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Today’s Feature
The fact that our righteousness comes from Yahweh makes sense from a human perspective if we think about it this way. Consider a married couple for a moment. The relationship between man and wife is not good if either of them conditions their love on the other one doing something for them. If they feel as though they must earn the love of their spouse by doing something, then they are miserable.
They may accept a bad relationship and learn to live with it, but it is not a healthy, happy relationship because they never know where they stand with one another. They wake up each morning uncertain, wondering if today is the day their relationship will fall apart and knowing that if they make a mistake it could come to an end.
In the backs of their minds, they are constantly thinking that maybe he or she will meet another person who can do more than I can or do things better than I can. Doubt and uncertainty take their toll over time and make life miserable.
Healthy marriage relationships are built on love that is unconditional. Each spouse loves the other no matter what happens, and both of them know it. Unconditional love is the foundation of a good marriage relationship, and it is the kind of love that Yahweh has for us. He wants us to wake up each morning confident and certain that we cannot lose His love. God wants us to have faith in Him to love us and take care of us forever.
By declaring that our righteousness is not based on our own effort and initiative but on Yahweh’s righteousness instead, He opens the door for us to have the kind of permanent relationship with Him that He and we desire. Yahweh’s righteousness never changes. He is righteousness.
Yahweh does not want us to wake up every morning thinking we might sin today and destroy our relationship with Him. God absolutely does not want us to go through life wondering what will happen when we die and meet Him face-to-face for the final judgment.
The truth is that all of us sin every day. If Yahweh’s love for us were conditioned on our being sinless, then He could not love any of us. Therefore, Yahweh bases His love for us on His steadfast righteousness instead of our righteousness, which as Isaiah said, is “like a filthy garment.” (Isaiah 64: 6; Isaiah 64: 5 in the Tanach ) Now that is true love.
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SnyderTalk® Commentary
Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is an issue that touches all of us in one way or another. Take a look at the articles below for a primer on the subject and keep your eyes and ears open.
I want to be very clear. I am not a Chicken Little. The process of reviewing Internet content and delivery is just getting underway. That said I know there is reason for concern. Judging by the way the Obamaites attacked Fox News this past week, we can’t take anything for granted. Even so, now is not the time for alarm.
We need to take action, and by that I mean it’s time to start contacting your members of the House and Senate. Please don’t attach your name to a mass email that is supposed to get to them one day in the sweet by-and-by, and don’t send anyone money to advance this issue. Take a few minutes; look up the email addresses for your Senators and member of the House; and send them an email from your computer. That will do it for now, and it won’t take a lot of time.
Click on the link below and you can locate your elected officials email addresses and fax numbers. An email that makes your case in simple, direct terms is ideal. Just make it short and sweet.
A representative republic is a wonderful thing if people participate. Let’s count on our representatives to do the right thing when we give them good data. Please feel free to use the information in the articles below. If your elected officials don’t do the right thing, the next step will be to hold them accountable, but our goal for now is to inform them about our opinions and why we hold them.
- Net neutrality is Fairness Doctrine for Internet
- McCain moves to block FCC net neutrality
- Google, Verizon issue joint statement on net neutrality
- Google Public Policy Blog: Net Neutrality
- 5 big hopes for net neutrality
- U.S. regulators support open Internet rule
- CRTC OKs web limits
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Climate Issues and Related Things
- U.S. sovereignty and the Climate Summit
- We’re all balloon boys now
- Obama urged to intensify push for climate measure
- Climate change discussions fail to agree on finance pledges
- Scientists rebut claim that man causes climate change
- Biggest obstacle to global climate deal may be how to pay for it
- Time running out for climate talks
- Harvard economist: Cap-and-trade is all pain for no gain
You can receive weekly updates on important climate issues by going to Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) and asking to have your email address added to their distribution list. I highly recommend it.
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Today’s Events Shaping Our World
U.S. and Western Hemisphere
- A convenient memory or an agenda?
