Messages that turn the hearts of men to God, their wives, and their children.





The calling of God in Norm's life has given him a heart for men and their families. His calling as a child of God has birthed an emphasis on the gospel and relationship with Jesus Christ. It forms the basis for wisdom in all aspects of life and is the strength of Elijah Ministries. As a husband, Norm longs to see marriages that glorify God. His calling as a father of four, has given him a heart for family. When God called Norm into the pastoral ministry, God led him to disciple and encourage men. Leading people into the presence of God has come from his calling as a worship leader. The desire of his heart is to see God glorified in His people as they apply God's Word to their lives. Below you will find short descriptions of many different messages Norm gives at conferences, retreats, and churches around the country. Please contact us for a complete list of messages.To see some available retreat/conferences by Norm, click here.

Message Descriptions

Title: Equipped to Love: Building a Legacy of God's Love Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Transforming relationships, Marriage Audience: All ages Description: Everyone knows they ought to love others, but not everyone knows how. The greatest hindrance to building a legacy of God?s love is the spirit of idolatry. Idolatry is the world?s counterfeit to God?s kind of love. In this message, Norm gives practical insight into one of the most challenging goals of families--loving relationships. Marriages and parent/child relationships may be healed and strengthened as a result of these truths.   Resource Center

Title: Anchored in Christ: A Solid Rock in the Storms of Homeschooling Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Motivational Audience: Parents, All ages Description: Do you ever feel like you're weathering a category 5 hurricane as you attempt to educate your children? Learn how to get anchored in Christ so you can withstand whatever comes your way and lead your children to do the same.   Resource Center

Title: Reality Check: It's Not About You Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Motivational, Marriage, Discipleship of Children Audience: All Ages Description: There's nothing more destructive to relationship with God and others than selfishness. When a person professing to be a Christian makes life about himself, the gospel is made empty, others are alienated and offended, and most of all, his relationship with God suffers. Norm's messages from Paul's letter to the Philippians will serve as a reality check as you are encouraged and coached to live in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, living a life that is all about Him.   Resource Center

Title: An Eternal Perspective Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Motivational Encouragement for Home Education and Parenting Audience: Parents, Adults Description: How easy it is to become discouraged when we have our minds set on the daily grind and struggles of life. But God has ordained that those who maintain an eternal perspective in life will receive grace and strength for the tasks He calls them to do. Your heart will be encouraged as you hear what God's Word has to say about keeping an eternal perspective in life.   Resource Center

Title: Home-based Discipleship: God's Blueprint for the Family Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Motivational, Spiritual, Visionary Audience: Parents Description: Do you want to build a godly legacy that will last generations? This message presents an overview of God's plan for preparing the next generation for the Lord. The Spirit of Elijah, the Holy Spirit, turns the hearts of men to God, their wives, and their children so that the next generation may be prepared to walk with God.   Resource Center

Title: The Calling Out of Sons: What's a Father to Do? Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Motivational, Visionary Audience: Men and boys 12+ (primary), Wives/mothers Description: For generations, fathers have done the best they could with what they had. But what many didn't have was vision for what to do with their sons. Hopefully this session will have a generational effect as fathers learn how to help their sons transition from boyhood to manhood. This message also explains why many in this generation struggle in marriage and parenting.   Resource Center

Title: In Search of Happiness: World-Proofing Your Children Type: Workshop Topic: Spiritual Preparation for Living Life Audience: Parents, Youth Description: Most everyone feels a need to perform, cope with life's problems, and be happy. If parents understand how to lead their children to God's power for these things, their children wouldn't be as vulnerable and susceptible to the ways and vices offered by the world. This equips parents to lead their children past the destructive pitfalls of the world into a faith in God. constant battle is taking place for our time: our work, church, ministry, home school, friends, family, and our relationship with God all demand our attention.   Resource Center

Title: The Foundational Lesson for Learning: Having Ears to Hear Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Educational, Practical Audience: All ages Description: Did you know it's possible to hear but not hear and see but not see? Jesus told his disciples that if they didn't learn this lesson, they couldn't understand all of his teaching. If parents know how to train their children how to listen, they will have given them the foundation for a life of learning.   Resource Center

Title: The Power of Hope in Discipling Children Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Motivational, Spiritual Audience: Parents Description: Who has your children's hearts? Whoever they think offers them the most hope. That's the power of hope. So often Christian parents teach their children right from wrong, but fail to introduce the important dynamic of hope into their lives. Frequently the result is teenagers that stray from the teaching and lifestyle of their parents as they adopt the norms and values of our culture. Learn how to fill your family with hope as you disciple your children.   Resource Center

