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60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon

Horace McMillon

If we can hope and if we can love, we can change the world, starting with our own. "60 Seconds of Hope" your daily oasis of positivity and inspiration! Join Horace McMillon each day for a minute reflection designed to equip, empower, and inspire you to be your best self and to help all of us make the world a better place. Kickstart each morning with a dose of hope to uplift your spirits and set a positive tone for the day ahead. Tune in and embrace the power of positivity!

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Why We Don’t See God

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/20

Send us a text “While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.” - Luke 24:15-16 These two weren’t the closest disciples. But they were loyal and faithful disciples. They were still with the eleven after Jesus’s execution. Yet they were not able to recognize the risen Jesus walking and talking to them. Why not? The text gives us a hint. They said, “we had hoped that he was the one to redeem ...

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How to Celebrate Easter

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/19

Send us a text How to Celebrate Easter “Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough” from 1 Corinthians 5:7 The celebration of Easter, or more descriptively Resurrection Day, reminds us that we all get to start again. We acknowledge the past. We learn from the past. But we don’t live there anymore. Starting with our thoughts and intentions, continuing to our words and actions, and concluding with our associations and environments, anything that does not f...

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Get Ready. Be Ready. Stay Ready.

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/18

Send us a text “This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.” - Exodus 12:11 As Jesus ate his last Passover, he likely thought back to the first Passover. The first Passover meal marked not only the end of bondage and enslavement, it mark the beginning of a new journey. It marked the beginning of a journey of an indeterminate length to an unknown destination, but...

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Time to Bury the Past

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/18

Send us a text Time to Bury the Past “Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.” - Romans 6:4 Some of us, like Paul himself, have done some bad things, shameful things, things people will forever hold against us and we hold against ourselves. Some of us are on a bad road. Maybe we initially chose it. Maybe we were pulled and drugged onto it. Maybe w...

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Every Day is a Gift

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/17

Send us a text Every Day Is a Gift “This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” - Psalm 118:24 Every day is a gift. It doesn’t mean that some days aren’t long and hard. It doesn’t mean that some days aren’t filled with challenges and difficulties. But even on our hardest days, if we remember that it is a gift, we will see the beauty, we will feel the love, we will find the hope to make it through. It’s interesting that this Psalm 118 was incl...

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Why We Don’t Have Peace

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/16

Send us a text Why We Don’t Have Peace “If you had walked in the way of God, you would be dwelling in peace for ever.” - Baruch 3:13 Those who live with and in: hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft and the like. I warn you… that those who live like this will not inherit (experience) the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21) The list above I quoted ...

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Who Does God Accept?

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/15

Send us a text Who Does God Accept ? "I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every people anyone who fears him and practices righteousness is acceptable to him.” From Acts 10:34-35 In the days following Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection, Peter and Jesus’s other close followers came to understand that God loves the world, everyone and everything. They came to understand that being accepted by God doesn’t require adherence to specific customs and traditions...

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Affirmed by God

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/14

Send us a text Affirmed by God “The stone that the builders rejected has become the very head of the corner,” - from 1 Peter 2:7 and others There are those who will call us foolish and naive. Some will mock our message of kindness and generosity, of love and grace. Many will reject this message and instead choose to bow down at the alters of wealth and power, the alters influence and prestige. Many in the world reject this message, but those who live their lives embracing it becom...

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Not My Will, But Yours

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/13

Send us a text “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me, yet not my will but yours be done." - Luke 22:42 In his most difficult hour, Jesus was open, honest and vulnerable in his prayer. We can be open and honest with God about our hopes and dreams, our aspirations and desires. We can be open and honest about our fears and our pain as well. Living in faith in part means trusting God enough to ask for what it is we really want. Some of us need to take this necessary first...

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The Lies We Tell Ourselves

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/12

Send us a text The Lies We Tell Ourselves “And he said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death!" Luke 22:33 Peter, like many of us, lied to himself about who he was and what he was ready to do. It’s easy to proclaim our faith when we believe that everything is going to work out in our favor. Peter said he was willing to follow Jesus to the cross until realized he might actually have to go to the cross. How ready are we to follow Jesus when it might ac...

