60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon

Send us Fan Mail “The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.” - Richard Allen Many of us would like to be a blessing, to have an impact, to make a positive difference. Many of us have gifts that we would like to share with the world. Being and giving our best usually requires overcoming our fears.  Are we afraid of being...

Send us Fan Mail Carry Love “My prayer for you is that you may grow in the likeness of Christ, being real carriers of God’s Love” - Mother Teresa  Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 47 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #persona...

Send us Fan Mail "The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit” - William J Seymour William J Seymour led the Azusa Street Revival which has been credited for the launch of the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement. He believed in the power of God pouring into the individual and flowing out into their lif...

Send us Fan Mail Love and Sympathy, Not Theology and Dogma “The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.” - Dwight L Moody Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 46 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positi...

Send us Fan Mail “We must cherish one another, watch over one another, comfort one another, and gain instruction that we may all sit down in heaven together.” - Lucy Smith Some of us have so spiritualized the concept of the Kingdom of God/ Kingdom of Heaven that it has lost all its earthly relevance for us living today.  The concept as Jesus describes it is deeply grounded in the here and now. At...

Send us Fan Mail “Belief in God is to love one’s fellow men.” - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 45 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #motivation Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Stop Making Excuses  “ Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses” - George Washington Carver Lack of exposure is a thing. Lack of opportunity is a thing. Lack of money is a thing. It’s hard to get from here to there. It’s particularly hard when you don’t know where there is.  There are reasons for where we find ourselves personally a...

Send us Fan Mail Love the Prisoner “Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them…” Hebrews 13:3 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 44 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #motivatio...

Send us Fan Mail What Do We Need to Face?  “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced,” James Baldwin  There’s a tendency many of us, if not most of us have when we feel overwhelmed or discouraged, when we have tried and failed or when we have seen very few people succeed.  That tendency is to shut down, to look away, to avoid even thinking about it....

Send us Fan Mail Show Us How to Love  “Those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.” - 1 John 4:21 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 43 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #motivation Suppor...

Send us Fan Mail “As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.” - Medgar Evers Evers served in World War II. We he came home, he completed his formal education and went on to become the first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi. There wasn’t a day his life wasn’t in dan...

Send us Fan Mail God’s Love is Deeper Yet!  “There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.” - Corrie Ten Boom Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 42 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #motivat...

Send us Fan Mail Reject Your Own Negative Self Stereotypes “We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.” - Shirley Chisholm  Most of us would like to think we are immune to the stereotypes that larger society heap on us and other folk. But that is probably just not true.  Back in the 1930s, Kenneth and Mamie Clark devised a test where bl...

Send us Fan Mail “I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world” - Mother Teresa Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 41 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #motiva...

Send us Fan Mail “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired” - Fannie Lou Hammer Civil rights activist, women’s rights activist, community organizer and co founder of the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party shows us the power of getting tired.  When we get tired enough, we will stop accepting the unacceptable and face our fears. We decide that remaining how and where we are is the worst possibl...

Send us Fan Mail Choose Love Today  “Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. Today, I choose to give love.” - Louise Hay Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 40 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopmen...

Send us Fan Mail “If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs" - Mary McLeod Bethune  The moment in which we find ourselves is not particularly easy. Many of us looking at our individual circumstances, the news, and the world around us have good reason to believe...

Send us Fan Mail “So, we have known and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.” - 1 John 4:16 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 39 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #posi...

Send us Fan Mail “The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. What is redemptive is the faith that God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death, and hope out of despair.”  - James H. Cone The Caesars of this world claim that they have r...

Send us Fan Mail Be Patient, Kind, Humble, and Happy for Others  “Love is patient; love is kind: love is not envious or boastful or arrogant.” - 1 Corinthians 13:4 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 38 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positiv...

Send us Fan Mail Look for the Beauty  “Despite the wretched conditions humankind continuously faces, I believe in the beauty that is, and it is my scholarly and pastoral duty to pursue and find it.” - JoAnne Marie Terrell  What we seek is what we tend to find. What we focus on is what we tend to see. What we share is what we tend to experience. And what and how we think determines who we become. T...

Send us Fan Mail Let Love Show in Everything We Say and Do “If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives.” - Dwight L. Moody Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 37 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration  #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes...

Send us Fan Mail “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against"  - Malcolm X Blood may be thicker than water, but truth and justice must be thicker still.  It’s good to do for our family and friends, but not if doing so means wronging someone else’s family and friends.  It’s good to work for the wellbeing of our neighbors and communi...

Send us Fan Mail Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of God “And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be abl...

Send us Fan Mail "We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind.” - Marcus Garvey What do we need to free ourselves from? Has our lack of knowledge and understanding of how we arrived at our current situation caused us internalize lies about our lack of character?  Do we need to release the burden of th...