Author: DwightClough

(A little longer than usual – published by request)

Beliefs are tricky.
You can be 100% correct—
and, at the same time, terribly, horribly wrong.

Most people don’t understand this.

For centuries Christians have battled one another in an effort to nail down the correct theology, doctrine, Bible interpretation, denomination, or whatever.
More recently, the focus seems to be on WWJV—
What Would Jesus Vote or who would Jesus vote for (or against).

And, of course, we all think we’re right, that God is on our side.

But is God on our side?
Is He?

That brings me back to Joshua chapter 5: Joshua, the chosen leader, leads the people of God into the Promised Land, and walks up the road leading to Jericho. There he sees a man (or someone who looks like a man) standing in the middle of the road with a drawn sword in his hand.

Interesting.
A warrior.

So Joshua asks what—on the surface—seems like a perfectly reasonable question:
“Are you for us or for our enemies?”

The reply?
The angelic warrior, the commander of the armies of the Lord shakes his head.
“Neither.”

Let that sink in.

Because 3,400 years later, we’re still asking the same question:
Are You for us or are You for our enemies?

And without giving God time to reply, we answer for Him. Of course, You’re for us. After all, we’re right.

But if we had waited for the reply, I think we would hear: “Neither.”
I’m not here to become a tool in your machine.

Beliefs are tricky.
We very much want to believe that we are right (and you may be) and that God endorses our beliefs.

But let me see if I can explain why it’s not that simple.

Consider this simple drawing of an orange tree:

We have roots, a trunk, branches and leaves, and fruit.
The trunk is our head beliefs: our theology, our political views, our opinions and convictions on everything.
The branches and leaves are our practices, choices, policies, decisions—our deeds.
The fruit could be love, joy, peace, patience, and more of the same; or it could be impatience, moral impurity, envy, unresolved anger, and more of the same.
That brings us to the roots. The roots are our heart beliefs, our gut level beliefs—what feels true, the messages that play in the back of our minds.

We want to take that trunk to God and say, “I’m right. I believe all the correct things about religion and politics.”

But God doesn’t just look at the trunk. He looks at the whole tree.

So yeah, you and I can be 100% correct, and, at the same time, horribly wrong.

All of this gives context to a powerful passage in James:

“Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such ‘wisdom’ does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.” James 3:13-18 NIV

How does God decide if we’re “correct” or not?

Look at the contrast:

“Correct beliefs” or wisdom:
• good life
• humility
• purity
• peace-loving
• considerate
• submissive
• full of mercy
• good fruit
• impartial
• sincere
• peacemaking
• righteousness

“Wrong beliefs” or nonwisdom
• bitter envy
• hidden selfish ambition
• boasting (arrogance)
• denial
• earthly
• unspiritual
• demonic
• disorder
• every evil practice

With all this in mind, I want to offer a couple of observations and then a prescription.

Observation #1: Arrogance
One of the biggest obstacles to the forward movement of God’s purposes is arrogance in the people of God. I don’t know what God is doing, has done, or will do in your life to knock you off your pedestal, but believe me, He will if He hasn’t already. I say this as someone who has been humbled again and again by failure, by poverty, by embarrassing health problems, by disappointment—I don’t know how much arrogance is left in me, but I can tell you by the grace of God it’s less than it was.

I can say this to you and I can say it to me: If we’ve stopped listening, if we’re always right, if we can’t learn, if we consider other people inferior to us, we’re already wrong. Remember that Jesus rejoiced that God’s wisdom was hidden from those who thought they were wise (Matthew 11:25-26, see also Proverbs 26:12).

Observation #2: Anger
Eliphaz, who was wrong about so many things, was right when he said, “Resentment kills a fool.” There’s a reason we are told not to make friends with a hot-tempered man (Proverbs 22:24-25). Unresolved anger gives the devil a foothold in our lives (Ephesians 4:26-27); it creates a bitter root, and through it many are defiled (Hebrews 12:15).

Anger will trick us into thinking we are wise when we are not. This is particularly important if you have experienced injustice or if you belong to a group that has experienced injustice.

