In the Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Lent 5 in Year A, we come to the last of our for explorations of Jesus’ encounters with individuals that formed a catechumate in the early church in her ...

Jesus said to the people, “Take off the cloth and let him go.” There were many Jews who came to visit Mary. When they saw what Jesus did, many of them believed in him. But some of them went to the ...

Lazarus was his friend, someone he loved, and his death moves Jesus profoundly. Witnesses say, “See how he loved him.” The story makes clear that Lazarus is indeed dead.

The story of Lazarus in the Gospel of John 11 shows that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he has the power of life over death. Ministers Mark Roosinck and Mike Vestal say it also illustrates the ...

First, “Lazarus” is not the similarly named friend whom Jesus famously raised from the dead. ( See Vol. 52. Second, “The Rich Man and Lazarus” was the only parable where Jesus honored a ...

When Jesus gave the command to remove the stone from the tomb where Lazarus was buried, Martha told him her brother stunk because he had been dead for four days. Jesus replied, “Did I not say to you ...

Each one of us is ‘Lazarus’: the ‘friend’ of Jesus, ‘the one whom he loved.’ ... Remember who is calling you . Living as a “raised person” will feel strange at first.

I was browsing the book table at BJ’s the other day, looking for crossword puzzles for my upcoming plane trip, when I noticed another new title in the devotional series by author Sarah Young … ...

Art is there to do, in a sense, what Jesus did to Lazarus, and what Duccio and Franklin did to their art forms: to open up a door, to recoup the losses, with stories, song and images.