60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon

Send us Fan Mail Let Us Learn How To Live “… Asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God's will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.” From Colossians 1:9-10 Good will and good intentions are necessary but in themselves are insufficient...

Send us Fan Mail A Prayer For A Different Kind of Power “May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, so that you may have all endurance and patience…”- Colossians 1:11 The type of power the writer of Colossians is describing here is very different from what we normally think of as power. The kingdoms of this world associate power with physical or military stren...

Send us Fan Mail By Loving Not Believing Correctly  “Teacher," he said, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" - Luke 10:25 Don’t misunderstand the question. The lawyer wasn’t asking Jesus how he could get into heaven after he died. He was asking how he could experience the deepest, fullest, most meaningful, and satisfying life.  The answer is simple, but it is not easy. The answ...

Send us Fan Mail Who Are The Gods? “God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment.” - Psalm 82:1 Who are these gods that the Lord God is meeting with in the divine council? Who is accountable for the state of things in this world?  Some of you reading and or listening to this may be shocked to learn that the answer is us. We are: “I say, "You are go...

Send us Fan Mail You Don’t Have To Be Dead To Experience Eternal Life “ …If you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.” - Galatians 6:8 The concept of eternal means without beginning or ending. The concept of eternal life in Galatians speaks less to the life we expect to experience in the future and more to the quality of life we can experience now.  This is the same concep...

Send us Fan Mail When We Feel Like God Is Angry With Us  “For his anger is but for a moment; his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning.” - Psalm 30:5 Sometimes life is so hard, so unfair, and so cruel that it feels like God is angry with us. It feels like we are being punished. It especially feels that way when we know we have done something wron...

Send us Fan Mail Hope, Humility, Time and Consistency  “So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan… his flesh was restored… and he was clean.” - 2 Kings 5:14 Healing and restoration seldom happen the way we expect them to. They seldom happen the way we want them to. And they always seem to take longer than we want them to. But the story of Naaman reminds us that healing and res...

Send us Fan Mail How To Be An Influencer  “Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman's wife.” - 2 Kings 5:2 In a society that valued power and position, she was a slave. In a place that valued tenure and experience, she was a youth. In a world that valued men and manhood, she was a girl.  Nevertheless, her words drove...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes It’s Not Hard. We Just Don’t Want to Do It  “Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, 'Wash, and be clean'?" - from 2 Kings 5:13 In most areas of his life, Naaman was highly successful. He was happily married. He was the top general in the army and answered o...

Send us Fan Mail Clothed with Gladness  “Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;” Psalm 30:11 There will be times in life where we are heartbroken and disappointed, when we feel the pain of loss, when we mourn and grieve. We don’t have to pretend that we are ok when we are not ok. It’s appropriate for us to give voice to our pa...

Send us Fan Mail How We Come to Take Pride in Ourselves  “All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor's work, will become a cause for pride.” - Galatians 6:4 How do we come to feel good about ourselves? How are we able to take pride in ourselves and in the way we live? These are important questions. Everyone should have a healthy sense of self worth.  For the Apos...

Send us Fan Mail How Do We Know If We Are Being Spirit Led? “If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.” - Galatians 5:25 How do we know if we are being spirit led? Self delusion and self deception are very real things. And many others will pretend to be what they’re not to get what they want.  The first step is that we have to examine the fruit. Is the action or behavior motiv...

Send us Fan Mail There’s More Than One Pie “You bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.” - from Galatians 5:15 In the previous verse, Paul reminds us that, “the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Paul’s metaphor of biting and eating one another is the contrast to loving one another. Do we se...

Send us Fan Mail From Love and Joy to Peace “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”  (from Galatians 5:22-23) I find the order of Paul’s list of attributes to be fairly significant. Everything starts with love, love for God, love for self, love for neighbor as one’s self. Rooted, grounded, and surrounded by the love...

Send us Fan Mail Be Sure to Read the Middle Part…  In Galatians 5, the Apostle Paul sets up a contrast or dichotomy to describe what our lives look like when they are Spirit led and when they are not. The non Spirit list begins with sexual immorality and ends with drunkenness. Many readers treat these two as the entirety of the list without seriously considering what’s in between: “idolatry, sorce...

Send us Fan Mail Set Your Face, and Keep Moving Forward  “When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.” -Luke 9:51 The fact that we may have a clear sense of mission, purpose, and calling doesn’t mean that it is going to be easy for us to fulfill them.  Jesus knew that fulfilling his purpose required a return to Jerusalem, a place where he was already wanted...

Send us Fan Mail Don’t Let Your Religion Stop You from Being Kind “But they did not receive him because his face was set toward Jerusalem.” - Luke 9:53 As Jesus prepared to non violently confront the powers of injustice and exploitation In Jerusalem, he passed through a small town in Samaria.  By this time Jesus was already a well known teacher and healer, known for his deeds of power, admired for...

Send us Fan Mail For Love, From Love, With Love  “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" - from Luke 9:54 Do you want us to call down fire and burn up our enemies, the wicked, and those who intend to do us wrong? This is the question James and John asked Jesus.  Jesus’s answer was no. Not, wait until later. Not, I’m gonna give them one more chance. No...

Send us Fan Mail Live An Ordinary Life Extraordinarily Well “Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you." - from Luke 8:39 Jesus had given the man who once lived with a legion of Demons his life back. The man was ready to give his life to Jesus by following Jesus full time on the road along with the rest of the twelve.  While we are all invited to join Jesus in following t...

Send us Fan Mail “I beg you, do not torment me," for Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man.” From Luke 8:28 -29 The man with the legion of demons initially wasn’t interested in Jesus’s help. He had gotten comfortable with them. They had given him the strength to break chains, and the freedom to lead an unconventional life. People didn’t respect him but they did fear hi...

Send us Fan Mail How to Get Unstuck  “ Then there came a voice to him that said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" - from 1 Kings 19:13 ‘ What are you doing here?’ - a question so important that Elijah was asked it twice in verses 9 and 13.  Elijah couldn’t stay where he was. The life he had known was gone never to return. He had to let go of his grief for the past and his fear of the f...

Send us Fan Mail Life Under the Reign of God “For dominion belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.” - Psalm 22:28 What would life look like if we truly decided to live together under the reign of God? The writer of Psalm 22 had some thoughts.  There would no longer be the fear of violence. Our souls “would be delivered from the sword.” We would live together in safety and peace. (Verse...

Send us Fan Mail Finding Safety in the Wilderness  “Then the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus.” - 1 Kings 19:15 Sometimes in life we find ourselves in places we never wanted to be, going to places we never wanted to go. Such was the case with Elijah. Elijah by trade and by calling was a prophet of Israel. His desire and passion was to serve God there.  Y...

Send us Fan Mail A Good Rest and A Good Meal  “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you." from 1 Kings 19:7 Elijah was really in trouble this time. So much so that he was ready to give up and die. Everything he had built had been torn down. His friends had been put to death and he was supposed to be next. He was physically tired and emotionally exhausted.  The story reminds us...

Send us Fan Mail Listen for the Silence  “Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake, and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire, and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.” - from 1 Kings 19:11-...