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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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We All Have Our Issues

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/12/12

Send us a text We All Have Our Issues “Brothers and sisters, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged…” - from James 5:9 It’s long past time that we need to stop talking about people behind their backs. It’s time to stop complaining about them. It’s time to stop praising ourselves in comparison to them. It’s time to acknowledge that we all have our own issues. Phased more positively, we all have areas where we have the opportunity to learn, grown, an...

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What Should Be Seen And Heard In Us?

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/12/11

Send us a text What Should Be Seen And Heard In Us? “Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with a skin disease are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them.”- Matthew 11:4-5 Actions say more than words. What we practice is more powerful than what we preach. What is it that Jesus wants to be seen and heard in us? The blind receive their sight. We become...

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Patience Isn’t Passive

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/12/10

Send us a text Patience Isn’t Passive “The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.” - from James 5:7 Very few worthwhile things happen effortlessly or instantly. They take time, planning, effort, and patience to see them through. Patience isn’t passive. Patience is faith in action. Patience allows the farmer to do the work of tiling the soil, planting the seeds, and cultivating the crops, know...

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Do Not Be Afraid

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/12/09

Send us a text Do Not Be Afraid “Say to those who are of a fearful heart, "Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God.” - from Isaiah 35:4 Anytime a person tells us to not be afraid, we usually have very good reason to be afraid. And there are so many things to fear. Some of us fear for ourselves and our families, that we will not have enough money to keep a roof over our heads, food on the table and clothes on our back. We fear that we or someone we love will get caug...

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Our Lives Shall Blossom

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/12/08

Send us a text Our Lives Shall Blossom “The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus” - Isaiah 35:1 Oh things are hard, but we are not without hope. The struggle has gone on for a long time, but it won’t go on forever. The prophetic words of hope and encouragement, spoken by Isaiah to the beleaguered community in exile, were not empty. They sustained the people until they were one day proven true. These words co...

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None Of Us Are Chaff

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/12/07

Send us a text None Of Us Are Chaff “His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” - Matthew 3:12 When speaking of God’s unfailing love, I’m often asked about God’s wrath. Sometimes a verse such as the one we just read will be cited as a purported example that God’s love has its limits. This question comes from the faulty premise that some of us wheat an...

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The Baptism Of Fire And Spirit

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/12/06

Send us a text The Baptism Of Fire And Spirit “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” - from Matthew 3:11 The baptism of fire and spirit is not a judgement or punishment, but instead refines us into our best selves. The baptism of fire and spirit warms our hearts and sustains our lives during our cold winters of hopelessness and despair. The baptism of fire and spirit burns away divisions of race, nationality, ethnicity, social class, economic status and gende...

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It’s Not About Our Religion (Advent 11)

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/12/05

Send us a text It’s Not About Our Religion (Advent 11) “…Do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our ancestor.” - from Matthew 3:9 One of the great mistakes or fallacies we can fall into is to presume that our religions make us superior to others and/or pleasing to God. The quality of the tree is not determined by the name of the orchard it’s planted in. The quality of the tree is determined by the fruit the it produces. A true rooted and grounded in...

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Remember Who You Are (Advent 10)

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/12/04

Send us a text Remember Who You Are (Advent 10) “Therefore, bear fruit worthy of repentance.” - Matthew 3:8 Some of us grew up with the exhortation to “remember who you are” or “remember where you came from”. Some of our families demanded that we bring honor to the family by being of high character and walking in the world with dignity and respect. As I read this verse, I hear the gospel writer challenging the audience to remember who they are, remember who they have been ca...

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Acknowledge, Learn, And Grow (Advent 9)

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/12/03

Send us a text Acknowledge, Learn, And Grow (Advent 9) “And they were baptized by him in the River Jordan, confessing their sins.” - Matthew 3:6 Confessing one’s faults, mistakes, and shortcomings isn’t about blame and shame. It’s not about making oneself feel guilty. It’s certainly not about pointing out flaws in anyone other than ourselves. Baptism represents a person’s desire, commitment, and determination to make a new start, putting the old ways behind. Confession is a tool f...

