Chris Wright

Husband. Daddy. Christ Follower.

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

USA!! #USMNT #FIFAWorldCup

[Andrew Hébert @drandrewhebert]

A pet peeve re: the SBC annual meeting is when the question is called before a motion has had the chance to be debated adequately. It’s a shrewd tactic but it’s poor form & doesn’t serve the messengers well. You don’t need to strong-arm a strong motion. #sbc26

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

@GuideStone Great work @JWardaddy

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

@JoshuaWPowell @mattkendrick100 We were glad to have you today & it was great meeting you.

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

Woo Pig Sooie!!

[Arkansas Baseball @RazorbackBSB]

YOU CAN'T SCRIPT IT ANY BETTER

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

Greatness

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

When you pray for a hedge of protection

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

Powerful testimony here.

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

It’s hard to believe I’m officially Dr. Wright.

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

I’m scrolling here to see commentary from @deaninserra on these Patriots jerseys & helmets combo tonight. I’m a fan.

[Ouachita Athletics @OuachitaTigers]

We want you guys here, @CollegeGameDay! 🤝

Let's make this thing happen and show the country the closest rivalry in all of college sports.

[Ouachita Athletics @OuachitaTigers]

Let’s make it happen!
@ReceDavis @CollegeGameDay

[David Salley @dsalley24]

Our guy @ReceDavis is all over it! 👏

@CollegeGameDay has never been to an @NCAADII game — The Battle of the Ravine is the one to come to. Both sides of the street in Arkadelphia will roll out the red carpet.

It truly deserves the spotlight only your crew can give it.

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

@JudsonWolfe10 @jarrodwolfe @J_Wesson23 Let’s go Judson!

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

@CHS_Spartan_XC Strong race boys. Keep grinding!

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

Let’s Go Cade! Big finish today & looking forward to the next one.

[Spartan XC @CHS_Spartan_XC]

Spartan Results at the Spartan Invite:

Varsity Boys - 5th Place
7th - Cade Wright
13th - Hudson Hodges
20th - Landon Martinez

Varsity Girls - 🥈
11th - Paisley Stanley
13th - Ava Birdsall
14th - Marley Buck
15th - Charlotte Friudenberg
18th - Hailie Martinez

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

@nick_hendren48 @mattkendrick100 @sendnetwork @curtisdcook Woah, that’s awesome! I didn’t know that part. Excited how God is working through you.

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

Great start to the season - 2nd fastest time overall!

[Spartan XC @CHS_Spartan_XC]

Azle Clash of the Classes

Junior Boys: 🥈

🥈: Cade Wright
6th: Bennett Burgos

Junior Girls: 🥇

🥉: Marley Buck
4th: Charlotte Friudenberg
5th: Jill Wesson
6th: Kaydence Preston

#SpartanXC
@BurlesonSports
@BurlesonISD
@CHSSpartans

[Chris Wright @chrisw80]

Hey @grok who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was.

[Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick100]

So proud of Caroline and for Redemption City for reaching the lost! My favorite quote in this article, “Jesus was crucified at 33. I just started living at 33.” https://t.co/0NPsctuBbS