Mary, Mary — How Does Your Garden Grow? (54)

🌹 S3 E54 — "Mary, Mary, How Does Your Garden Grow?" Based on Spurgeon's Evening Devotion, June 18 | Song of Solomon 5:1Everyone knows the nursery rhyme. Almost nobody knows it's a taunt aimed at Bloody Mary — and that same question ("how's that working out for you?") is exactly what Spurgeon's garden imagery asks the modern church.🏡 What's inside:• 👑 The dark history behind "Mary, Mary, quite contrary" — and why it's not really about a garden at all• 🌿 Spurgeon's 4-part anatomy of the believer's heart as Christ's garden: separation, beauty, growth, and retirement• 🧱 A hard look at the torn-down "hedge" of the modern church — relevance culture vs. the walled garden• ⚖️ John Bunyan's Mr. Badman on the difference between can and should — is maximizing what the market will bear ever a form of theft?• ☀️ The Jubilee pivot: why the "garden" isn't just a heaven-someday promise, but a today reality — Luke 4 and the year of the Lord's favor• 🙏 A closing invitation for both the person far from Christ and the believer who's lost the quiet place at his feet💬 The question at the center: How does your garden grow? Walled and thriving — or wilderness creeping back in?🎧 Runtime: ~9–10 minutes🌱 "The Lord grant the sweet showers of his grace to water his garden this day." — SpurgeonSubscribe to Jesus Company podcast now! 📲❤️Here are some helpful linksJesus Company on Apple PodcastsJesus Company on SpotifyJesus Comany on Amazon MusicJesus Company on DeezeriHeart Jesus Company Podcast🔗 transformthiscity.org📱 @JesusCoOfficial on X | Search "Jesus Company" on your podcast app📱 Connect with Us:💻 Website: Jesus Company is the home base for the podcast, and there are some additional links to podcast players that host the show!💻 Website: gwot.rocks home page 📺 YouTube: "Other Things with... " ❤️ Support the mission: DONATE . For donation by check, make payable to Transform This City, P.O. Box 1013, Spring Hill, Tennessee, 37174. “gwot.rocks” is a ministry of Transform This City, a registered 501(C)(3) Transform This City  Transform This City Facebook  [email protected]🔗 ResourcesCharles Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening (Public Domain Source)The Four Spiritual Laws- how you can be born again and have eternal life?The Spirit Filled Life- how you can live each day in the power of God’d Holy SpiritUnless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2016 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® is a federally registered trademark of Holman Bible Publishers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.