Martin Luther King Jr. How to Leave a Legacy That Matters. This is Jim Denison's

Daily article for Monday, January 21st, 2019. After 256 regular season games and 10 playoff

games, we now know that the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots will play in

Super Bowl 53 on February 3rd.

This will be the Patriots' fifth Super Bowl appearance in the last eight years and third straight.

We also know that the game, as important as it is for the two teams, their cities and football fans around the country, will change little about the world.

Meanwhile, North and South America witnessed last night the last total lunar eclipse of

the decade. It was called a Super Blood Wolf Moon, because the moon appeared slightly larger

than normal, super, it was a full eclipse, thus traditionally called a blood moon, and it was in January,

thus called a Wolf Moon in Native American and early colonial times.

But, like the Super Bowl, this interesting event will leave no lasting effects on the world.

How can you and I leave a legacy that matters?

For the answer, let's turn to a man who was assassinated 50 years ago, but, like it says in Hebrews 114, being dead yet speaketh.

Today is Martin Luther King Junior Day in the United States.

This annual observance is held on the third Monday in January in proximity to Dr. King's January 15th birthday.

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill making the day a federal holiday.

As a young man, Dr. King had many options. He was an outstanding student, skipping both the ninth and twelfth grades of high school

and entering college at the age of 15.

He became a pastor at the age of 25 and completed his Ph.D. at Boston University the

next year.

A brilliant orator, he had a very promising future in pastoral ministry or academics.

Then Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus.

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