Title: Leading With Vision: The Key to Family Unity Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Practical training for leading the family Audience: Parents Description: Without vision each family member is unrestrained. But when they are led with God's vision, there is order, security, and peace. This message equips parents to resolve conflict and skillfully lead their family. A peaceful home atmosphere with order and vision provides an optimal environment for learning.   Resource Center

Title: Heart Maintenance: Keeping Your Children's Hearts Turned Toward You Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Turning around a hard hearted child Audience: Parents Description: One of the dangers in parenting is to overlook the importance of shepherding the heart of your child. What does that mean? Why is the child's heart so important? How does a parent care for a child's heart? This message, filled with personal experiences and practical suggestions, will answer these questions and more.   Resource Center

Title: It's A Matter of Identity: Leading Your Children to Know Who They Are Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Identity principles, Understanding why a child does what he does Audience: All ages Description: When a child doesn't know who is, who he belongs to, or where his power source lies, he is left searching for someone to imitate. Insights from the Identity Principles helps parents understand God's plan for preparing the next generation for life. You'll learn how to "seal" your child's identity and secure their heart.   Resource Center

Title: Preparing for Christ-Centered Relationships Type: Workshop Topic: Courtship, Preparing teens for marriage Audience: Parents, Youth Description: Is it dating? Courtship? Or betrothal? Is there a formula for finding a partner for life? In this workshop, you'll discover practical insights from God's Word about young people building relationships that glorify Jesus Christ.   Resource Center

Title: Jurisdictional Leadership: Finding Your Place in God's Plan Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Order in the family, home, church, and society, Leadership skill training Audience: All ages Description: Gain an overall understanding and practical application of the concept of jurisdictions by looking at how God is running the entire universe. This lesson is a companion lesson to the message on Leading With Vision. You'll learn how to trouble-shoot any problem by applying jurisdictional principles.   Resource Center

Title: The Calling Out of Sons: What's a Mother to Do With Teenage Sons? Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Motivational, Visionary Audience: Mothers and boys 12+ (primary), Fathers/husbands Description: Around the age of 12, a voice speaks within the mind of a boy, "Ain't no woman going to tell me what to do?" How does a mother cope with the transition of her little boy becoming a man? What is her role? What can she do to not alienate her son as she gives instruction? Answers to these and more!   Resource Center

Title: A Father and a Daughter: Affirming Godly Womanhood Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Motivational, Practical suggestions for relationships Audience: Fathers (primary), parents Description: Godly womanhood is under attack! This workshop gives practical ways a father can affirm his daughter in her womanhood and prepare her for being a godly wife and mother.   Resource Center

Title: Scouts in the Homeschool Wagon Train Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Motivational, Spiritual Audience: Parents, Support group leaders Description: Like the scouts who led the wagon trains west, husband/fathers lead the way for their family. Knowing the destination, charting the course, and guiding to food and water supplies was the responsibility of the scout. Do you know what you want your child to be when he becomes an adult? Do you know how to get there? Do you know where the spiritual water holes are? Come and find out! (This message can also be adapted to the needs of support group leaders as a leadership address.)   Resource Center

Title: Seven Qualities of a Family Leader Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Spiritual Audience: Men Description: The Apostle Paul had the heart of a father for the members of the churches he planted. How did he face his weaknesses and opponents to his leadership? Many of his weaknesses and problems are those to which most men can relate. The insights from Second Corinthians give men some practical encouragement in how to be leaders of their families.   Resource Center

Title: Unshakable Faith: Applying What You Believe to Life Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Practical living skills Audience: All ages Description: Do you ever feel like the storms of life are going to blow your faith and smash it upon the rocks of perilous circumstances and disappointments? How shakable is your faith? As the leader of your family, your faith in God sets the standard for the next generation. What is the basis for an unshakable faith? The message from the book of Hebrews reveals how to have an anchor for our souls.   Resource Center

Title: Rising to the Call: Understanding God's Callings in Our Lives Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Visionary, Spiritual Audience: Parents, Youth Description: What does it mean to have a "calling"? Most men think of their vocation as their "calling", but there are other callings in life that are more important. Faithfulness is each calling leads to preparation for the next calling in life. If fathers don't understand their callings and how to teach their children about their callings in life, the next generation won't be prepared for them. If we can define our callings, then we can rise to the call of God in our lives.   Resource Center

