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🌹 S3 E54 — \"Mary, Mary, How Does Your Garden Grow?\" Based on Spurgeon's Evening Devotion, June 18 | Song of Solomon 5:1

Everyone 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.\" — Spurgeon


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