Several recent studies have concluded that we lie or are lied to every five minutes or about two hundred times a day.  While that is shocking, what is more shocking is that  we feel increasingly less guilty about it.  At the same time studies indicate that people still consider truth-telling to be one of the most important of all virtues.  We feel violated when we discover we have been lied to.  Yet we are a nation of liars.  Many believe we need to lie to get by.  Jesus says that we demonstrate true righteousness when we mean what we say and say what we mean.  The truth actually sets us free. Next week we will learn how to be or become people of integrity.