What would it take to change a hardened heart? With Christmas lights still glowing, we hold Dickens’ A Christmas Carol up to the light of Luke 16 and watch how both stories expose the fault lines in our comfort. Scrooge faces ghosts who force him to see time and consequence; Jesus tells of a rich man who steps over Lazarus and discovers a chasm that cannot be crossed.

Ever notice how easy it is to feel “right” as long as you’re standing next to someone you’ve labeled “worse”? Let's take a spirited, heartfelt walk through the parable in Luke of the Pharisee and the tax collector and uncover why comparison is such a powerful counterfeit for spiritual health. With humor and straight talk, we unpack how Jesus flips our categories, reading the heart rather than the résumé, and why the least likely person in the story walks away justified.

Stones drop. Silence settles. Then a sentence changes everything. We walk through the charged scene in John 7–8 where a woman is dragged into public shame and Jesus turns a legal trap into a doorway to freedom. Without flinching at the reality of sin, he shields her from harm, exposes hypocrisy, and points to a path that leads to life: neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.

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