Lent 5- Lust
2 Sam 11:1-27; Psalm 51; 1 Cor 6:12-20; Matt 5:27-30 We are continuing our series on the Seven Deadly Sins. This week, the deadly sin we are looking at is lust. This is another desire that many in our society want to amplify and capitalize on. Sexual imagery is blatant in TV shows, movies, music, magazines, and in advertising. It is used to grab hold of our attention, and it has been very normalized. We are immersed in an overly-sexualized culture that is often using sexual imagery to manipulate us into buying things and watching their content. The effect of this is that we can be left with these images floating in our minds, and with an exaggerated sense of the importance of sex. We can be left thinking that our happiness depends on being sexually attractive as well as sexually active. Thinking about the way our society treats sex, C.S. Lewis in his book Mere Christianity asks us to imagine a culture where people gather around a covered dish. The cover is slowly lifted while peopl...