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Show The World Something Different

“And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever trusts in him may experience eternal life.” - John 3:14-15

It’s not about the confessions we recite, or the speeches we make. Empty words have no power. It’s about lifting up a different example, a model of how to live, and be, and do. It’s about showing the world something different.

The world runs on fear. The world suggests that if we can get enough money, power and status, we don’t have to be afraid anymore. We can hold heads up high anywhere we go. The world suggests that anything we can get away with to get what we want is ok, and we can never have too much.

We lift an alternative way of living, being, and doing. We trust our footsteps to the way of love. We see everyone as our neighbor and do unto them, not as they do, but as we would like them to do to us. We practice kindness, generosity, and forgiveness. We live our lives centered in faith, hope, and love.

Anyone who trusts their footsteps to this alternative way will experience a peace and a wellbeing that the world can’t take away.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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How to Change Our Toxic Environments

“And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live." - Numbers 21:8

The people of Israel had become tired of the seemingly endless journey from Egypt to their promise land. Many of them said they would have preferred slavery than to where they were. They even complained that they were tired of the food that God was providing them to eat.

Their lack of gratitude, their impatience, their negative attitudes and toxic thinking created a toxic environment for them live in. The environment became so toxic that poisonous snakes were everywhere. Many of them died from the snake bites.

What was the remedy? They set up a pole with one of the poisonous snakes on it. Everyone who looked at it was able to live. In other words their healing process required them to recognize all the ways that they themselves were toxic and negative. Everyone who was willing to look could be healed.

In other words we change our toxic environments by first looking in the mirror and changing the toxic person we see staring back at us.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Life Giving Foolishness

“For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” - 1 Corinthians 1:18

The so called wisdom of the world has us killing ourselves and each other. The message of the cross in Paul’s thinking is one in which we crucify our old patterns of thought and behavior. This makes space for the Spirit to resurrect and recreate us. We are freed from the slavery of old ways of life. (Romans 6:6)

In particular, (based on Galatians 5) we stop clout chasing (idolatry and sorcery) where we look for money, power, and status to deliver us.

We stop trying to find our solace in sex, drugs, and alcohol. These can distract and comfort for a while but never bring us peace.

We give up our anger, hatred, and jealousy. These can fuel our fires for a while but they only end up consuming us and never bring us joy.

Practicing radical love, compassion, and forgiveness is foolish to those who are being killed by conventional thinking and living. But we know that in these we find the life giving power of God.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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When We Became Discouraged

“But the people became discouraged on the way.” - Numbers 21:4

The people of Israel had been liberated from slavery in Egypt, but they had not yet made it to their promise land. They lost faith in the process. They were tired and discouraged. In their discouragement they made foolish and self destructive decisions.

Personal development is a process, and life is a journey. None of us gets to where we want to be as quickly as we’d like. Like the people of Israel, most of us have never been to the place we want to go. So it’s easy to become discouraged and make bad decisions.

Becoming financially stable and independent is a journey for most of us. Many of us have signed up for bad loans and gotten caught up in scams, not out of desperation, but impatience. Some have taken ethical shortcuts that costs them everything.

How many of us have become so discouraged while looking for a relationship that we have compromised ourselves in ways we shouldn’t, with people we shouldn’t?

How many of us get so discouraged with the time and effort it takes to get to a healthy weight that we stop eating healthy, and fall back into stress eating, and comfort eating because it is convenient and it feels good in the moment?

When we get tired, when we get impatient, when we get discouraged, we need to remind ourselves that life is a journey. Set backs and disappointments are part of the process. We must encourage ourselves to keep moving forward.

When we are still a long way from where we want to be, sometimes we just need to focus on making the next right step.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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It Was Worth It

“So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions.” -Luke 14:33

32 years ago I moved to Chicago to attend seminary. It wasn’t something I particularly wanted to do. But in my heart I knew I needed to.

I wanted to answer my calling and live my purpose. But I also wanted to live my life. So, I went to school full time, and worked full time.