Here’s why: The enemy’s purpose in injustice is to mess with how you think, to warp your beliefs. He wants to keep you so focused on the hurt that you can’t see how he’s messing with your mind.

When Jesus experienced gross injustice, His response was: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they’re doing.” Likewise, Stephen, the first Christian martyr, died forgiving. Stephen triumphed over the enemy because he died with a pure heart.

Political parties (and yes, I mean all of them) trawl for unresolved anger because they know if they can harness your anger, they will have you on their leash forever.

Years ago, I sat in a restaurant with a man who loudly complained about people of color “playing the race card.” But when I dug into his backstory, I discovered that he experienced what he believed to be great injustice when he was a child. His loud—and rather embarrassing—rant wasn’t about race at all. It was about unresolved anger, unhealed hurts.

And that brings me to a prescription:

Fix the roots first.
You cannot have a healthy tree without healthy roots. Those messages that play in the back of your mind matter. They dictate how you experience your life. They color your head beliefs (the trunk), influence your decisions (branches and leaves), and ultimately determine whether the fruit of your life will be sweet or rotten.

Fix the roots first.

Bring those hurts, all that injustice, that damaged past, those things that feel true—even though we know they aren’t—all those lies we’ve been taught to believe—bring it all to Jesus.

Not just once. But as a lifelong practice.

“What do You want me to know?” That needs to be a daily prayer.

We are broken people—you and me—but Jesus makes us whole.

Dwight

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“Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.’” Revelation 4:8

This is the center of the book of Revelation. An unchanging God, fully in charge of the church, the pagans, the spirits, the devils, the angels, the dead, and the living—takes His place as King of the universe, under the constant inspection of these super intelligent and powerful creatures.

And they are in awe.

“Why all the eyes?” I ask our Father. “Is it so they can see You, or so You can look them in the eye, and see inside their spirits?”

And then I realize they see it all.

They see all of history. They see every secret thing that has ever been done—both good and evil. They see the worst—all the horrors perpetrated by humanity. They see the church with all its beauty and all its flaws. And they see God.

Though they see the depths of evil, they are overwhelmed, not with what’s wrong with this world, but rather with what’s right with God. Triumphant, holy, unchanging, sovereign God.

It’s a ray of light in our dark world. If we could see enough, we too would be overwhelmed.

Be encouraged!
Dwight

Yes.

The short answer is yes.

Jesus said, “Go make disciples of all nations… teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you.”

That was written to you. And it was written to me.

Jesus expects us to go out and change our world. Make disciples of all nations. Bring heaven to earth. Transform our world. Change everything.

And yes, that is impossible.

And yes, it is expected.

How do you do the impossible?

Jesus, in the same context, provides the answer:

1. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me (Jesus).
2. I (Jesus) am with you always, even to the end of the age.

Whatever assignment Jesus has given you comes with (a) His authority, and (b) His presence.

Put another way, you carry the presence of Jesus into your world. What has God asked you to do today? Be a mom? Repair a relationship? Share your story? Fix someone’s car? Pray for someone who is sick?

In whatever way you show up, you are not alone.

Jesus is with you.

Be encouraged!

Dwight

God doesn’t make mistakes. He put you here in this exact moment in history for a reason, a powerful reason. You have a role in His Kingdom no one else can fulfill. All of us—including me—will be changed for the good because you are here.

You have been sent here to carry the life-changing presence of Jesus into a broken world. You are here to bring eternal good into many lives. And you will do it in a way nobody else can.

There’s something magical about finding your why—your God given purpose, your calling, your mission.

It defines and gives meaning to every waking moment of your life.

It’s freeing.

It’s empowering.

It’s 100% you and it’s 100% God.

It’s amazing.

I am in awe at the work God is doing inside you and inside me. He is here, transforming us, and through us, He is transforming the world.

Dwight

PS. This is adapted from my book, The Good Locked Up Inside You.

I keep coming back to Matthew 25:21:

“Well done, good and faithful servant!”

I don’t know about you, but I would really like to hear those words when my life is over.

You probably know the story without even needing to peek back at Matthew 25. The master left talents—bags of gold—something to work with. Some of his servants put those assets to work. And one did not.

At the end of the story, there was an accounting. What did you do with what I gave you?

It presents us with a very important question:

What is God asking you to do with your life?

That’s a really important question.

If we want to get to “Well done, good and faithful servant,” we need to find the answer to that question.

Do you have the answer? Do you have your answer—the answer that fits you?

I’ve been obsessing about this for a long time—in some ways for my entire life. Some day we stand before God, and compared to that moment, everything else shrinks into insignificance.

Only one thing matters.

Are we doing what God is asking us to do?

Or are we not?

Almost everybody chases success. Some people find it. And please know that I wish every success for you. I pray God rains down buckets of blessing right on top of your head—so much that you don’t have room to contain it all.

But at the end of the day, success doesn’t really matter all that much.

Only one thing matters.

Are we doing what God is asking us to do?

Are we headed for “Well done, good and faithful servant”?

Dwight

PS. Are you into making disciples? If you are, I’m working on a project that I think might interest you. Ping me back and we can talk about it.

Hi all

I’m excited to announce the release of my latest book, The Good Locked Up Inside You. This one means a lot to me personally because it really pulls together everything the Lord has been teaching me over the last 68 years and it introduces my new online discipleship community Empower Good.

Here’s what people are saying:

“…a refreshing challenge for anyone tired of surface-level Christianity… goes beyond clichés and gets honest about why so many believers feel stuck—and what genuine transformation can look like… practical and deeply encouraging… clear, direct, and full of hope.” ~Steve Freitag, Executive Director, CrossCounsel International Ministries

“There is a better, truer you already inside—the person God created you to be. This book helps you bring that person forward… This isn’t about trying harder. It’s about letting God transform you from the inside out—and stepping into a life of real purpose and real love.” ~LaPhonso Robinson, Author, Wisdom Drops

It’s available on Amazon in paperback or as a Kindle ebook.

Amazon tells me if you order today, you can still get it (at least here) before Christmas.

I’ll be getting author’s copies after Christmas, and I’ll get those out to people who helped with the book.

Many blessings and Merry Christmas!

Dwight

1. Jesus feels our pain. (Lazarus, John 11)
2. God is more humane than religious leaders with warped priorities. (Healing shriveled hand on Sabbath, Matthew 12:10-13, Mark 3:1-5, Luke 6:6-10. See also Luke 13:11-17; 14:1-4)
3. Jesus has the power to fix everything that has gone wrong in our lives. (Raising widow’s son, Luke 7:11-17)
4. Jesus is willing to make us whole. (Man healed of leprosy, Matthew 8:2-4, Mark 1:40-42, Luke 5:12-13)
5. Healing is a priority (even on his way to heal a dying girl, Jesus stopped to care for this woman). (Woman with bleeding, Matthew 9:20-22, Mark 5:25-34, Luke 8:43-48)
6. Jesus even healed his “enemies.” (Malchus, Luke 22:50-51)
7. Jesus is never late. (Raising Jairus’s daughter, Matthew 9:18-26, Mark 5:21-43, Luke 8:40-56. See also John 11.)
8. Jesus cares about the pain nobody else knows about. (Woman with bleeding, Matthew 9:20-22, Mark 5:25-34, Luke 8:43-48)
9. God isn’t about blame; He’s about making us whole. (Man born blind, John 9:1-7)
10. God loves the people the crowd throws away. (Bartimaeus, Matthew 20:29-34, Mark 10:46-52, Luke 18:35-43)
11. Healing helps us believe. (Royal official’s son, John 4:46-54)
12. Jesus breaks us out of our limiting paradigms. (Healing at the pool, John 5:1-9)
13. Jesus notices and commends faith. (Centurion’s servant, Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10,)
14. Jesus draws out and honors creative, persistent faith. (Canaanite woman, Matthew 15:21-28, Mark 7:24-30)
15. Jesus considers our desires. (Bartimaeus, Matthew 20:29-34, Mark 10:46-52, Luke 18:35-43)
16. Faith is expressed with action. (Ten lepers, Luke 17:11-19)
17. Here’s the faith Jesus calls on us to have: “Do you believe I am able to do this?” (Blind healed, Matthew 9:27-31)
18. What Jesus touches becomes clean, healed, whole. (Man healed of leprosy, Matthew 8:2-4, Mark 1:40-42, Luke 5:12-13)
19. Jesus engages with us; He does not heal from a distance. (Touching the man’s ears and tongue, Mark 7:31-37)
20. Jesus persists until the healing is complete. (2 part healing, Mark 8:22-26)
21. Jesus highlights the importance of prayer. (Epileptic or demon-possessed boy, Mark 9:17-29. See also Matthew 17:14-21, Luke 9:38-43.)
22. On some level, the things that injure and infect is the work of the enemy. (Demon-Possessed men, Matthew 8:27-34, Mark 5:1-15, Luke 8:27-35; See also Matthew 12:22 and Luke 11:14, Acts 10:38.)
23. Jesus confronts and corrects what’s damaging us. (Jesus rebukes the fever in Peter’s mother-in-law, Luke 4:38-39; see also Matthew 8:14-15, Mark 1:30-31)
24. Healing shows Christ’s authority over the enemy. (Healing demon-possessed, Mark 1:23-26, Luke 4:33-35)
25. Healing show’s Christ’s divine authority. (Paralyzed man whose sins were forgiven, Matthew 9:2-7, Mark 2:3-12, Luke 5:18-25)
26. Gratitude is a virtue. (Ten lepers, Luke 17:11-19)

What does God see when He looks at you? I’m speaking to you moms out there. What does God see when He looks at you?

Having had a chance to get to know God over the past 57 years since my conversion, I think I have a pretty good idea. But, lest you think I’m just making things up, let me go to the Bible. 1 Peter. Chapter 3:

“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.”

What does that mean? God isn’t saying that you can’t wear nice clothes, fix your hair, wear makeup and jewelry. That’s not the message. He’s saying something much deeper than that. He’s saying: That’s not where your beauty comes from.

Do you know that when God sees you, He sees beauty? And did you know that your beauty—which cannot be taken away by messy hair, added pounds, advancing age—your beauty is of great worth—great value—to God?

He treasures it. He treasures the beauty He has given you.

What is that beauty? Where does it come from?

Your beauty comes from what you do with what God trusts with you. Did you know that God trusts His most precious possessions to you?

I’m talking about the children who are in your care. There is nothing more fragile and more valuable to God than a child. Look at the priority Jesus placed on children. In the first five or six years of life, almost everything lasting about a person’s self image, their confidence, their values, their personality, the messages they carry around in their heart for the rest of their lives—it’s all formed there.

And God trusts you. You! He trusts you to oversee that.

Why?

It’s because of your beauty. Your gentle and quiet spirit.

Let’s look at those two words.

Gentle. That means the most fragile person is safe with you. That’s why. That’s why God trusts His most precious possessions with you. Because He knows they will be safe with you.

Quiet. It is a quiet answer that turns away wrath. Our world is filled with unrighteous anger. But you—you are speaking quiet words of common sense to bring us all back to our senses, to get off our testosterone-fueled anger and aggression, and calm way down and talk things out.

It’s of great worth to God. Your beauty. What you bring to our world.

Thank you, Moms, for being you.

And thank you to my wife and to my mom for being amazing moms to your children.

Much love!

Dwight

Early on, I used to think that Christian maturity was all about theological knowledge or Bible knowledge.

I was wrong.

I’ve met people who know the Bible and theology inside and out, but are arrogant, argumentative, and difficult to be around. (In fact, once upon a time, I was that person.)

Neither is Christian maturity about flashy spiritual gifts, charismatic leadership, having a big following, writing many books, having celebrity status, or being in leadership.

What is Christian maturity? It really boils down to four things:

• Wanting what God wants
• Loving what God loves
• Hating what God hates
• Thinking like God thinks

What does that look like? Galatians 5:22-23, James 3:17 give us a pretty good idea.

More in this 10-minute video…

And, if you’re wondering how to get from here to there, I’m working on a new course on spiritual maturity. Interested? Ping me, and I’ll let you know when it’s available…

Be encouraged!
Dwigh

Tomorrow is Easter—resurrection Sunday.

Jesus rose from the dead. How does that make a difference in our lives today? Let me suggest 8 reasons why it matters.

#1 It shows that God is alive and well

Imagine for a moment a universe without God. We’ll need to ignore the troubling issue of nothing creating everything. Let’s pretend we have a universe without God. No Creator. No God.

Humanity happens by random chance. People live and die and this goes on for ages. Then Jesus of Nazareth comes along claiming to be the Son of God, and we think, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Another looney tune. Then he’s crucified—put to death by jealous power-crazed fanatics. No big deal. We’ve seen all of this before.

But then something we can’t explain happens. On the third day we visit His tomb and it’s empty. The squad of Roman soldiers assigned to guard His tomb couldn’t keep Him dead. You’re trying to figure out what happened when there He is right in front of you—flesh and bones—you can touch Him, you can hug Him, He eats a meal in front of you, but at the same time He can appear or disappear at will, and pass through walls.

Wait a second! you’re thinking. The person who was just tortured almost beyond recognition—if He had survived—would require weeks of hospitalization, multiple surgeries, months of physical therapy just to be able to function—that person is standing in front of you more alive than He’s ever been.

What just happened broke reality. There’s no naturalistic, scientific explanation, and there never will be. Science could advance for another million years, and still be clueless.

There’s only one explanation. What just happened is supernatural. God is present. God is alive and well.

 

#2 It shows that God is good

Since we’re playing around with alternate realities, let me offer you this one. Instead of Jesus Christ rising from the dead, being seen by more than 500 witnesses, and then subsequently ascending into heaven where He sits at the right hand of God the Father, where He remains until one day He will return to this earth to judge the living and the dead; instead of Jesus Christ rising from the dead…

Adolph Hitler rises from the dead.

Try to process that.

It’s a nightmare, right? It would say things about God that are almost too terrible to imagine.

But God did not raise Adolph Hitler or Joseph Stalin or Genghis Khan from the dead. He raised Jesus Christ. And that tells us something about God. It tells us that God put His stamp of approval on Jesus. If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus.

What do we discover when we look at Jesus? Here are my observations:

1. He hurts when we hurt. “Jesus wept.” It’s the shortest and perhaps the most powerful verse in the Bible. When we feel pain, Jesus feels pain as well.
2. Jesus was kind to children. He notices and protects and values the most vulnerable among us.
3. Jesus elevated the value of women. In a culture where women were often thought of as little more than property, Jesus again and again treated women with respect and compassion.
4. Jesus cared about the poor. It permeates His message and His actions.
5. Jesus included the people His world threw away.
6. Jesus taught—and modeled—forgiveness, kindness, and mercy.
7. Jesus healed people who were sick and hurting.
8. Jesus helped people who were struggling. He helped them find their way back to God.
9. Jesus elevated sacrificial, unselfish love as the highest value.
10. Jesus outsmarted all of His opponents.

When you put that together, it creates a beautiful picture of God.

 

#3 It solves the biggest problem we’re ever going to face

Death.

It robs us of everyone we care about.

It hangs over all of us—inescapable.

Jesus is the only one who knows how to solve that problem.

He was dead.

Now He’s alive.

In the words of C. S. Lewis, Jesus “has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death.”

Now Jesus turns to us and says, “You see what I did? I can make that happen for you. I am the resurrection and the life.”

In 1 John 5:12, the Bible says, “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”

We have a choice:

If we choose Jesus, we choose life. If we stiff arm Jesus, we choose death.

We can say, “Jesus, I invite You into my life. You can be everything You want to be and do everything You want to do in my life—not just today, but every day.” If you make that choice, death no longer has the final word over you. Someday, your tomb will be empty, and you will be in possession of eternal life.

