Watching John Cena prove the truth of his message by defeating a man whom WWE made every effort to present as unbeatable, I could not help but recall the story of Muhammad versus Rukana.
What the American people saw was the truth of the message that Ben Rhodes and an entire community of experts articulated, a "choice between peace and war" and an opportunity to "disengage" from the real possibility of yet another in the region, this time, nuclear war.
Another, Sorbian, tells of lies: "They said there were no Indians here before the flood," says the voice, its language, and, potentially, the truth of the message, are lost in a different kind of flood.
As proof of the truth of our message, we can point to our own experience, a frontier nation which joined democratic government to a market economy and created the free-est, most stable and prosperous nation in history.
Relating Mr. Lewis's poignant stories of existing slavery in Sudan will reinforce the truth of this message and remind us that we cannot take our own freedom for granted when so many in our world have not yet experienced their own Exodus, their own crossing from slavery to freedom.
And, despite my deep conviction in the truth of my message (and the occasional heads nodding in agreement), I feel guilty for blatantly informing such well-intentioned souls that perhaps their help wasn't all that helpful.
There is no reason for an advocate of a message rooted in truth to treat their opponents -- and by extension, oneself -- with indignity.
The notes, whose writer claims to be coming to Miranda's time to save a life, offer three signs of the truth of the messages.
As humanity evolves, in perfectly appropriate ways, so does our awareness of the emerging truth of God's message.
His message was the dynamite that cracked the religious veneer of works-based faith that had separated us from the truth of the Gospel message.
Recently, on the cable news channel I now refuse to name, mention or share the ridiculousness of, one of their commentators addressed the protests in Ferguson and New York (and really throughout the nation) saying "it'll be over by December 1st," dismissing the truth of the protests' message and passion of its voices.