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How Do We Prepare The Way?

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/12/02

Send us a text How Do We Prepare The Way? (Advent 8) “This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.'" - Matthew 3:3 quoting Isaiah After we repent, after we change or focus and direction, we have a role to play. We have been called to prepare the way of The Lord. We make it easier for folks to find and follow their pathways. How do we do this? First, we roo...

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Turn Around And Look For It

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/12/01

Send us a text Turn Around And Look For It (Advent 7) “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near." - Matthew 3:2 The word repent means to turn around and change direction. As we change our direction, we change our focus. Instead of being focused on our frustrations and failures, instead of being focused the pitfalls and problems, we become focused on the possibilities and opportunities. We are not far away from the kingdom of heaven. We are not far away from being ab...

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Hope Is Not A Passive Activity

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/11/30

Send us a text Hope Is Not A Passive Activity “O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD!” - Isaiah 2:5 The hope that we have been called to live in is not a passive one. We are called to carry God’s love into the world. We are called to be ambassadors of hope and ministers of reconciliation. We are called to bring good news to the poor, to set free the oppressed, to bind up the broken hearted, to be relentless in our pursuit of peace and wellbeing, of goo...

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Hope Sunday, Advent 2025: Three Things To Trust (full...

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/11/30

Send us a text Based on Isaiah 2:1-5 1. Trust in the power of the vision of God’s shalom (of God’s love and care) to draw humanity to it. No need to coerce through violence, economic coercion or social coercion. Lifting the vision will draw humanity to it. 2. Trust in the vision enough to put in the work to live in it. We have to learn a new way to live in the world, to think and speak, to act and react, to hope and desire. It’s requires that we make the effort. Trust God enough to put in...

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Look For The Holy Moments (Advent 5)

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/11/29

Send us a text Look For Holy Moments “Keep awake, therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.” - Matthew 24:42 Since the world, the entire cosmos lives and moves and has its being in God, everyone and everything is imbibed with the sacred. This means that even our most ordinary tasks and mundane activities, even our casual conversations and passing interactions can be opportunities for us to experience transcendence, can be opportunities for us to experience Emmanuel...

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What Would Someone Notice In Us? (Advent 4)

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/11/28

Send us a text What Would Someone Notice In Us? (Advent 4) “As for the things that you have learned and received and heard and noticed in me, do them, and the God of peace will be with you.” -Philippians 4:9 If someone were to observe us for an extended period of time, what would they notice about us? Would they see gentle people, people whose gentleness comes from their confidence in God’s care and protection? Would they see people who even in life’s most anxious moments practiced gr...

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Give Thanks For Three Spiritual Truths

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/11/27

Send us a text Give Thanks For Three Spiritual Truths “Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth. Serve the LORD with gladness; come into his presence with singing. Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him; bless his name. For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations” ...

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Practicing Humility And Curiosity (Advent 3)

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/11/26

Send us a text Practicing Humility And Curiosity (Advent 3) “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths."- from Isaiah 2:3 All of us have a sense of right and wrong, good and bad. These moral sensibilities are a good starting point when discerning our pathways. However, they should be starting points. We often we assume the things we think and believe are complete and corre...

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We Don’t Need To Push Our Religion On Anyone (Advent 2)

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/11/25

Send us a text We Don’t Need To Push Our Religion On Anyone. (Advent 2) “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”-John 12:32 A lot of us have been going about this the wrong way. We don’t need to push our religion on anyone. We don’t need to force anyone to kneel at the alters we’ve built. We instead use all our efforts on lifting up the example of God’s love through the words we speak, and the actions we take. As disciples we are students w...

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Advent 1: Let Our Vision Be As Big As God’s Is For Us

60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon ·

2025/11/24

Send us a text Let Our Faith Be As Big As God’s Vision For Us “He shall judge between the nations and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war any more.” - Isaiah 2:4 The second chapter of Isaiah describes one of, if not the most beautiful divinely inspired vision the world has ever been given. Envision a world where all disputes betw...

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