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 – God’s Plan…
With the anticipated arrival of summer in the northern hemisphere, the Word on Wednesday will offer a series of reflections on the Letter to the Ephesians entitled, ‘Summer Growth’. The substance of …
Summer Growth - God's Plan
God's grace has been lavished on us. What does this look like?
Living Forever…?
‘Do you want to live forever?’ was the catchy question leading into an article, ‘From Here to Eternity’ in The Weekend Australian magazine, (May 27-28, 2023). ‘Coming back from the dead, then living …
Living Forever
Do Cryonics really offer us eternal life/ And if so, what kind of life would it be. Is there a better option?
Gospel-Led Regeneration…
Over the last twenty years or so God’s people have been increasingly put on the defensive about their faith. In a climate where people of faith are dismissed as intellectually inept and even as ‘terr…
Gospel-Led Regeneration
On the day of his resurrection, Jesus appears to his disciples and breathes out the Holy Spirit, assuring them that they will not be alone.
Prayer...!
Why don’t we pray more often than we do? And how often when we do pray, do we look to the model prayers we find in the Bible – and not least from the lips of Jesus?
Dr. JI Packer once commented, ‘I b…
Prayer
The challenge to ask ourselves if we pray as Jesus did, that God will be glorified through our own lives as his children.
Bereft…?
The loss of someone deeply loved awakens a profound anguish and grief within us. Even some time after a loved one has gone from us, we can unexpectedly find ourselves tearing up.
In the course of his…
Bereft?
Jesus promises his disciples that although he is leaving them, they will not be bereft. He will send the Holy Spirit to be their Comforter and Guide.
Doubts and Questions…
Glen Scrivener’s recent book, The Air We Breathe (2022) compellingly explores the way that Christianity has shaped the moral values of the West. It is a book for those who believe and those who don’t…
Doubts and Questions
Doubt is not the opposite of Faith, as we see in this section of John's gospel - chapter 14 and verses 1-14. Jesus doesn't dismiss questions from Thomas and Philip, but responds with words which are …
The Good Shepherd…
Elections and the resulting political discourse remind us how much most people long for a leader who will bring us justice and peace, protection and prosperity. However, on every occasion our aspirat…
The Good Shepherd
Jesus is the Door and the Guard/Protector of each one of his people - his sheep.
He is Risen Indeed. Hallelujah!
In his book God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? Dr. John Lennox, emeritus Professor of Mathematics Oxford University, writes, ‘To the majority of those who have reflected deeply and written abo…
He is Risen Indeed. Hallelujah!
Jesus' resurrection is the foundation for our belief as Christians.
Christ is Risen…!
In his book God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? Dr. John Lennox, emeritus Professor of Mathematics Oxford University, writes, ‘To the majority of those who have reflected deeply and written abo…
Christ is Risen
Jesus fulfills prophecy and his own words to his disciples. On the third day after his brutal death, his tomb is empty. Listen to the conversation of two people on the road to Emmaus.
The Cross…!
Easter Day that we celebrate this Sunday is a gala day as we remember Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. His resurrection underscores the validity of the Christian faith. Without it, we are lost.
Tha…
The Cross
Why is the cross, the tool of Roman torture and brutality, the symbol of Christianity?