60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon

Send us Fan Mail “So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us…” from 2 Corinthians 5:20 Many Christians around the world participate in a season called Lent. The season lasts 40 days and concludes with the execution, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.  Lent begins with an earnest self examination. If it is true that God appeals to the world through the people who cl...

Send us Fan Mail “You are not called to convince anyone. You are simply called to be an open channel for the Spirit of God to flow through.” - Corrie ten Boom Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 62 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #pers...

Send us Fan Mail “No, Lord,” Peter declared. “I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure and unclean.” But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.”  - Acts 10:14-15 Peter and many of the earliest Christians didn’t believe Gentiles could really be Christians unless they were willing to live under customs, traditions, laws, and under...

Send us Fan Mail Grow Deeper Roots “The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.” - Henri Nouwen Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 61 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment...

Send us Fan Mail Give to Everyone: Stop Practicing Selective Compassion  “Give to everyone who ask of you, and if anyone takes away what is yours, do not ask for it back again” - Luke 6:30 This verse comes from the middle of some of Jesus’s most challenging teachings. Jesus is challenging us to think, act, and react differently. The sequence ends with Jesus’s declaration that we will experience ou...

Send us Fan Mail Liberation Prayer* Fill us with the joy they tried to steal. Fill us with the hope they tried to kill.  Informed by the history they tried to hide, may our feet You always guide.  May our love always defeat our hate. And in doing what’s right may we never hesitate.  Give us the patience and determination to persevere, regardless of victory looking far or near.  Give us ears to hea...

Send us Fan Mail What Kind of Progress Do We Want?  “American progress is described by problem, paradox, and irony… We must continue to ask what counts as American progress.” - Nichole Renee Phillips  There are some people who just want their seat at the table and a fair chance to play. There are others who want to flip the table over and demand we play a different game.  There are some who insist...

Send us Fan Mail ‘If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.’ – Muhammad Ali Some of us listening to this or reading this right now are not in a good place. We’ve made mistakes and poor choices. We’ve sometimes acted in bad faith with a lack of discipline, integrity, and courage.  Perhaps some of the good people in our lives have distanced themselves...

Send us Fan Mail  “I requested of my Lord and Master to give me a work, I did not care how mean it was, only to try and see how good I would do it.” - George Liele What if we were to pursue excellence every day? Whatever our gifts, whatever our calling, whatever our opportunities, imagine doing everything we can to make the most of them. How would our lives change? How would our communities change...

Send us Fan Mail “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.” - Oprah Winfrey  The writer of Proverbs said that as a person thinks in their heart, so they are. (Proverbs 23:7). Even if a selfish, greedy person were to put on a lavish banquet, the meal would not be worth eating. There is no joy the...

Send us Fan Mail Lift People Up “People have enough people pushing them down, pointing out their faults…” -Joel Osteen Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 55 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #motivation Sup...

Send us Fan Mail Now Is The Time  "Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done”  - W.E.B. Du Bois We are not called to be passive bystanders. Rather, Jesus called us to take up our cross and follow him. (Matthew 16:24). We are called to be active participants in building a better world.  There’s no convenient time to make...

Send us Fan Mail Love the Immigrant  “The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you: you shall love the alien as yourself…” Lev. 19:34 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 54 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemi...

Send us Fan Mail “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” - Booker T. Washington We do not start life with the same resources. Nor is everyone presented with the same opportunities along the way. We do not all have access to the same networks. Social capital isn’t easily quantified, but it counts far more than w...

Send us Fan Mail … if they learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally… - Nelson Mandela  Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 53 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #motivation #60...

Send us Fan Mail "In every human Breast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance”  - Phillis Wheatley Too frequently the world around us expects us to act as if everything is ok when it’s not ok… to suffer in silence… to make ourselves comfortable in dysfunction.  Even when we are not in an immediate position to ch...

Send us Fan Mail Rooted and Grounded in Love (I pray) that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are rooted and grounded in love - Eph 3:17 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 52 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset...

Send us Fan Mail “Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.” - Correta Scott King  Some of us are dismayed because we are fighting battles that we thought we’d already won, battles that we thought we’d never have to fight again.  History is not a straight line. Progress is not inevitable. Hard earned freedom is easily lost. Every g...

Send us Fan Mail God Supplies the Love “When God tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the commands, the love itself.” Corrie Ten Boom Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 51 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #persona...

Send us Fan Mail Dissent from Indifference  "We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust “ - Thurgood Marshall  Just as it was in Marshall’s time, the particular historical moment we find ourselves in demands us to constructively engage with the world around us. Nothing is going to change unless we change i...

Send us Fan Mail Faith is Love in Action  “True evangelical faith cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful…” Menno Simmons  Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 50 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes...

Send us Fan Mail “God's time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.” ― Harriet Tubman We are not meant to be kept marginalized and disadvantaged due to our race, class, nationality, gender or for any other reason.  The gospel or good news is meant to be universal. It’s meant to be good news for everyone, particularly for tho...

Send us Fan Mail “Bringing people together is what I call ‘ubuntu’ which means I am because we are.” Desmond Tutu Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 49 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #motivation Support...

Send us Fan Mail Stand the Fire “If the Lord comes and burns - as you say he will - I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.” - Sojourner Truth There were and are some who try to use religion as a tool of manipulation and control. Sojourner knew that true religion leads...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone Who Loves is Born of God “Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God” 1 John 4:7 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 48 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes...