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Doug and Nicole Turpin say Charlotte Latin School expelled their two children in retaliation for questioning its radical ideological shift. Now, the North Carolina Supreme Court is reviving key parts of their lawsuit and giving the family another chance to hold the school accountable.

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Former country artist Granger Smith shares how devastating loss, biblical truth, and the grace of Jesus transformed his life from nominal faith to wholehearted surrender. Granger exposes the toxic beliefs that keep Christians stuck in self-help, cultural compromise, and comfortable religion instead of the living hope found in Christ. Listeners will be encouraged to go deeper in God’s Word, stand courageously for their faith, and share the hope of the Gospel with a hurting world.
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Every room you walk into, you leave a scent behind.

Not the perfume you're wearing — your presence. The thing that lingers after you've left. The spiritual fragrance that people associate with your name, your home, your workplace, your family. And Christine Caine wants to ask you directly: what does yours smell like?

In episode five of A Life Unleashed, Christine Caine opens 2 Corinthians 2:14–17 and unpacks one of the most sensory and surprising images Paul ever used for the Christian life: the Roman triumph parade, where priests carried incense through the streets of Rome so that every citizen could smell the victory before they ever saw it. Paul says that is exactly what we are: the aroma of Christ, diffused through us everywhere we go, to everyone we meet.

In this episode, Christine Caine shows that the gospel is not only good news to the ears — it is a good smell to the nose, and God Himself can smell it. She takes us through Scripture to show that smell has always mattered to God, from Noah's offering in Genesis to Mary's perfume filling the house in John 12 to Jesus Himself, the ultimate sweet-smelling sacrifice of Ephesians 5. She makes the case that whatever is in our hearts will inevitably diffuse out of our spiritual pores and that we cannot manufacture the fragrance of Christ through behavior alone. Just as perfume is made by the pressing and crushing of flowers, the sweet fragrance of Christ comes forth in us through the very seasons of brokenness and dying to self that we most want to avoid. And she names the hard truth: not everyone will love the scent. The same fragrance that smells like life to believers may smell like death to the lost, and the temptation to dilute the gospel to make it more palatable to the world will always be there. But if you change the chemical composition, it is no longer the same aroma. The takeaway that will stay with you: our spiritual influence on other people is directly proportional to the vitality of our own intimacy with Jesus.

✨ If you've ever asked questions like…

✅ How do I make my faith feel real and visible to the people around me, not just something I believe privately?

✅ Why does it seem like some Christians have a quality about them that draws people in, while others repel?

✅ What does it actually mean to be a witness and is it something I do or something I am?

✅ How do I keep sharing the gospel when the world seems more hostile to it than ever?

✅ What do I do when following Jesus starts costing me socially or professionally?

✅ How do I let God change what's in my heart, not just my behavior?

✅ Why does brokenness and hardship seem to produce the most spiritually compelling people?

…then this is your episode.

What you'll learn:

→ What Paul meant by the Roman triumph metaphor in 2 Corinthians 2 — and why understanding Christ as the victorious general leading a never-ending procession changes how you see yourself in the middle of every hard season.

→ Why the fragrance of Christ cannot be manufactured through behavior modification — and how the pressing and crushing of our own flesh, not our performance, is what releases the sweet aroma of Christ in and through our lives.

→ Why the same gospel fragrance smells like life to some and death to others — and why diluting the message to make it more palatable to the world means it is no longer the gospel at all, and what it looks like to carry the full potency of Christ's aroma without apology.

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