All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. — John 17:11 Does God answer prayer? Surely if God was going to answer anyone’s prayer you’d expect it would be Jesus’ prayer. John has preserved Jesus’ prayer for his disciples. 

Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts. — 1 John 5:10 Jesus exerts such a mysterious force over people. Years ago, James Kennedy wrote the book, What if Jesus Had Never Been Born? In it he explored the influence Jesus has had on all of the key aspects of life and history: health care, education, government, social services, the arts, the sciences, economics, and on and on. When you think about it, life as we know it today would be largely

...their delight is in the law of the Lord,    and on his law they meditate day and night — Psalm 1:2 Imagine what the world would be like if everyone “delighted in the law?” Think of laws as tools for making life work better? There’s a tool for just about everything. If you’ve got the right tool, you can do any job—better. So if laws make life work better, why do we have such a mixed record in keeping them? Not all laws, of cou