Easter has come and gone. It’s kinda like Christmas right, but with all that emotion that comes with meditating on death, substitutionary atonement, celebration of resurrection and victory over sin and death. And gifts and candy still find their way in. The season of Lent has passed by but ReLent has a couple weeks left. There’s something like a […]

Today is ‘Wear What You Want to be When You Grow Up’ day at my son’s school. He wore a shirt and some pants. Along with the usual under skivvies – don’t tell him I said that. Here’s the deal, he has a dozen ideas of the things he’d like to do as he grows […]

What’s your role as a parent in training up your kids to Resist bad choices, evil, self-worship? Do you have a gameplan, do you use language that fosters an awesome trust in God? Do you share a language of faith that engages evil and pain and suffering and struggle through the power of Christ? Several weeks […]

About one year after I married my awesome wife an opportunity arose for us to move to another state and engage in a different ministry. We had to decide whether or not to continue in the direction we were headed OR turn around and literally move in another direction and follow a different mission. Following Jesus […]

Lent is a season of worship between Christmas and when disciples of Jesus fast, repent and pray remembering the death and resurrection of their Savior. ReLent is a series of six family-orchestrated Blue-collar connects: Reflect / Repent / Resist / Reconcile / Refocus / Renew In all freedom some believers spend six weeks engaging Lent. Others spend six […]

Well, the day has arrived! Through the Bible: a year in the Word has found it’s way through the printing process, into our hands here at AbsoUnpro and available at our online SHOP. If you’re interested in finding out more about Through the Bible check out our product page for a brief description. Our desire here at Absolutely […]

The table between us is more than just a table. In the Temple was a table. On that table were twelve loaves of bread, one for each tribe. Each week twelve loaves were baked and set in the Holy Place on this table. On the Sabbath the priests would eat the bread as a symbol […]

There are a million resolutions to make for the new year. It’s the end of January and right about now most of us have already given up. If you’re a follower of Jesus there’s one in particular that tends to drift as the year moves and it is by far the most foundational. We’re excited […]

Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought, ‘this thing’s messed up’? I woke up the other morning nice and early and scribbled down the image to the right. Then I fell back asleep. I spent the next week or so trying to read my handwriting and make sense of it. It hit me […]

Time / Prep / Connect / REPEAT. I think it’s great that the first post of 2016 and the final post in the Blue-collar Disciplemaking series is about Repetition. Repeat. Do this and you will without a doubt a make a direct impact on the next generation under your roof. Let’s Recap: TIME: Carve out […]

You’d probably agree that making time not only for family meals and vacations and Sunday morning gatherings are important but that you need to make regular time for deeper connection and conversation with your kids. You probably also agree that if you personally spent a little more time in the Word and with the Word, […]

Christmas Eve is typically spent with family. My wife, kids and I join in the controlled and fun chaos that is her extended family, opening gifts, eating, talking, drinking coffee and eating and then drinking coffee and then I eat. Tonight, however, I had the honor of staying home with my daughter who is on […]

Can you share the Word if you’re not in the Word?  Or, can you repeat ‘Follow me as i follow Christ,’ sincerely? Last week we opened the challenge on TIME. Then we took a detour into defining Blue-collar Disciplemaking. This week in our 4-Part series we’re going to touch on Part 2 – PREP. Let’s […]

Blue-collar Disciplemaking = Training the next generation under our roof to follow the way of Jesus Christ as we model a Biblical / Relational / Memorable life rhythm. There, we’ve defined Blue-collar Disciplemaking. Now the main question for you and I is: What the hell are we going to do about it? If you’re like me you want to […]

When you build it from scratch it carves out a different space in your experience. When my wife thinks back on her kidhood she shares incredible memories about times playing with her only sister. Creating with giant boxes of scrap paper, random samples from her dads office, cardboard projects and pretend future weddings…normal stuff right? […]

Time is a wild animal. You can’t control it. It moves onward and doesn’t care whether you’re making the best of it or not. But we can understand it and even utilize it regardless. Q. Are you making time for the most important mission in your life? Discipling the next generation under your roof. I drive […]

To celebrate the launch of our shop and a few new resources (check us out) I wanna spend the final weeks of 2015 creating the space for 1 x 1-3 family disciplemaking. Blue-Collar Disciplemaking: Blue-collar Disciplemaking. For the parents and caregivers who wanna sit across the table from the next generation under their roof and train them […]

I had the honor and joy of co-teaching with my buddy Kyle at Rivertree Canal Fulton a couple of weeks ago. With the church we cracked open the role of being bearers of God’s Peace and engaging people of peace along the journey. Check it out below and follow along with:  Jeremiah 29:4-14 / Luke 10:1-11 Engage: Shalom […]

‘He now showed them the full extent of His love.’ John, the one recalling this experience with Jesus, then moves on to washing feet. Washing feet. I want to write that over and over until it sounds reasonable because there’s a divine connection between this ‘full extent of love’ and ‘foot-washing.’ Text / 13:1-8 / Symbolic […]

We’re getting close and the online shop is nearly open! The reLaunch of our Discipleship Journaling series is approaching. We’ve worked out many of the kinks and in the meantime we’ve created a few more Journals we hope will continue to foster Biblical / Relational / Memorable: Personal discipleship with Jesus. Family-centered disciplemaking. Oikos discipling relationships. […]

Someone asked me the other day what Absolutely Unprofessional is all about. They’ve been following the blog for a while and have even been tracking with the Discipleship Journaling series of resources we’re creating (available soon in our relaunch), but wondered how it all connected. Great question. I’m alright with a little confusion. When some things in […]

I was thinking the other night before sleep about the fulfilling nature of Christ when it comes to the Law. I was thinking about my family, my kids and their sinful nature mixed with their beauty and fun and joy. Do you remember when Jesus told His disciples and those listening in that He didn’t… Read More Abolished, Obsolete & Filled to the Brim

You know that feeling of waiting for friend or family to arrive in town? You know they’re coming to visit but you aren’t sure if they left last night or this morning. You know you’ll see them, that you have to be patient, but that your hope in their arrival will be quick and yet… Read More Word of Beard

That human life has value is accepted by everyone. Even mass murders and genocidal maniacs understand this, that’s why they take so many human lives, because life means something and they’re choosing to rob others of that very precious thing called life. I love how intimate the value of life is to Christ in history.… Read More Value, Humanity & A Little Girl Who Was Shot

So, years ago I was in a band. The best band ever truth be told. One night we saw or maybe even played alongside another band called Monday Collision or Mundane Collision, honestly I don’t really know but I’ve always liked that phrase, mundane collision, it stuck with me. Mundane collision. So I’ve been reading… Read More Mundane Collision