Why the Parable About Lazarus and the Rich Man Is Still Relevant User’s Guide to Sunday, Sept. 25 James Tissot (1836-1902), ‘The Bad Rich Man in Hell’ (photo: Public domain) ...

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 Lukes gospel.

The parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31 is unique and problematic. It is the only canonical parable referring to a character by a proper name and portraying a scene in the afterlife.

Once, Jesus told a parable about a rich man and Lazarus, the only person ever named in Jesus' parables. He told it to shake up his audience. Today, we're his audience.

In the parable, the rich man cared only about his wealth and nothing for a lame and sore-ridden man named Lazarus. After completing the reading of this parable, my mind turned to another rich man ...

I was watching a movie version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” with my wife recently when I had a strong feeling that I’d encountered this story before. No, I’m not talking about ...

The Archdiocese of Baltimore is like the biggest, most powerful man living in a village with many sons and daughters who loved him very much (“‘Leave churches open, close the archdiocese ...

He noted that the Parable of the Shrewd Manager comes just after the Parable of the Prodigal Son, who wasted his inheritance in wild living, and before the Story of the Rich Man and Lazarus, who ...