What Do You Smell Like to God
The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast)
Ascension
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Have you ever thought about what your life smells like to God? Jeff Cavins explores the surprising ways Scripture uses scent to describe our spiritual lives—from the fragrance of prayer and repentance to the aroma of love and sacrifice. Drawing from both the Old and the New Testament, Jeff unpacks how the way we live can become a pleasing offering to the Lord.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts, |
| 0:05.6 | videos, and resources, to help you live your faith every day, visit ascensionpress.com. |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to the Jeff Kaven Show, where we talk about the Bible, discipleship, and evangelization, |
| 0:18.5 | putting it all together in living as activated disciples. |
| 0:23.7 | This is show 454. What do you smell like to God? |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome to the show. Whoa, maybe that title caught your attention. What do you smell like to God? |
| 0:42.6 | Bible has an awful lot to say about it, actually. So we're going to look into that today to find out how do we smell? |
| 0:48.8 | What do we like spiritually, right? And what does the Lord like? And what impact do we have on others just by what we do and what we say and the way we live our life? |
| 1:00.8 | I do hope you're having a great week. I really do. And so much happening this fall, if you're listening to this out of sequence, this is the fall of 2025. |
| 1:10.5 | And so much going on in the world. Remember to |
| 1:12.6 | pray for Pope Leo, our |
| 1:14.6 | wonderful Pope and pray for |
| 1:16.6 | his intentions and his safety |
| 1:18.9 | and that God would give him the |
| 1:20.8 | continued wisdom. Hope someday to be able to meet him. I think he's an |
| 1:24.7 | incredible guy and we're just so blessed |
| 1:26.9 | to have such good leadership, aren't we? And pray for your local parish. Pray for your priest and your local bishops. All right. So if you do want the show notes today, which let me look at this for a second here. Oh yeah, you will. Yeah, I've got a lot of notes here. So if you want the show notes, if you're already signed up, you're going to get them. But if you do not get the notes, all you got to do is text |
| 1:48.2 | my notes. I've got a lot of notes here. So if you want the show notes, if you're already signed up, you're going to get them. |
| 1:45.0 | But if you do not get the notes, all you got to do is text my name, Jeff Kavens. |
| 1:50.0 | One word, Jeff Kavins, and you can text it to the number 33777. |
| 1:56.2 | 3377. |
| 1:58.9 | Speaking of the way things smell, I am back out in the woods this week. Man, the leaves are |
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