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There are 54 sermon illustrations on Legacy on IllustrateTheWord, across 3 categories.
On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. almost did not return to Memphis. His first visit in late March had ended in violence —...
On May 4, 1994, the city of São Paulo, Brazil, came to a standstill. Three million mourners filled the streets to say goodbye to Ayrton...
On the night of June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed out and...
In the winter of 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton canceled a skiing holiday to travel to Prague. What he found — refugee...
The upright man bequeaths his heirs three precious gifts: (1) His example—a living testimony that sons and daughters may trace throughout their own success.
Thomas Guthrie, the Scottish minister, was asked about his possessions, he replied with unmistakable joy: "I am rich in nothing but children." He spoke from genuine abundance—eleven children filled his household.
On August 4, 1936, seventy thousand spectators packed the Olympic Stadium in Berlin as Jesse Owens, a Black sharecropper's son from Alabama, stepped to the...
In August 1936, Jesse Owens stood on the verge of elimination in the long jump qualifying rounds at the Berlin Olympics. He had already fouled...