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The Host: A Parable

Posted on September 18, 2020September 19, 2020 by Mike Mason

Over thirty years ago I published a book of parables called The Furniture of Heaven. Since then I’ve written a number of other parables, which some day I’ll gather into a second collection. Here’s one of the new ones.

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Christian Hedonism: Fresh Thoughts on Joy

Posted on September 4, 2020September 9, 2020 by Mike Mason

I am pleased to note that the Executive Director of Tourism in the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, is Jacki L’Heureux-Mason. Her name means “Happy Mason,” a moniker which I too am pleased to claim, ever since 2002 when I published my book on joy, Champagne for the Soul.

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And His Train Filled the Temple: A Parable Inspired by J.I. Packer

Posted on August 21, 2020September 7, 2020 by Mike Mason

This week I continue my memorial celebration of the life of J.I. Packer, who died last month at 93. As the son of a railway clerk, Jim retained a lifelong fascination for locomotives, saying that trains evoked his “longing for the transcendent.”

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Announcing the Brand New Audiobook Edition of The Mystery of Marriage!

Posted on July 31, 2020July 30, 2020 by Mike Mason

This week, on August 7, Karen and I celebrate 38 years of marriage. And this year we have something additional to toast, because at long last my book The Mystery of Marriage has been issued as an audiobook. Moreover the reader is one of the best in the business, Simon Vance, who does an excellent job.

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J.I. Packer’s Foreword to The Mystery of Marriage: “A Crackerjack!”

Posted on July 18, 2020July 18, 2020 by Mike Mason

Last week the world lost a great Christian theologian, writer, and teacher, and an even greater human being. Dr. J.I. Packer passed away on July 17 at the age of 93, just five days shy of his 94th birthday.

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C.S. Lewis in Heaven: A Visit to the Real Narnia (Part Two)

Posted on July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 by Mike Mason

In my last blog post, a friend who has visions of heaven told me he had met C.S. Lewis in the real Narnia, an actual region in the next world. Here is the continuation of his story …

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C.S. Lewis in Heaven: A Visit to the Real Narnia (Part One)

Posted on June 19, 2020June 24, 2020 by Mike Mason

An American fifth-grader once wrote to C.S. Lewis asking if it were possible to visit Narnia. Lewis replied that the only way, as far as he knew, was through death. But then he added a curious qualifier: “Perhaps some very good people get just a tiny glimpse before then.”

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The Image of God: Sovereignty and Racism

Posted on June 7, 2020August 17, 2021 by Mike Mason

This week, a guest editorial by Arthur Enns, a retired pastor and former healthcare administrator, who is writing a book on the sovereignty of God. Here is his reflection on the timely topic of “Sovereignty and Racism.”

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Old and Full of Years: Eating Sin for Breakfast

Posted on May 24, 2020June 7, 2020 by Mike Mason

The last two verses of the Book of Job tell us that after his ordeal, “Job lived 140 years. And so he died, old and full of years.”

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The Tree with Lights in it: Mystical Encounters with Trees

Posted on May 7, 2020May 16, 2020 by Mike Mason

Annie Dillard, in her radiant book Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, tells of a girl blind from birth who had an operation which restored her sight. When the bandages were removed and she was led into the garden, she saw what she described as “the tree with the lights in it.”

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