Daniel Patz

Follower of Jesus, husband and father.
American patriot and constitutionalist.
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[The Missions Show @MissionsPodcast]

The gospel doesn’t just change hearts, it transforms cultures.

@Scott_W_Dunford draws from missions history, when William Carey brought the gospel to India, it didn’t stay confined to personal belief. It confronted real evil—like the practice of widow burning (sati)—and helped lead to its abolition.

That’s what the gospel does. It calls out what is broken and brings gospel truth to shine on evil practices.

We don’t export our culture, but we do bring a message that challenges every culture to align with truth.

[Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill]

Today I asked an abortion advocate what her favorite method of abortion is.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

When my wife and I got married, there were moments we couldn’t pay bills because we had to buy formula. Every purchase was weighed against buying formula and taking care of our kid. I deferred my student loans multiple times because we struggled to make ends meet. Christy had to have a mastectomy right after we got married. We struggled with medical bills, student loans, and just living. At one point, with her health, I was working three jobs so she could stay home and be with the kids. Life was hard. Today, I’m on a plane with my producer and two listeners who have become good friends. I’m taking them to Las Vegas for a weekend of golf. I’m taking care of everything from the flight to the hotel to the course fees and food. For a long time I prayed that God would put me in a position to be as generous to others as God has been with me. It’s going to be a fun weekend.

And I think about the millionaires who justify shop lifting and petty crime because they think society is stacked against the poor and unfair and full of social violence.

My family struggled. I worked 3 jobs. I’ve found success. Life is hard and rarely fair. You don’t have to resent life or other people. Work hard. Be the best and what you can be. And do not covet or be jealous of others. Resentment is poison for your soul.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Gay surrogacy and gay adoption are predicated on the idea that gay men (or women) have a “right” to become parents. This idea is not only morally insane but also logically incoherent. It’s exactly like jumping off a building and claiming that you have the right to fly. Nobody has the right to defy the laws of nature. Where would such a right even originate? Two men cannot be parents. It’s impossible. Doesn’t matter how they feel or what they want. It cannot be. The only “right” at issue here is the right of the child. And the child has a right to be raised by a mother and a father, not two men masquerading as mother and father.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

You will be made to care.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

We overcomplicate things. We want it to be about ourselves. We want to feel in control. We want to do something. Sometimes, we do not even want to accept our sins are forgiven because surely that is too simple. We have to over-dramatize, over-complicate, and over-analyze.

Christianity is simple.

Put your trust in Jesus Christ. He is alive. If your heart is truly open to Him, He will transform your whole life. But you must surrender to Him.

https://t.co/rnk0VBDOrU

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Y'all, one final word on @WilliamWolfe before I go back to ignoring him.

In the past 24 hours, I have been overwhelmed with emails, private messages, text messages, etc. from people who have gone to church with him, worked with him, or otherwise been the subject of his vitriol. The number of people who have reached out blows my mind. Pastors who are good, Godly men have sent notes of appreciation with stories of William's vitriol directed at them or their friends. His former co-workers and even those he went to church with have stories.

What an appalling and abusive person, and he is clearly a very troubled soul. Often, in political movements, the people with serious issues are used by others to attack others. Those above the abusive person and around them egg them on because they'd never get their hands dirty, but have found a useful fool who has no self-awareness to know how dirty he gets himself.

So many of the pastors keep telling me they are fearful of engaging because their Twitter timelines fill up with awful invective from people if they respond. I have seen the examples of them being called demons and snakes.

First, I wouldn't be surprised if it is him. Second, even if it is not him, they are a small and loud minority. Set your Twitter notifications to only show you tweets from people who actually follow you, or only from those you follow.

Ignore the sound and fury of the tiny group of angry people. Also, know you are not alone and know that he has no power over you. He has alienated himself and his Center for Baptist Leadership by his abusive behavior.

The darkness will not overcome the light.

Lastly, William clearly is a troubled soul and he needs a lot of prayer. I'm going to back to ignoring him now. The rest of you just know I thank you for your kinds notes and you are not alone.

[Attorney General Pamela Bondi @AGPamBondi]

I just spoke to the Pastor in Minnesota whose church was targeted. Attacks against law enforcement and the intimidation of Christians are being met with the full force of federal law.

If state leaders refuse to act responsibly to prevent lawlessness, this Department of Justice will remain mobilized to prosecute federal crimes and ensure that the rule of law prevails.

[Joe Rigney @joe_rigney]

Eleven years ago today, I helped plant Cities Church.

I served as a pastor there for 8 years.

This is a normal Baptist Church.

They worship Jesus.

They love each other.

They seek the good of their neighbors.

And the Left hates them and wants to shut them down, because one of their pastors serves his country in law enforcement, putting his life on the line to remove rapists and violent criminal illegal immigrants from our streets.

The Democrats are the party of lawlessness, of cultural decay, social disorder, and death.

It’s time for Christian boldness—for courage and clarity about Jesus and sin.

And it’s time for our governing officials to fulfill their mandate and become a terror to evil conduct. They do not bear the sword in vain.

That’s what our nation needs.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Today Don Lemon and a group of leftist agitators stormed a church service to protest ICE.

This is a direct and flagrant violation of the FACE Act, which the Biden Administration used to throw pro-lifers in federal prison for years.

Don Lemon and his co-conspirators should be facing federal prison.

The Trump Administration must announce those charges immediately.

[Daniel Patz @danielpatz]

Merry CHRISTmas! Christ came as the fulfilment of prophesy. He is the Son of God! He is God! He has come to take away sins, to defeat the works of the devil, to deliver those who sit in darkness and in the valley of death. Turn to Him and submit! Believe! He is a treasure above all!

[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

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

President Trump, preserve the dignity of your office. Take this down.

[Daniel Patz @danielpatz]

@NFL_DovKleiman Edgar Bennett

[Daniel Patz @danielpatz]

@RealSkipBayless 🤦‍♂️

[John Ziegler @Zigmanfreud]

I have seen enough…

The PBS series “The American Revolution” is a profound disappointment.

It sucks almost all of the magic out of our founding (for fear of venerating white males) and is dreary, boring, and overtly woke.

PBS had an opportunity to prove their conservative critics wrong, instead they did the opposite.
🤮🥲

[Oliver Burdick @oliverburdick]

Left side is a human lung. Right side is a tree.

The tree breathes in what the lung breathes out. The lung breathes in what the tree breathes out.

God's design is incredible.

[David L. Bahnsen @DavidBahnsen]

This is the best 40 minute video you will watch all year. This is @benshapiro bringing receipts on the inexcusable, indefensible, unacceptable grotesquerie of Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson and anyone who would defend them. It is non-emotional, documented, and rooted to truth. And it is Buckley-esque when it comes to calling a Birch a Birch.
Tomorrow, my @nro Capital Record podcast links this whole escapade to the collapse of cogent economics that we Burkean conservatives must keep resisting.
The right is in a make-or-break moment and we will be fully broken if we don’t cut the cord from these nutters, pronto. Watch the whole video.
https://t.co/q3o3U1wBN7

[David L. Bahnsen @DavidBahnsen]

Moral clarity as more and more on the right lose their ever-loving minds. These are the times that will define the soul of the movement, and some will have the courage to stand up and do the right thing. People like @EWErickson . Others will prove themselves to be men without chests. Choose this day.
https://t.co/nntUcxbaGn

[Kramer's Gospel Thoughts @KramersFaith]

When I was 4, I punched my brother and my mom asked me “should we hit other people?”

Devastated to learn that my mom isn’t aware of the most basic moral principles (she doesn’t know whether hitting people is a good thing to do and had to ask her 4-year old son).

Concerning.