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When Shouts Prevail

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/11

Send us a text When Shouts Prevail “But they kept urgently demanding with loud shouts that he should be crucified, and their voices prevailed.” Luke 23:23 Those who would control and manipulate us usually do so by trying control and manipulate our emotions. Their loud shouts whip up anger, whip up our resentment, whip up our fears and insecurities and drive us to actions that benefit themselves and no one else. We get caught up in their whirlwind, but as the Prophet El...

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You Don’t Have to Go Along with It

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/10

Send us a text “Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph who, though a member of the council, had not agreed to their plan and action… This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.”- from Luke 22:50-52 The folks on the council were driven by fear. They were afraid that if Jesus kept stirring up the people with his calls for righteousness and justice and if Jesus kept contrasting the Kingdom of God with the empire of Rome, there was going to be a revolution. If ...

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The World’s Most Famous Protest March

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/09

Send us a text The World’s Most Famous Protest March “Then they brought it to Jesus, and after throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it.”- Luke 19:35 During Jesus’s time, Israel was occupied and controlled by the Roman Empire. The so called Peace of Rome meant their being dominated militarily, exploited economically, and their culture and religion subverted and altered by Rome itself. Even the Jewish high priest served at the pleasure of Rome. Ahead of the major Jew...

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The Comfort of Friends

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/08

Send us a text The Comfort of Friends “He said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,” Luke 22:15 Jesus knew his purpose and was faithful to his mission. But that didn’t make it easy. The message that Jesus preached was a threat to the status quo. He knew it wouldn’t be long before the religious and political authorities came for him. His life was going to be taken soon. Jesus didn’t want to die. He was under intense pressure and stre...

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Jesus’s Prayer for Us

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/07

Send us a text Jesus’s Prayer for Us “but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail, and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers." - Luke 22:32 Being faithful doesn’t mean being perfect. Jesus knew his disciples were going to have a hard time with his crucifixion and everything surrounding it. He knew that they would be sifted like wheat. He even knew that under pressure Peter would deny even knowing him. Jesus didn’t expect his followers to be p...

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Follow Your Calling

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/06

Send us a text Follow Your Calling “I press on toward the goal, toward the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.” - Philippians 3:14 There’s a general calling which applies to all humanity and there specific calls which apply to us uniquely as individuals and communities. We have all been called to walk with and in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. We have all been called make sure the hungry have somet...

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Do You See It?

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/05

Send us a text Do You See It? “I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?” - Isaiah 43:19 Living in faith is not about living in delusion or denial. A person who lives in faith is fully aware of the obstacles and challenges. Faith isn’t blind. Faith is fully aware. Faith sees potential and possibilities where others see none. Faith never stops searching, never stops seeking, never stops looking. A person who lives by faith is determin...

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A Way Out of No Way

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/04

Send us a text “ I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” From Isaiah 43:19 What does it mean to live by faith? It means in part that no matter how difficult things are and no matter how long they’ve been difficult, we hold tenaciously to the belief that somehow, someway God will make a way out of no way. Then we live our lives accordingly. There’s almost no person more miserable or more wretched than the one who has given up hope. A person accepts the unaccept...

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Balancing Self Care with Self Sacrifice

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/03

Send us a text Balancing Self Sacrifice with Self Care “You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me." John 12:8 The command to love our neighbors as ourselves presumes a healthy center. It presumes a level of self care and self nurture. It is truth that many of us need to learn empathy and compassion. Many of us need immediately to start practicing generosity even if we ourselves do not yet have everything we want. Nevertheless, there are quite a...

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Remember the Dream

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/04/02

Send us a text Remember the Dream “When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.” Psalm 126:1 The people of Israel and the writer of this psalm were living in difficult times. Hope was in short supply. When things get hard, it’s tempting for us to give up and give in, to surrender to our circumstances. When things are bad and they have been bad for a while, it’s tempting to accept the bad as our new reality. In the first part of this Psalm the ...

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