Or alternatively, we can say, “Jesus, for whatever reason, I don’t like You, I don’t want You; I choose death instead of You.”

 

#4 It shows that we made the right choice

Buddha was a guy with interesting ideas. But Buddha was dead at age 80 and his body is still in the grave. Karl Marx was a guy with interesting ideas. But Karl Marx was dead at age 64 and his body is still in the grave. Muhammad was a guy with interesting ideas. But Muhammad was dead at age 63 and his body is still in the grave. Charles Darwin was a guy with interesting ideas. But Charles Darwin was dead at age 73 and his body is still in the grave.

I could go on, but hopefully you get the point.

None of those people rose from the dead.

They lived. The spouted off their interesting ideas. And then they died. End of story.

But Jesus is different.

Only Jesus rose from the dead. And that puts Him in a totally different league.

If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, then what is He? He’s just a guy with some interesting ideas, right?

But He did rise from the dead. That gives Him the authority to say things about life and death and eternal life that nobody else who ever lived has the same authority to say.

 

#5 It proves that eternal life is a real thing

Sixty years after the resurrection, the Apostle John encounters the risen Christ on the Island of Patmos. If the normal processes of aging applied to the resurrection body of Jesus, you would expect that He would be walking with a walker, hearing with a hearing aid, and seeing with some pretty heavy duty glasses. But we don’t see any of that. If anything, Jesus is now more alive than He was when John saw Him last—when He ascended into heaven. His presence is powerful, overwhelming, unforgettable.

Before the resurrection of Jesus, people hoped that their spirit would live on after death. But Jesus changed that hope into reality. His spirit returned to the grave, took charge of His abandoned corpse, fixed everything that was wrong with it, made it better than it ever was, and brought it fully, totally back to life. And Jesus lives in that body today.
He took something that was theoretically possible with God, and made it happen right before our eyes. Eternal life is real.

 

#6 It shows that God has not abandoned planet earth

Jesus returned.

He could have just gone on to heaven in spirit and been quite happy and fully alive without His body.

But He returned.

He returned to earth.

Returning to earth was worth it to Him.

In so doing, He set the stage for His eventual return where He will resurrect everyone who has ever lived, conduct a final judgment, and establish His unending Kingdom here on earth.

Humanity has pretty much messed up this planet in almost every conceivable way, but Jesus sees something here worth saving, and His return to earth to pick up His body, to talk to His followers, it sets the stage for the restoration of all things.

 

#7 It means that His sacrificial death on the cross was complete

Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins. He is the final sacrifice for our sins. You can find language like this repeated over and over in the Bible.

The resurrection of Jesus shows us that His sacrifice is complete. From the cross, Jesus said, “It is finished.” And God validates those words by raising Jesus from the dead. No more sacrifice is needed. The job is done.

Paul underscores this in 1 Corinthians when he writes, “if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.” (1 Corinthians 15:17) And again in Romans, he writes that Jesus “was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.” (Romans 4:25)

The job of paying for sin is finished.

 

#8 It means we win

Since the day Jesus was nailed to the cross, over 200 million Christians have paid for their faith with their lives.
They were martyrs, and even today, in 2025, Christians continue to be martyred at an alarming rate. On Palm Sunday, 51 Christians were murdered in northern Nigeria by Fulani terrorists. Even though it gets scant media attention, attacks like this happen frequently, and they happen all over the world.

Since Cain killed Abel, the world, the flesh, and the devil have done everything they can to wage war against the people of God.

The resurrection is our victory.

It says to all our enemies, in the words of Jusin Martyr: “You can kill us, but you cannot harm us.” You can kill us, but you cannot win, because we are coming back with life that can never be destroyed.

Be encouraged!
Dwight

 

PS. Did Jesus really rise from the dead? Is this historical fact? These books will help:
• The Case for Easter: Journalist Investigates the Evidence for the Resurrection, by Lee Strobel
• The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, by Gary R. Habermas
• The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach, by Michael Licona
• Raised on the Third Day: Defending the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus, by W. David Beck and Michael R. Licona
• The Resurrection of the Son of God, N. T. Wright