60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon

Send us Fan Mail We’re Going to Have a Story to Tell  “I shall not die, but I shall live and recount the deeds of the LORD.” - Psalm 118:17 Gratitude is the ability and willingness to look back with thankfulness on the roads we’ve traveled, the obstacles we’ve overcome, and to appreciate everyone and everything that ever helped us along the way.  Faith is the ability and willingness’s to look forw...

Send us Fan Mail God Isn’t 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 God isn’t angry with us. Some times it feels that way when we are hurting, when we are afraid, when we feel like we are stuck. It may feel like we’ve been forsaken, but the Psalmist says that even if we make our be...

Send us Fan Mail Rejoice in the Moment  “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:19 It’s a good thing to praise and thank God for all the good things we’ve experienced in the past, all the roads we’ve traveled, all victories we’ve won. We must never forget these.  It’s a good thing to hope...

Send us Fan Mail God Doesn’t Make Us… “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." - John 20:23 God doesn’t make us. God doesn’t make us love anyone. God doesn’t make us care. God doesn’t make us share who we are or what we have with anyone. God doesn’t make us turn around when we are going the wrong way. God doesn’t make us forgi...

Send us Fan Mail Remember Who Sent You “Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." - John 20:21 What does it mean to live in faith? It means to believe that ours lives have meaning and purpose.  It means believing that we have been sent to be a blessing, to contribute our gifts.  We all have different gifts. Using our gifts looks like an endl...

Send us Fan Mail The First Gift of the Spirit “Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." John 20:21-23 In the Gospel of John, Jesus replace...

Send us Fan Mail “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? ...

Send us Fan Mail 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 actio...

Send us Fan Mail “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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 w...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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. ...

Send us Fan Mail “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 trustin...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 themselve...

Send us Fan Mail “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 contra...

Send us Fan Mail 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 its...

Send us Fan Mail 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 g...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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, gentl...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail “ 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 mi...

Send us Fan Mail 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...