“When the sun goes below the horizon he is not set; the heavens glow for a full hour after his departure. And when a good and great man sets, the sky of this world is luminous long after he is out of sight. Such a man cannot die out of this world. When he goes he leaves behind him much of himself. Being dead, he speaks.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR PAINLESS WAYS TO GROW TOWARD EACH OTHER AND TOWARD MATURITY, CALL OFF THE SEARCH.” – J. Grant Howard

“BETEN HEISST NICHT, DINGE VON GOTT BEKOMMEN. DAS IST NUR DER ERSTE ANFANG; BETEN HEISST, IN UEBEREINSTIMMUNG MIT GOTT ZU KOMMEN.” – OSWALD CHAMBERS

“The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.” – Knute Rockne

Honestly, I don’t like abbreviations. There are too many.

But I like the abbreviation LFT. That means also that I can tell you what it stands for.

But please listen to this first:

The Bible says three things about our leaders.

1. We must remember them. (The leaders who spoke the word of God to us.)

2. We must consider the outcome of their way of life.

3. We must imitate their faith.

You find all that in Hebrews 13:8.

One of the leaders who spoke the word of God to me was the director of the Bible school I went to in Germany.

He was a pioneer. Hundreds of lives were changed through bis ministry. He was the founder of Bible schools in Canada and in Europe. (Germany) He trusted God to do miracles.

I remember Him. I consider the outcome of his way of life. I want to imitate his faith.

I am reading in his biography that in many letters he has written  you find the abbrevation LFT after his signature.

LFT is short for “LET’S FINISH WELL.” He has done that. There is no doubt about that.

“The church must be one because a fragmented church  is not much help to a fragmented world.” – Justo L. Gonzalez

“One of the greatest tragedies in the life of the church today is  the way in which so many are content with those vague, general, useless statements about war and peace instead of preaching the gospel in all its simplicity and purity.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Nearly everyman who develops an idea, works at it up to the point where it looks impossible and then gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.” – Thomas Alva Edison