"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here." Dante's famous sign over the doorway to hell could have added, "American Express not accepted." No credit cards, no cash, no bitcoin. The covetous man in Jesus' story in Luke 16 had spent a lifetime accumulating ashes. He didn't have the price of one drop of water. For the Pharisees, the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus was a simple and powerful rebuke. All their values were upside-down.

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