60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon

Send us Fan Mail 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 tem...

Send us Fan Mail Putting the Past Behind Us “Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, i press on toward the goal, toward the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.” How do we put our guilt and shame behind us? How do we overcome our heartbreak and disappointment? How are we liberated from the burdens of the past?  That’s a question Paul struggled with for a...

Send us Fan Mail “I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,” - Philippians 3:10 Paul says plainly what Jesus said poetically: “For whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.” (Matthew 16:25) The power of the resurrection is real and available t...

Send us Fan Mail “But when he came to his senses…” - from the Prodigal Son Luke 15:17 The gospel writer doesn’t give us any background for the story of the prodigal son. We don’t know what led up to his decision to leave home.  Perhaps he was simply young and rebellious and tired of living under his father’s rules as most of us have supported.  But maybe it was more complicated than that. Perhaps...

Send us Fan Mail Delivered from the Trouble We Made “You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with glad cries of deliverance.” - Psalm 32:7 We don’t think about having a hiding place when we are feeling safe and secure. We don’t think about having a hiding place when we are strong enough to handle what’s coming. A fair reading of Psalm 32 suggests that it was wr...

Send us Fan Mail “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” - Mother Teresa Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 88 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #prayer  #love#growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #discipleship  #lovequotes #positivemindset #personal...

Send us Fan Mail Living in the New Creation  “So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being!” - 2 Corinthians 5:17 This section of Corinthians declares that in Christ we have been reconciled to God. We next are called to be reconciled to each other. In fact we all have been called to be ambassadors and ministers of reconci...

Send us Fan Mail God Embraces Us “But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him” - Luke 15:20 In the story of the prodigal, Jesus clarifies God’s relationship with humanity. In the story, the child decides to leave the home, the father doesn’t kick him out. The great distance and separation between parent and ch...

Send us Fan Mail Love Instinctually  “We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey…” - Marcus Aurelius  Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 85 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #prayer  #love#growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopmen...

Send us Fan Mail Nothing is Impossible with God “For nothing will be impossible with God." - Luke 1:37 The Stories of Easter and Christmas invite us to open our hearts and minds to believe in possibilities that we have never imagined, for ourselves, our families, our communities, and our world.  Miracles happen. Doors open. Resources appear. A way emerges from no way. But to travel this way,...

Send us Fan Mail Break the Wheels of Injustice  “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer  Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 82 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #prayer  #love#growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #inspirationalquotes...

Send us Fan Mail Have the Courage to Say Yes  “Then Mary said, "Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word." - Luke 1:38 God works through us, young and old, male and female, rich and poor. God does the extraordinary through ordinary people, even through a peasant girl in an occupied country in the backwater of the Roman Empire.  But God works through th...

Send us Fan Mail Spread Love Everywhere You Go  “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” - Mother Teresa Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 84 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #prayer  #love#growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #perso...

Send us Fan Mail Don’t Give Up “Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren.” - Luke 1:38 I want to speak to everyone right now who has given up or is the verge of giving up. Easter is coming. The power of God lives within us and among us. The same power that gave Christ victory over military domination, economic exploitation, re...

Send us Fan Mail It’s Me. It’s Me “Let the wicked forsake their way and the unrighteous their thoughts;” Isaiah 55:7 There’s an expression that ‘everyone is the hero of their own story’. That means that most of us are far more critical of others than we are of ourselves.  We believe we have good reasons for what we do. So we rationalize. At the same time we fail to extend others that same grace an...

Send us Fan Mail Becoming Witnesses of Hope “See, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.” - Isaiah 55:4 “ Where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Proverbs 29:18)  I truly believe and the scriptures suggest that people stay stuck where they are because they can’t see better. They can’t hope better. As a result they don’t do better.  There’s a need for pe...

Send us Fan Mail Learning New Ways “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD.” - Isaiah 55:8 As a person thinks, so they are. (Proverbs 23:7). The world as we experience it now, individually and collectively is the result of our best thinking and planning. If we want different results, we need to think different thoughts and do different things.  Many of our...

Send us Fan Mail Made for Goodness  “We are each made for goodness, love, and compassion.” - Desmond Tutu Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 80 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #prayer  #love#growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #compasion  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Chase the Things That Matter “Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your earnings for that which does not satisfy?” - from Isaiah 55:2 Most of us do need to earn money for food, clothing, shelter, and life’s other necessities. That’s reality for most of us. Nevertheless, many of us need to ask ourselves how much is enough.  There’s always a bigger house to bu...

Send us Fan Mail Love Listens “The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer  Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 79 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love#growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopmen...

Send us Fan Mail Be People of Mercy and Grace “He replied, 'Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it.” - Luke 13:8 Jesus told the story of a vineyard owner who was frustrated at a fig tree that had produced no fruit in three years. The vineyard owner was ready to cut the tree down.  The vineyard worker pleaded with the owner for more time for the tree an...

Send us Fan Mail Love Friend and Stranger  “Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers…” Hebrews 13:1-2 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 74 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love#growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #compasio...

Send us Fan Mail Stay Self Aware and Humble  “So if you think you are standing, watch out that you do not fall.” - 1 Corinthians 10:12 As we begin to live our faith, we grow. We develop new habits of thought and speech. We gain wisdom, insight, understanding, and self discipline.  What we don’t want to gain is arrogance. Even as we celebrate how far we’ve come, we always want to be aware of how fa...

Send us Fan Mail God’s Unshakable Love “Though the mountains be shaken, and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken…” - Isaiah 54:10 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 73 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love#growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #...

Send us Fan Mail Human Suffering Isn’t God’s Punishment  “He asked them, "Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.” - Luke 13:2-3 Most of us would like to think that everyone gets what they deserve. We’d like to think bad things happen to bad people, a...