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
Wisdom to Live By
If we are to understand the trauma and trials of life, we need more than human wisdom and understanding. When the Bible speaks of wisdom it speaks of the complex matrix of intelligence, knowledge and…
Just a Dream ...?
Martin Luther's 1963 "I have a dream ..." speech in Washington DC fired the hearts of American people across the racial divide to a new vision and energy to promote harmony and peace. Yet within fiv…
Epiphany
Writing in the Weekend Australian January 4-5 2025,Greg Craven, former Vice-Chancellor of The Catholic University in Sydney, observed that Christmas has not merely "become commercial ... but that it …
Happy New Year - 2025
T.S. Eliot prophetically observed in his Choruses from the Rock in 1934: " ... Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, bur for no God: and this has never happened before. ..." What is the mos…
Christmas Eve - December 24, 2024
Does Christmas hold out something special for you? Or is it nothing but fake news and a season of stress? This podcast reflects on two scenes from Luke chapter 2, which places Jesus's birth in its hi…
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 of his pre-Christian phase: “… But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-…
Prepare Ye The Way of The Lord
"Prepare ye the way of the Lord" are the opening words of the musical Godspell that opened in 1971.The lyrics pick up the theme of John the Baptist's preaching 2 millennia ago as he prepared people f…
Facing The Future - Advent
Lord Acton observed in 1887, that leaders are inclined to use their powers corruptly. this is especially true of despotic rulers who are not held accountable. Significantly, Isaiah the prophet spoke …
Thanksgiving ... Rejoice in the Lord
Thanksgiving is a theme that permeates the Bible - especially the Psalms. And while we do live in an uncertain world, there is still much for which to be thankful. Paul the Apostle encouraged the Phi…
Feed My Sheep
Jesus's physical resurrection from the dead is fundamental to the Christian faith.Without it, as Paul the Apostle says in First Corinthians chapter 15, our faith is meaningless.
The Impossible Has Happened
The 1995 Joan Osborne hit What If God Was One of Us? asked the seemingly impossible question about seeing God face to face in human form. It challenges our worldview and our view of God. This podcast…
A Life of Regret
John the Gospel writer tells us of a woman at a well in Samaria two thousand years ago, who was longing for happiness. It had eluded her, until she had an unexpected conversation at the village well.
The Jesus Story - Sign #6 The Blind See
In March 1973, Pink Floyd introduced the line, 'The dark side of the moon'. The album enjoyed great success, addressing dark questions about life. In the sixth of the seven signs, Jesus encounters a …
The Jesus Story - The Ultimate Sign: Resurrection
'Do you want to live forever?' was the question leading into an article, 'From Here to Eternity' in the Weekend Australian Magazine (May 27-28 2023). The article took up personal stories of a small n…
The Jesus Story - Sign #2: A Healing from Afar
Christian faith is regularly considered to be 'a leap in the dark'. But daily we take countless steps of faith - faith that the food we eat and the water we drink won't harm us; the traffic will stop…
The Jesus Story - Sign #7: A Dead Man Raised
Death is the ultimate certainty we all face. It's why literature, film and philosophy so often dwell on the themes of our mortality. But it's rare that anyone claims they can do anything about it.
The Jesus Story - Sign #5: Walking On Water
Jean Paul Sartre, the French existentialist anticipated the sense of aloneness people experience today. Jesus makes it clear that life is about more than bread for the body. Satisfying life calls for…
The Jesus Story - Sign #4: Food for Five Thousand
John continues his account of Jesus with a fourth sign - the miraculous provision of food for five thousand people.
The Jesus Story - Sign #3: A Paralytic Healed
Do we think that Jesus was the greatest teacher in history? Do we agree with the author HG Wells that 'Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history'? Or is there more to this? John …
The Jesus Story - Sign #1: Water Into Wine
God has built into the universe, laws, the regularities we observe. However, these laws don't prevent him from intervening, if he chooses to create an irregularity which we call a miracle. Jesus perf…