... . Why does God do this? Doesn’t our experience tell us that true love cannot stand aloof or remain incognito? By becoming flesh in Jesus Christ, God provides us with a model of what is truly human or normal. What is "normal," we all want to know. Mort Sahl used to tell about the bank robber who pulled a gun on the bank teller and commanded, "Hand over the cash and act normal." To which the teller replied, "Define your terms." In Jesus, God has defined what is normal, what is truly human. "Look at Jesus ...
... loved the church is the final clue to overcoming the marriage gap. It is overcome when IN MARRIAGE (AS IN ALL RELATIONSHIPS) WE GIVE OURSELVES TO ANOTHER. This is the day of the Playboy philosophy. The trouble with Playboy Magazine is not what Mort Sahl used to say about the nude centerfold pictures, (i.e. that children would grow up thinking all women had three-folds and staples in their navels,) but the philosophy expressed in the pages that women, like the subtitle of the magazine, are "Entertainment ...
