Few things are as precious to a student as Summer Vacation. For a quarter of the year, the world is yours. There is no strict schedule, no homework, no looming responsibility except for milking the last drop of fun from every minute. There’s comfort in knowing that nothing is expected of you; that you can…

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Text by Neil Cole, founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates & CMAResources. It used to be so easy to determine who was successful and who was not. Bigger was assumed to be better. I suggest that those days are quickly evaporating, and that standard never was an accurate metric of true success in the Kingdom…

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One of the first stories I ever captured for 6 Stones involved Foundation Baptist Church. In the dead heat of Texas summer, only a few weeks into my career here, I joined the resilient little church body in an empty field behind their new (old) building. At the time, the congregation was small. Fledgeling, even.…

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Something happened to love, maybe recently and maybe decades ago. We re-wrote it, changed its rules. Made it our own and pretended that doing so had no consequences. As long as we love the way we want to and others do the same, what’s the harm, right? But then something else happens. We forget to…

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