{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5d66e31bd648b96e4ce9a7f1/686d4fb6e52066772f2c81fe?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Back to the Garden: Spurgeon, Soul Care, and the Cry for Eden","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5d66e31bd648b96e4ce9a7f1/1751993528122-6e448389-4c52-4e26-a64f-d263a26c3dbb.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p><strong>Reclaiming the Inner Life as Christ’s Sacred Retreat</strong></p><p>What if your soul is more than a battlefield—or a burden to manage—but a <strong>garden</strong>?</p><p>In this episode, we step into the rich metaphor drawn from Charles Spurgeon’s 19th-century devotion on <em>Song of Solomon 5:1</em>, where Christ says, “I am come into my garden.” With help from Gordon MacDonald’s <em>Ordering Your Private World</em>, and a haunting lyric from Crosby, Stills, Nash &amp; Young, we explore what it means to <strong>reclaim the soul as sacred space</strong>.</p><p>You’ll be invited to:</p><ul><li>Reimagine your inner life as a <strong>walled garden</strong>—set apart, protected, and tended by grace</li><li>Hear Spurgeon’s challenge to resist worldly encroachment</li><li>Reflect on MacDonald’s insight: that an untended soul will always be overrun by the world</li><li>Long for the Eden your soul remembers—and the Christ who still walks among the lilies</li></ul><p>This isn’t about performance—it’s about <strong>presence</strong>.</p><p> Not religious activity—but <strong>relational intimacy</strong> with the One who purchased your soul as His own retreat.</p><p>📖 “Would that we could see the wall of separation between the church and the world made broader and stronger.” – Spurgeon</p><p> 🎵 “We’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” – CSNY</p><h3>🙏 Takeaway:</h3><p>Your soul is not public property.</p><p> It is Christ’s garden.</p><p> And the Gardener is waiting.</p><p>🔗 Listen at <a href=\"http://podcast.gwot.rocks/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>gwot.rocks home page</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;</p><p> 📤 Share this episode with someone who needs restoration</p><p> 🌿 Take a walk. Turn off the noise. Return to the garden.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.transformthiscity.org/donate\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DONATE</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;You can help support this podcast by clicking</strong>&nbsp;<strong>our secure PayPal account. 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)</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><a href=\"https://www.gotquestions.org/four-spiritual-laws.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Four Spiritual Laws</a> - how you can be born again and have eternal life?</p><p><a href=\"https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/spiritual-growth/the-spirit-filled-life.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Spirit Filled Life</a>- how you can live each day in the power of God’d Holy Spirit!</p><p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQIWZVVGAvarNQiwpQonu0w\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\"Other Things with... \"</a> YouTube Channel</p><p>(Ctrl+click to follow the link)&nbsp;<em>&nbsp;</em></p><p><a href=\"https://www.transformthiscity.org/lifehelps\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>LIFE HELPS</em></strong></a></p><p><a href=\"https://www.transformthiscity.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Transform This City</strong></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;</p><p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/transformthiscity\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Transform This City Facebook</strong>&nbsp;</a></p><p><a href=\"mailto:gwot.rocks@transformthiscity.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>gwot.rocks@transformthiscity.org</strong></a>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Thank you for listening! Please tell your friends about us! Listen, share, rate, subscribe!</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Christian Standard</p><p>Bible®, Copyright © 2016 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian</p><p>Standard Bible® and CSB® is a federally registered trademark of Holman Bible Publishers.</p>","author_name":"Kenny Price"}