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12\/27\/2025 Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A popular fail for Frank Turek<\/strong> as his famous cheesy lines were \"If I give you a book would you read it?\" and \"If Christianity were true, would you believe it.<\/a>\" The first isn't that great, as if giving free books is the same as giving money. The latter is worse, and this is where presuppositional apologetics wins. And this is my comment<\/a>: Unfortunately, this is a fail for Turek: Christianity is for sinners, not for judges. Great evangelist, bad apologetics.<\/em> Later I saw David Tong's post<\/a> on his Facebook:
Consistent Reformed Apologetics:<\/strong>
apologetics \u2260 pre-evangelization<\/strong>
apologetics = evangelization<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not sure if his posting was pertaining to my post\/comment, in concurrence. If so, my first impression was positive, but he could very well disagree with my statement, such that calling Frank Turek a \"great\" evangelist and with \"bad\" apologetics is oxymoronic, then it is non-sequitur and I can ignore it, because an evangelist's greatness begins in his love to reach young minds with the Gospel<\/strong>, not how his apologetics is in the beginning which can grow better over time with the love he has for God. Frank Turek has that, and he has stolen quite a few reformed doctrine to make his case against non-believers, he just can't be consistent against Reformed believers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12\/26\/2025 Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early morning after Christmas, around 8am, Nadia and I drove to Flushing for brake (not break pads) pads and rotors<\/strong> replacement at her favorite mechanics: Y & C Auto Repair<\/a>. The price has always been a drastic difference with what we find in NJ. Imagine this: Topline Autocare (5 mins drive from our house) charges $1178<\/strong> front and brake pads and rotors (including servicing the rotor); While Y & C charges $800<\/strong> for the same (a 32% discount). Mileage of our 2012 Honda CRV at the time was around 136,770 miles. Google AI: For a 2012 Honda CR-V, brake pads <\/strong>typically last 30,000<\/strong>-70,000 miles, while rotors <\/strong>usually need replacement every 50,000<\/strong>-80,000 miles<\/em>. That means the next pads & rotors replacement due date is around 180k miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We then ate at our old time favorite Ah Hong. I had curry mee, Nadia had Pho<\/em>. Then we take out another old time favorite, New World Mall (underground food court under JMart grocery). She ordered pork intestine noodle soup while I got \u8706\u8089\u9ebb\u8fa3\u71d9<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My dad sent me this fun science experiments<\/strong> video, looks legit, I should try:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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