Word on Wednesday with John Mason
The weekly podcast is a Mid-week Bible Reflection that includes Prayers drawn from an Anglican Prayer Book, Bible Readings (typically from the New Revised Standard Version), and a Bible Reflection given by an ordained minister of the Church. Each podcast session is introduced and closed with Music (and may occasionally include a song).
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 311
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
What if God Was One of Us?
Back in 1995 Joan Osborne’s ‘What If God Was One of Us?’ was an instant hit. It was asking the question how we would react if God was identifiably walking amongst us as just one of us. It’s a good qu…
Out of the Silence…
This week a friend sent me a copy of That Was The Church That Was – How the Church of England Lost the English People. Written by Andrew B…
The Leader We Can Trust!
Catastrophic events such as we have seen over this last year, give us pause and challenge us to see life with new eyes. While Covid has dominated the news, volcanoes and earthquakes, wild-fires and d…
Meaning and Hope
In this transition from one year to the next, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, one of the wisdom books of the Bible.
The wisdom books stand apart from the main narrative of the Bible, asking questions …
The New Year – About Time…
Another uncertain and troublesome year with yet another Covid variation! Given that so much has become politicized, where can we find a certain hope for the future? The question of the future in a tr…
Another Year – Where is Our Hope…?
Another uncertain and troublesome year with yet another Covid variation! Given that so much has become politicized, where can we find a certain hope for the future? The question of the future in a tr…
Why Shepherds…?
Does Christmas hold out something special for you? A time to be with family, Covid permitting? A joyful celebration? Or is it nothing but fake news and a season of stress? Let me touch on two scenes …
The Transcendental Interferer?
We all like to think that there are areas in our life where we are in control.
CS Lewis in Surprised by Joy wrote this of his pre-Christian phase: “… But, of course, what mattered most of all was my …
Prepare ye the way of the Lord…
“Prepare ye the way of the Lord …” are the opening words of the Broadway musical Godspell, that was released in 1971. The lyrics pick up the theme of John the Baptist’s preaching some two millennia a…
The Return of the King…
From New Testament times anyone who has said that Jesus Christ will return one day has been considered crazy. Certainly, the idea of him bursting through the skies in a blazing display of power and g…
Thanksgiving…
King Lear, one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, tells the story of a king who voluntarily set aside his titles and property in favor of two of his three daughters, only to find himself reduced to…
From Despair to Hope...
Last week we reflected on the reality of the depression many experience – and not least in these surreal times of the Covid pandemic. Psalms 42 and 43 testify to this very real experience. The psalms…