Category Archives: Uncategorized

Don’t need money, don’t take fame Don’t need no credit card to ride this train It’s strong and it’s sudden and it’s cruel sometimes But it might just save your life That’s the power of love That’s the power of love Huey Lewis, 1985  I know I’m showing my age but who doesn’t like theContinue reading “The Power of Love”

Last week, Pastor Munther Isaac & his wife Rudaina kindly invited us to have lunch with them after service at Christmas Lutheran Church, Bethlehem. Their boys Karam (7) & Zaid (5) remind us SO much of our grandsons Theo (5) & Sean Michael (3), playing together, getting into mischief together, etc. At home, one ofContinue reading “A Visit with Pastor Munther’s Family, including Two of God’s Smaller “Living Stones””

Michael asked me in 2017, “Would you consider us applying to be volunteers together at Ecce Homo?” I admit that my motives for saying yes weren’t entirely noble. True, I wanted to make Mike happy, it would be an adventure to serve as “ambassadors for Christ” together, and we’d be able to partner with ourContinue reading “Hit the Ground Running”

People from around the world come to Ecce Homo (“Behold the Man”) guest house (eccehomopilgrimhouse.com), to see the ancient Lithostrotos (Greek for pavement) in the basement. There is also, carved on flagstone, a game soldiers would have played with dice, maybe similar to when soldiers threw dice for Jesus’ robe. This area may be whereContinue reading “Pilgrim vs. Pilate”