- Dumb and dumber, by choice
- Chamber struggles to stay cool
- Rahm to speak to chamber board
- Firms take fire in war on chamber
- White House attacks worry moderate dems
- Bernanke’s trillion dollar decision
- Women voters key to NJ, VA elections
- Cantor: Fox fight not the American way
- Bureau chiefs band together for Fox
- Grayson: Cheney is a vampire
Video—Obama appeals to small businesses
- Guantanamo: home of the brave?
- Drugs and violence in Rio: the bottom line
- America and China: a wary respect
- Currencies: the diminishing dollar
- The Galleon affair: all at sea
- I don’t believe in global warming, which must be stopped
- Making up healthcare as they go along
- Mister tough guy
Video—Treasury: IRS employees abused credit
- Obama declares swine flu a national emergency
- America’s Obama obsession
- Islamist extremism and the murder of Daniel Pearl
- Court document ties Young to Alaska corruption
- Recyclers want more time to dispose of clunkers
- The bankers and the bureaucrats
- Navy’s newest warships top out at more than 50 mph
New Navy Ship
- Pelosi’s healthcare endgame
- Reid near 60 votes for public option
- Rush, Beck and the balloon dad
- Feinberg touts his special mastery
- 15 year-old charged with murder of Missouri girl
- Strict Oklahoma abortion laws spark court battles
- Hawaii regulators approve first U.S. tuna farm
Video—breast cancer patients pay high insurance premiums
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Israel and Middle East
“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind Yahweh, take no rest for yourselves; and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”
Isaiah 62: 6-7
The Kotel
- Israel, the U.S., and the Goldstone Report
- Netanyahu coming to U.S.
- Iran’s nuclear program: deadline missed
- Iraq’s fragile security
- Methane gas likely to blame for Umm Jouzeh incident
A Statue of Elijah on top of Mount Carmel
- Black cloud blights Cairo
- The latest anti-Israel stunt
- Netanyahu: U.S.-led effort is best way to stop Iran danger
- 12 men receive 15-20 years prison terms for church attack
The Mount of Olives
- Jerusalem police to beef up presence around Temple Mount
- Tense relations between U.S. and Israel ahead of J Street Conference
- Israel asks U.N. chief to nix Gaza war crimes report
- Iran official: West trying to cheat us with nuke deal
The Wilderness in Southern Israel
- Lebanese to Israel: hands off our hummus
- Iran: influential lawmakers criticize nuclear deal
- Netanyahu didn’t mean he backed Israel probe of Gaza War
Video—IAEA inspectors head to Iran
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China, Russia, India, and Asia-Pacific
- South Waziristan: there they go again
- Domestic outsourcing in India
- China and commodities
- Afghanistan election
- Banyan: hell on Earth
- Indonesia’s new cabinet: like the last lot
- Doing business in China
- Army captures Pakistan Taliban leader’s home town
- Taliban calls on Afghans to boycott runoff
- Japan PM says he will not rush Okinawa decision
- NATO defense ministers endorse the McChrystal plan
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal
Video—Pakistan blast kills 2 dozen
- Headlines in The Moscow Times
- Headlines in Voice of Russia
- Headlines in Xinhua News
- Headlines in The Times of India
- Headlines in The Asahi Shimbun
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Europe and Africa
- France, Germany, and the EU: future dreaming
- Roman Catholics and Anglicans: the pope’s power grab
- Democracy in Africa: a good example
- Nigeria’s hopeful amnesty: a chance to end the delta rebellion
- Somalia’s embattled Christians: almost expunged
- German politicians agree to form new government
- New German government to slash taxes
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hermann Groehe of the conservative Christian Democratic Union
Video—thousands flee as Taliban fight intensifies
- Headlines in the BBC
- Headlines in The Times of London
- Headlines in Der Spiegel
- Headlines in Deutsche Welle-World
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