Mike Mason Books

Chapter One Not many people are killed by lightning. Zac’s mother was. Zachary Sparks, though small for ten years old, had a look of perpetual astonishment that made him seem larger than life. His eyes were nearly the biggest part of him, round and wide, and his eyebrows had a natural arch as if held [...]

A marriage, or a marriage partner, may be compared to a great tree growing right up through the center of one’s living room. It is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going––to the fridge, to bed, to the bathroom, or out the front door––the tree has to be taken into account.

Listen to this Interview with Mike Mason about his book Practicing the Presence of People. Click to hear interview

Excerpt from Adventures in Heaven Once I’d met my Heavenly Father on His throne and fulfilled some assignments, He asked if I’d like to come back and spend an entire day in the throne room.  At the time I happened to be swamped in guilt and self-pity, and it astounded me that God would issue [...]

Excerpt from Champagne for the Soul A few years ago I began a ninety-day experiment in joy. I made up my mind that for the next ninety days I would be joyful in the Lord. Because this was an experiment, it allowed room for failure. If at times I wasn’t joyful, I wouldn’t despair or [...]

Excerpt from The Gospel According to Job Once I met a man who, like Abraham, had moved his entire household halfway around the world on the strength of a vision from God.  When I asked him to tell me the story, he answered that there were three versions of that story, and which one did [...]

Excerpt from Practicing the Presence of People Why does it seem so hard to love?  Why does the real thing so often elude us?  Why don’t we just claim this treasure and enjoy it? One reason is that we do not really believe love is permitted.  A little taste of love here and there––yes, that’s [...]

Excerpt from The Mystery of Children One day in our church all the parents were encouraged to stand before their children and take their hands.  As we looked into our children’s eyes, the pastor read Jesus’ words in Matthew 18:3: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will [...]

Excerpt from The Furniture of Heaven With Christopher Rainbow and me, right from the start it was one of those stormy romances: on again, off again, on again, off again. So when the news first came out about this new technique for merging two people into one, we simply made up our minds one night, [...]

Mike Mason thinks different. Different than me, anyhow.  To clarify the degree of difference, I once asked him what would be his favourite way to spend an hour.  “To sit and contemplate a tree.”  I don’t remember what my response would have been to that question at that time, but if it involved trees, it [...]

Interview with Mike about Champagne for the Soul (The interviewer is Rosanne Farnden Lyster of InCourage magazine.) “Happiness has not been my strong suit, which is why I needed to experiment with joy.” So writes Mike Mason in the introduction to his book Champagne for the Soul. In October of 1999 Mason began an unusual [...]

Author’s Note: As the husband of a doctor, I hear a lot of stories, both happy and sad. Here’s one that is both. Though I’ve changed names and shaped the story into fiction, it’s essentially true. Lying on her back and staring at the white ceiling, Mary felt the scanner sliding around in the warm [...]

A Short Story Ed Harper strolled down the street thinking how pleasant it was to be a five-point Calvinist. Not that he didn’t get along with the four-pointers; in fact some of his best friends were four-pointers.  But that fifth point, Limited Atonement––the idea that Jesus died not for the whole world but only for [...]

Excerpt of a story from The Mystery of the Word (no longer in print, but still available from online bookstores) It was a sunny day with a light breeze and the world could not have been more beautiful. I was picking wild flowers in the woods beside the airstrip in Chizela, a mission station in [...]