til, in which much of the book is direct excerpts from Van Til.  A warning. Reading Van Til as someone interested in pressup is quite a challenge. There is philosophical prep work needed to be done before you engage with Van Til. One may ask then why engage with him. Greg Bahnsen seems to do a fine job with his various books. James White and Jason lisle write more simply. Van Til is considered to be the father of pressupositional apologetics or as he states it better “reformed apologetics”. The ideas of John Calvin may be presented more understandably in a work of MacArthur’s or Joel Beeke, but why wouldn’t you want to go back to the original. It is quite the same with Cornelius Van Til. But it takes some preparation to start understanding his ideas. I read Always Ready by Bahnsen (observe my review) and found it to be a good...