Got myself promoted. Got a real nice place too. But working 50-60 hours a week, and going to school full time, and the four hour round trip commute on school days…

As the new school year approached, I knew I had to make a choice. I gave my notice and quit my job. I gave up my lease. I called Good Will and gave away everything that couldn’t fit in a car.

No job. No money. No place of my own. A grown man in a little dorm room. I had to give it all up to get to the place I was supposed to be, to become who I was supposed to be, to find the work I was supposed to do.

I gave up everything I thought was important to me at the time. It was worth it.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Finding Right When Everything Around You Is Wrong

Philemon is the personal letter that Apostle Paul wrote while in prison to Philemon a wealthy slave holding convert on behalf of Onesimus, an escaped enslaved convert who was about to be sent back to Philemon.

What does one do, when everything around you is wrong? That’s the question early Christians in the Roman Empire faced then. It’s the question every person of good will faces now.

The letter contains no words of condemnation for Onesimus. If a person finds themselves in an abusive or exploitative situation, they should try to escape it, whatever it is.

Unfortunately the fact that Onesimus met Paul in prison meant that he was there with him. He was about to be sent back to a situation that was likely to be far worse than it was before.

Paul was already in prison for disturbing the social order. He had neither the power nor the authority to command a different outcome. However, Paul had invested a great deal of time and care into Philemon. So he had the personal relationship the moral authority to speak to Philemon.

Philemon, was on his own journey. He was a relatively new convert to the way of Jesus. He had become a major financial sponsor of the movement- a movement that could in no way benefit him financially, politically, or socially.

He was a good man who benefited greatly from an unjust system. He started writing checks- he was already giving serious money.

But what now? The challenge he faced was figuring out how to take the next right step when everything around him was wrong.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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Learning To Be Effective In Broken Systems

“I pray that the partnership of your faith may become effective as you comprehend all the good that we share in Christ.” - Philemon 1:6

Philemon is a personal letter that the Apostle Paul while in prison, wrote to one of his wealthy slave holding converts, on behalf of a runaway enslaved convert.

How do we follow Jesus in broken world, when we are confronted with nothing but bad options?

Paul was already in prison in large part because his teachings were disrupted of the social order. Declaring that there’s neither Jew nor Greek, Slave nor Free, and there’s no longer male and female- as the early Christians did during their baptisms, carries real social implications.

But what does one do when your new converts aren’t fully ready to embrace this new reality? What does one do when the present status quo is doing everything in its power to perpetuate itself?

Paul answers the moment not with anger or outrage, but with patience, kindness, boldness, and gentleness. He reminds the slave holding brother that the enslaved person is also his brother and encourages, just short of demanding, that he do the right thing towards this brother.

Individual and social transformation take time, sometimes generations. We don’t accept the status quo. But we do have to learn how to be effective. Being effective change agents requires us to be patient, gentle, kind, strategic and bold.

I’m Horace McMillon. This is 60 Seconds of Hope. Peace be with you.

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In response to the flooding in Pakistan I’m donating 100% of the royalties for the first 1000 copies sold of my new book:

How to Pray: Devotions for Prayer, Spiritual Discernment, and Living a Life of Faith

by Horace McMillon

In just three minutes a day, for six weeks, you can transform your spiritual life.

This 42-day devotional invites you to begin each day with spiritual reflection and a prayer of gratitude — grounding your spirit in thankfulness and opening your heart to God’s presence. Each day offers a brief reflection and a prayer of gratitude to shape your outlook and strengthen your faith. Each week closes with a prayer that helps you reflect on your faithful response — how to live out God’s call in your daily life.

Whether you are new to prayer or seeking to go deeper, How to Pray provides a clear and encouraging path toward spiritual discernment, faithful living, and a renewed relationship with God.

Take six weeks. Take three minutes a day. Let gratitude guide you, and let your faithful response shape the life God is calling you to live.

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