If your house smells good, people perceive you as a good person. If there is a bad smell, people may perceive you another way.

People are also using scents as aromatherapy to feel better and to induce change in our mood and thought pattern. We have learned to use scents in a functional way as well. We know that the scent of lavender in the bedroom will induce sleep.

Smell or fragrances have traditionally been a woman's domain, but men are now using colognes, candles and room sprays. The trend for room scents is definitely spreading, where in the past, it wasn't.

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.

If we're going to impact our world in the name of Jesus, it will be because people like you and me took action in the power of the Spirit. Ever since the mission and ministry of Jesus, God has never stopped calling for a movement of "Little Jesuses" to follow him into the world and unleash the remarkable redemptive genius that lies in the very message we carry. Given the situation of the Church in the West, much will now depend on whether we are willing to break out of a stifling herd instinct and find God again in the context of the advancing kingdom of God.

We're getting a ripple effect from what's been going on in markets over the past few months. People now are waking up to the fact that while they may have had a great return in the bull market, it may be ebbing. People are getting more careful, funds are moving elsewhere and we're a small beneficiary of that.