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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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1:30

Recognizing The Voice Of God: If It’s Not Love, It’s...

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/23

Send us a text Recognizing The Voice Of God: If It’s Not Love, It’s Not God A fellow TikTok’er in response to a recent post, asked how can we be sure that we are hearing God’s voice and not our own desires. How do we make sure we aren’t being self delusional? This is not only a great question. It is perhaps THE question when it comes to spiritual discernment. Here are a few thoughts: The voice of God in our lives usually challenges us to get better before it ever addresses our neighbors...

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Repairers Of The Breach

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/22

Send us a text 60 Seconds of Hope: Repairers Of The Breach “Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in.” - Isaiah 58:12 The primary metaphor here is that of a massive city with huge security walls. The walls are broken and have huge gaps or breaches that allow all the city’s enemies to come and terrorize the citizens at will. We live in a time ...

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If We Want To See A Brighter World

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/21

Send us a text If We Want To See A Brighter World… “If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday.”- Isaiah 58:10 Things hadn’t just gotten bad in those section of Isaiah, they’d been bad for generations. Nevertheless, there was still a divinely inspired vision of a renewed and rebuilt brighter world that was possible for the people to create. This new world is built upon a...

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A Prayer For Refuge And Deliverance

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/20

Send us a text A Prayer For Refuge And Deliverance: (Psalm 71:1-6) None of us are exempt from challenges or difficulties. In those times let us let us join the ancient psalmist in praying: “In you, O LORD, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me. Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the...

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Time To Stop Criticizing And Start Helping

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/19

Send us a text Time To Stop Criticizing And Start Helping “If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil…” - Isaiah 58:9 In this section of Isaiah, the prophet describes how the world can be rebuilt. Too many people are content to point the finger and assign the blame to someone else. Too many people content to only talk about how bad things are. We can’t be among those people. If we want to rebuild the world, we mu...

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Don’t Doubt Yourself

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/18

Send us a text 60 Seconds of Hope: Don’t Doubt Yourself “But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a boy,' for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you.” - Jeremiah 1:7 If we have any self awareness, it’s easy to be filled with doubt and uncertainty. Jeremiah would go on to be remembered as one of the major prophets of the Bible. He didn’t start that way. In order to become who he became, he had to remember three things. God w...

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How To Distinguish The Voice Of God

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/17

Send us a text How To Distinguish The Voice Of God “Is not my word like fire, says the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?” -Jeremiah 23:29 In this section of Jeremiah, the people were being led astray by false prophecy. In other words they were being told what they wanted to hear instead of what they needed to hear. The solution proposed to this isn’t to silence or even argue with them or their words. In fact it was just the opposite. “Let the prophet who has a ...

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Faith Is Having A Dream That Is Worth The Sacrifice

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/16

Send us a text Faith Is Having A Dream That’s Worth The Sacrifice “… For the sake of the joy that was set before him, (he) endured the cross, disregarding its shame…” -from Hebrews 12:2 What makes a person of faith? A person of faith and people of faith have a vision or dream for the world that is so important to them, so compelling, so beautiful, so inspiring, so powerful that they are willing to pour out their lives in service of it. Jesus knew that the path he was on woul...

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A New Me, A New You, A New Us, A New World

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/15

Send us a text A New Me, A New You, A New Us, A New World “…Let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of faith…” - from Hebrews 12:1-2 Before the term Christian took over, participants in the early Jesus movement were frequently referred to as people of the way. Jesus was and is our trailblazer and innovator that inspires us to follow a pathway that leads to our rebirth into a new world where we live to...

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What Weight Do We Need To Drop?

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/14

Send us a text 60 Seconds of Hope: What Weight Do We Need To Drop? “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us.” - Hebrews 12:1 The people who were listed among the faithful in the previous chapter were not perfect people who had led perfect lives. For some of them it was just the opposite, including Rahab. She was once a pr...

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When Family Can’t Come First

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/13

Send us a text When Family Can’t Come First “From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; they will be divided: father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law." - Luke 12:52-53 Many of us have been taught blood is thicker than water and that family must always come first. We’ve been taught like from the words of...

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All Peace Ain’t Good Peace

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/12

Send us a text All Peace Ain’t Good Peace “Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!” - Luke 12:51 The Roman Empire celebrated itself for bringing “peace” to the world. But its Pax Romana was built through military domination and sustained by brutal violence and its threat. Bow to the emperor or face total destruction. It mattered little how many innocent and vulnerable people were hurt as long as they accomplished their objectives.&nb...

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Let Us Burn With Holy Fire

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/11

Send us a text 60 Seconds of Hope: Let Us Burn With Holy Fire “I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already ablaze!” - Luke 12:49 Elie Wiesel once said, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference… The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” We are called to live with a holy fire. We are called to burn with a passion for justice and righteous. The holy fires of compassion burning w...

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What Are Our Convictions? What Is Our Faith?

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/10

Send us a text 60 Seconds of Hope: What Are Our Convictions? What Is Our Faith? “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” - Hebrews 11:1 In whom or what do we place our trust? What are the beliefs and principles upon which we base our life? This is the true content of our faith. These are our convictions. Some of us mistakenly assure ourselves that money, power, and status will keep us safe and bring us wellbeing and deliverance.&nb...

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It’s OK Not To Know

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/09

Send us a text 60 Seconds of Hope: It’s OK To Not Know “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance, and he set out, not knowing where he was going.” - Hebrews 11:8 I had no desire to go into ministry or become a pastor. My father and both my grandfathers were ministers and pastors. I knew what it looked like. I had no desire for it. As an undergraduate, sitting in the office of career development and placement t...

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The Difference Between The Faithful And The Unfaithful

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/08

Send us a text The Difference Between The Faithful And The Unfaithful “All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them.” - from Hebrews 11:13 Many before me have referred to this section of Hebrews as the Faith Hall of Fame. It references many folks throughout the Hebrew Scriptures who remembered as people of great faith. What is the difference between the faithful and unfaithful? The faithful people were not wit...

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When God Serves Us

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/07

Send us a text 60 Seconds of Hope: When God Serves Us Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them.- Luke 12:37 In the ancient world, a common metaphor used to describe the relationship between God and humanity was that of master and slaves. By the time the gospels were written, that understanding was completely transformed. In what scholars believe...

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Stay Ready

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/06

Send us a text 60 Seconds of Hope: Stay Ready “Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit;” - Luke 12:35 There’s an expression that many of you are familiar with, “If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.” Jesus’s quote from the Gospel of Luke may have been the first time this expression was used. In chapter 10, Jesus spoke on how we come to experience eternal life by loving God, ourselves and everyone else by sharing that love in very real and tangible ways with all our...

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What Do We Value?

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/05

Send us a text 60 Seconds of Hope: What Do We Value? “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” -Luke 12:34 What do we value? What’s important to us? Where is our heart. It’s easy to say we care about someone or something, but do we really? How do we know if we are being sincere or if we’re just going through the motions, putting on a show because we think we’re supposed to? According to the Gospel of Luke, Jesus says to look at what we treasure. In other w...

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God Wants To See Us Flourish

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/08/04

Send us a text 60 Seconds of Hope: God Wants To See Us Flourish “Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” - Luke 12:32 In the previous chapter, Jesus gives us a model prayer which includes our praying, “May your kingdom come.” The Kingdom of God in the gospels represents a state of individual and collective wellbeing. We have peace within us and peace among us. In other words we are to desire and work for a world in whic...

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