03/07/2026 Saturday
We visited Princeton Art Museum in the morning and then had lunch at Lan Ramen at 4 Hulfish St. instead of Nadia's originally planned lunch at a diner. She loved their noodle and beef. I ordered N0 The Ultimate Lanzhou Beef Noodle $17 which was not bad but a bit blend and Nadia had N1 Lanzhou Beef Noodle $16. We also ordered the Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken $15. I felt the familiarity of the restaurant, which looked and located like the one I ate with my parents during the bus tour years ago (the first and only time they visited me up until today).
The museum is a mix of both modern and classical arts. I have no interest in their modern collections. But there are a few Christian themed paintings and Monet. There's also a limited collections of Asian and ancient Mediterranean arts. Entrance is free. Crowd on such Saturday was about 50%. We parked on the street using Princeton's website park meter.
A few note of interest to learn from the collections to look up:
St. Margaret (of Antioch, Martyred, AKA Margaret the Virgin, 289-304AD): Margarites means pearl in Greek. Girls are named after this martyr.
St. Cecilia (Roman virgin martyr, 200-235AD), patron saint of music. Forced marriage with pagan nobleman named Valerian, converted him to be baptized by Pope Urban. Sang to God in her heart during her pagan wedding.
03/06/2026 Friday
Allie Beth Stuckey (I think from now on I'll abbreviate ABS) has a good episode on a strip club ministry by Rachelle Starr. Once a while, ABS does something remarkable. It's called Scarlet Hope. The ministry does sound legit from a gospel perspective from the interview. Not questionable money scheme like VOM (Voice of the Martyrs). Sharing new perspectives about a ministry that brings food to strip clubs and facing skepticisms because Christians were viewed as evil Bible thumpers picketing out on the streets by their work place (strip clubs). That they believed that the free meals may even be poisoned by these Christians.
03/05/2026 Thursday
Mark Zuckerberg's $170 million island mansion in Florida becomes netizens' attention. This reminds me of John 14:2-3. The translations of the verses are not really that clear (i.e. are we talking about mansion-like luxury in a city size house or something more abstract for current understanding?). But I would say it's better than these rich folks' mansions. But the afterlife certainly is not boring.
Attended JAUC (Japanese American United Church) Bible Study online for the first time. This schedule used to conflict with other Bible Studies (GCC's or Crossroads' small group.) I joined about 10 mins late around 7:10pm. I was distracted by this and that while on zoom with them, so my participation level was really low. Then I remembered to do AI note taking using Granola half an hour in since I joined. This is the only Japanese church that I know of in the area, I visited them at least once in Manhattan years ago when I was living in Flushing. Pastor Stanley Wayne was the teacher, on the topic of 1 Samuel 25. It's really a mix of English and Japanese. But I think everyone on this hybrid (about 9 people on Zoom, and in person) session are Japanese speakers, except for myself. I didn't speak nor was asked to, especially since I was late. English is likely tolerated. I think the pastor read one verse in English and then another alternated in Japanese. I saved the Granola notes to my work drive. I believe the pastor's using either NKJV or NASB for English and JCB (リビングバイブル Japanese Contemporary Bible - I couldn't this module for e-sword). I think I would try again if given opportunity and less distractions.
03/03/2026 Tuesday
This morning I woke up with a unique dream. It has to do with the demonic supernatural. I don't remember much now, but I supposed there was an encounter of the evil forces at someone's place, which I then encountered again privately on the street or something.
Khalil Sayegh, a Palestinian Christian, testified that Israeli terrorists are worst than Hamas, this is an interesting take, as I don't know enough:
03/02/2026 Monday
This is the challenge from the center (I wouldn't put Holy Post Media on the Left) using the nation's founding fathers' quotes regarding for ALL nations and ALL religions, against the Christian Nationalists of this country. This is always interesting to me because the Right would love to argue that "religions" just means different denominations of Christianity in America, and not other religions such as Buddhism and Islam:
03/01/2026 Sunday
Today, because of the beginning of the split into two services (duplicate) at Crossroads, Nadia and I were able to attending GCC's Sunday School by Pastor Chris. I kept having to explain to Nadia that it's not about "Tim loves Pastor Chris' Sunday Schools", but more about "I respect true servant of God." Because the content of the pastor/GCC may be too shallow for my taste, in fact, GCC gives me a vibe of hard Calvinism. Antinomianism is probably an unspoken reality as a result. After that, I gladly (Nadia may be feeling a bit uncomfortable) go to Crossroad with Nadia for the Sunday Service, as planned. I told her, that she must focus on worshipping God, not men. Since she couldn't stand Pastor Chris' sermons (injection of self-righteousness, shallow, confusing terminologies, etc.), Crossroads would be a reasonable solution.
Pastor Chris' Sunday School lesson of the day was on John Calvin, still on the Church History track. I saw Eleni's notes from last week which was on The Lord's Supper and Infant Baptism, which I agree with Pastor Chris as he gave us the lesson notes saying "you missed last week's which would be more interesting on the doctrines, and now we're back at the boring historical facts again." I agree last week would be quite interesting, but I disagree that today's any more boring. Teaching Church history, especially outside of the Seminary academics, really has a lot to do with who your audience is in order to engage interest in all aspects of the history. But it was fun enough, Nadia was actually listening this time, perhaps it's John Calvin. I then tried to talk to Eleni about infant baptism, she stressed she didn't want debate, even though I wasn't nor ever did debating her on this subject before, but we were interrupted by Matt who wants to talk to me about airlines to KL, now that's boring. Another example of how "Satan" could strategize the fall of a church - by preventing true fellowship in the Lord amongst church members. Anyway, Crossroads is doing healthier goals, we'll have that Christian Nationalism discussion soon in April for the men...but as Nadia would say, why just the men?...Indeed. Pros and cons everywhere, any church.