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
Summer Growth: Light in the Lord
Our marriage relationships are to reflect God's love for us - in the husband's sacrificial love for his wife for her mental, emotional and spiritual flourishing and his wife's godly submission as wel…
Summer Growth - Carpe Diem…!
How are we to reach a world where voices in the media and social media criticizing Christianity have morphed from constructive conversation into emotive smearing?
Paul’s words in Ephesians chapter 5,…
Summer Growth: Carpe Diem
Paul urges the Ephesian believers to live lives that reflect their new life in Christ - having been darkness and now being light. As Christians they were a small minority in their society so Paul cla…
Summer Growth - Spiritual Amnesia…?
In Christians: The Urgent Case for Jesus in Our World (2021), Dr Greg Sheridan, Australian foreign affairs journalist and writer, comments: ‘In the West… religious belief has been in serious decline …
Summer Growth: Spiritual Amnesia
How can we live our lives in a culture which seems to have forgotten God, so that we reflect the Lord Jesus? Paul, in Ephesians chapter 4, explains how this is possible.
Summer Growth: Essential for Growth…
Commenting on how we understand Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), Rebecca McLaughlin writes: ‘we hear a call to care for strangers in need. But Jesus’s first audience heard more. …
Summer Growth: Essential for Growth
The Apostle Paul encourages the Ephesian Christians not only to be individually growing in Christ but also to be growing in unity; and he explains how God has made this possible through the different…
Summer Growth: Vital Community…
Sixty years ago the writer, M.E. Macdonald wrote: The real menace to life in the world today is not the hydrogen bomb… but the fact of proximity without community (M.E. Macdonald, The Need To Believe…
Summer Growth: Vital Community
Paul's encouragement to the Christian congregation in Ephesus to be reflecting the unity that we have in Christ - to have an active love for one another, being patient, humble and gentle in our relat…
Summer Growth: Beyond Imagination…
How can we weather the challenges of our changing and uncertain world?
Come with me to Ephesians chapter 3, verses 14 through 21 where we find one of the great prayers of the Bible. The curtain over …
Summer Growth: Beyond Imagination
Paul prays that the Ephesian believers will be changed from the inside out. And that they will see God's big picture which transcends earthly concerns.
Summer Growth: Created Equal…
The Fourth of July celebrations yesterday bring to mind the words of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”.
Interestingly, Yuval N…
Summer Growth: Created Equal
We are all created equal in God's eyes and through His Son He has made it possible for every person to know the riches of God's grace and benefit from all of God's blessings and promises.
Summer Growth: The Peace-Maker…
Alienation is a word often used to describe our human plight. Everywhere relationships are broken – between or within nations, in the workplace, between friends and within families. The phrase ‘the p…
Summer Growth: The Peace-Maker
God, through the sacrifice of Jesus, the Messiah, His Son, reconciles Jewish and Gentile believers with each other and with Himself.
Summer Growth: Mercy…
In an article, ‘Our politicians and media are letting us down’ in The Weekend Australian (June 17-18), Chris Kenny observes: ‘When we see the open deceit and toxicity of politics and the media in the…
Summer Growth: Mercy
Paul eloquently describes the rich mercy of God, who brings us to repentance and into his kingdom, even though we've been living as though we're our own God.
Summer Growth: Prayer…
AA Milne’s, Christopher Robin’s prayer, ‘Little Boy kneels at the foot of his bed…’ has touched the hearts of millions. The poem is a picture of childhood innocence, a mixture of God language and the…
Summer Growth - Prayer
Paul's prayer for the Ephesian believers shows us how to pray for one another and our families and friends. He also focuses on God's supremacy over all rulers in heaven and earth.
Prayer
Paul's prayer for the Ephesian believers is an example of how we can pray, as he focuses on God's supremacy over all rulers for all time and into eternity.