Author: Al Wright

My last post was about ditches. Not really. I just used a scene from my childhood as a way of talking about how we deal with issues as believers when there is a clear tension between options, and the Bible does not resolve it either way. The Bible lets them both stand. My grandfather used…

I grew up in an area with lots of dirt roads. There were not lines on these dirt roads, not in the middle or on the sides. The boundary markers for those roads were the ditches. The roads seemed always to slope toward the ditches, particularly on a dark and rainy night. Sounds like the…

Thomas Schreiner in his magnificent commentary on Romans argues that Paul speaks of the righteousness of God that comes to us in and through Jesus Christ in a very foundational way in chapters 1-4; he then speaks of this righteousness of God in a very functional way in chapters 5-8. Schreiner may cringe at my…

I will have the privilege to gather this week for the first time this year with a group of men who are committed to growing in the grace and knowledge of God, learning what it means as saved sinners to live under the Lordship of Jesus. We will among other things we do together examine…

Paul writes, “finally, be strong in the Lord and the strength of His might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the SCHEMES of the devil,” Ephesians 6:11. The word that the ESV translates “schemes” is the Greek word that sounds out as “methodeeaws.” You would think…

We had boarded our church bus to make the trip to Atlanta. We would board a plane iin Atlanta to fly nine plus hours to Amsterdam. We would wait in that most beautiful airport (my favorite among international transitional terminals) for what seemed like forever. We would then board another plane for another nine hour…

Welcome to a Wright View! Make sure you spell “wright,” right. What I will be posting here in this place is my view. My prayer is that it will be far more than just my view though. My opinion on anything is worthless. What matters only and eternally is what God says. And God is…