As the Gospel opens, we see the rich man (some call him Dives, which simply means “rich”): “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day.” It is ...

Like the parable of the Crooked Steward, this parable also tackles the problem of money and moral behavior. In this case, money makes one blind to human need. It’s addressed as a warning to the ...

Once, while he was traveling south from Galilee to Jerusalem for Passover, Jesus stopped and began to tell several parables. One of the parables Jesus tells on this occasion has felt particularly ...

Thank you for joining our study about The Rich Man and Lazarus. There is much to learn from this short parable that Jesus told His disciples, found only in Luke’s gospel. Before we review the passage, ...

“There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus covered in sores, who would gladly have eaten his ...

The last few weeks have been particularly heavy for American society in faith and in politics. Violence has stained our soil from the death and injury of children praying at mass in Minneapolis to the ...

Worship with symposium contributor Raymond Wise and the Calvin University Gospel Choir, led by Nate Glasper. Dennis Edwards will preach on Luke 16:19–31, “The Rich Man and Lazarus.” ...

This parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (or in older versions, Dives and Lazarus, ‘Dives’ being not a name but the Latin for a rich man) is another of Luke’s so-called ‘Parables of Crisis’, ‘crisis’, ...

The weekly show of concerned citizens speaking out against the authoritarian takeover of our democracy by our current administration is encouraging. Our peaceful protests at Eisenhower and Lincoln ...

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