Category: Manager’s Memo

Manager’s Memo 10-9-20

This one is pretty simple. Let’s start with THANK YOU! What an amazing week! Thank you for your outpouring of support during Sharathon. More than 350 donors checking in and more than $130,000 at this point, well over our goal of $118,000.  Thank you to all who called in leadership gifts to keep us challenged and hopping. Thank you to everyone who gave sacrificially and to the young ones in the aud ... Read More

Manager’s Memo 9-17-20

The past few months have been interesting, to say the least. Nothing seems normal anymore. Essential workers and cancel culture have dominated news feeds and social media sites. Political debate rages everywhere as the election season nears its conclusion. Yet if you’ve listened to 88.3 The Journey for even a little while, I pray you have noticed how God uses the music and messages of hope on The ... Read More

Manager’s Memo 8-24-20

Today’s Troubles I have to confess that after days of listening to myself say not to grow weary; I haven’t been very successful. It’s the first week of school and back to teaching, putting out administrative and technology fires, and going to committee meetings. There are three weeks left in what I pray is my next to last quarter of doctoral work, which still means hundreds of pages of writi ... Read More

Manager’s Memo 8-10-20

Last week, I spent several days in faculty meetings getting ready for a new school year. We have six hundred plus students returning to campus, beginning next week with wide-eyed first-year students. Several of my colleagues asked how I was feeling. When I felt like it was an honest request for information, we talked about our concerns with bringing everyone back together, how we keep everyone saf ... Read More

Manager’s Memo 7-20-20

My baby sister came to visit recently. She was on Southwest, so in and out of Love Field. That meant I got to drive the lovely stretch of highway between Cleburne and Dallas, known as the Highway 67 / I-35E construction war zone. I’m glad I don’t drive through it every day. We left the house three hours early for her 2:40 departure. It was a good thing, but we made her flight on time. Going home w ... Read More

Manager’s Memo 6-27-20

Our lives are a result of the choices we make every day. Our culture, the society we live in, is the result of the choices we make together. Our government, from school boards to Washington, DC, is the result of those collective choices. There are many influences on the daily choices we make. As a follower of the Carpenter, I am influenced by commands like “Thou shalt have no other gods befo ... Read More

Manager’s Memo 6-10-20

I’ve come to believe one of the primary tools in the Devil’s toolbox is division. He used it in heaven and pulled away one-third of the angels. He used it in the Garden of Eden and divided us from God. He used it in the first family, and a brother died at the hands of his brother. He used it to divide Isaac and Ishmail, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers. He’s still using it to great effect w ... Read More

Manager’s Memo 6-1-20

Forgive me, but this a long one. There is no easy way to say all that is on my heart. I have been wrestling with this for several days now. And Paul’s counsel in Ephesians is why.  “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” I learned long ago that words have power; power ... Read More

Manager’s Memo 5-15-20

When we moved to Texas ten years ago, my oldest son was finishing up college. He was living in an apartment off campus with friends. He came home the weekend before the moving van arrived to carry our stuff east to pack up his bedroom and tell us what he wanted to do with his stuff. When it came time to leave Sunday, he was slow getting his truck packed. He kept disappearing as I carried stuff out ... Read More