Title: Becoming a Relational Husband and Father Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Motivational Audience: Men Description: One of the greatest needs of wives and children is to have a husband or father who knows how to be relational. Norm explains what it means to be relational and then gives practical suggestions for how to improve. Your wife and children will love it!   Resource Center

Title: Rethink the Way You Live: Who is the Teacher in Your Home? Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Motivational, Spiritual Audience: All ages Description: Who teaches you and your children how to live life? Jesus came to call us to discipleship in the kingdom of the heavens. His challenge to his generation was: Rethink the way you live your life; the kingdom of heaven is very near and available. His challenge is still the same! What does this mean to you and your home education strategy?   Resource Center

Title: Sports and Home Education: A Balanced Perspective Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Encouragement Audience: Parents, Youth Description: Do you feel like a taxi driver on call 24/7 as you run your children from one sporting event to another? Is the sports schedule the driving force behind your weekly homeschooling schedule? Hear a balanced, biblical perspective of sports from an ex-college athlete, coach, and homeschooling father.   Resource Center

Title: Parents With Special Needs Children: Life with Amanda. Type: Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Spiritual Audience: Parents Description: Norm and Alma share lessons they have learned while educating Amanda, their 20 year-old daughter who has Down's Syndrome. They will share insights regarding how to face the challenges of working with a special needs child as well as resources that may be of encouragement and assistance.   Resource Center

Title: Preparing Teens for Life Type: Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Motivational, Vision for teen years Audience: Parents, Youth Description: This message presents the curriculum for young men and women found in the books of Titus and Proverbs. God knows what parents need to teach and train their teens in order for them to glorify God and be prepared for life.   Resource Center

Title: Called to be One: Establishing a Marriage for God's Glory Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Marriage, Spiritual Audience: Parents, Pre-marriage Description: The marriage relationship in the home provides the basis for teaching the next generation about marriages that glorify God. The calling of God to be the bride of Christ is an irrevocable call of God to oneness. So also the calling of God to marriage is an irrevocable calling to oneness because it is a picture of the gospel. If we're to have marriages that glorify God, then it is important that we understand the mystery of "the two shall be one." Passing this truth on in word and action may be one of the most important lessons we teach in home education.   Resource Center

Title: Revival in America: Building a Godly Legacy for Generations Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Motivational, Visionary Audience: Parents Description: America is in great need of a spiritual revival. How does the home education movement figure into a coming revival? In this message, Norm expresses God's heart and vision for revival and how God could use the homeschooling movement to transform families, churches, cities, states, and a nation. It is vital that parents see how God wants to use them to express His heart as they build a godly legacy for the next generation.   Resource Center

Title: How to Be God's Forerunners for the Next Generation Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Motivational Encouragement for Home Education and Parenting Audience: Parents, Adults Description: Like John the Baptist was the forerunner for Jesus Christ to the nation of Israel, parents are the forerunners for Jesus Christ to their children. Learn what the responsibilities are of a forerunner and how to prepare the way of the Lord in the hearts of your children.   Resource Center

Title: Are the Rivers Flowing? Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Motivational Encouragement for Home Education and Parenting Audience: Parents, Adults Description: Jesus promised that rivers of living water would flow from those who are thirsty. The apostle John commented that the rivers were a reference to the presence and power of the Holy Spirit's ministry in the life of a believer. Are the rivers flowing from your innermost being for the blessing of those closest to you?   Resource Center

Title: Are You in Christ? Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Motivational, Spiritual Audience: Parents, Teens Description: Identification with Christ is the foundation for living in God's fullness. The way we live our lives depends on how we think about ourselves in relationship with Jesus Christ. We'll be encouraged as we study four identity principles applied to our identity in Christ.   Resource Center

Title: Are You a True Worshipper? Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Spiritual Audience: Men Description: Everyone is a worshiper because we are all born empty. Empty people worship. However some worship that which is empty while true worshipers have an inner power which directs their hearts to the fullness of God. In this message, we'll contrast misdirected worship and redirected worship.   Resource Center

Title: Are You Thirsty? Type: Keynote, General Session, Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Practical living skills Audience: All ages Description: One of the biggest hindrances to personal and corporate revival is a contentment with busyness and things of this world. Jesus' promises of fullness were extended to people who knew they were in need of an inner power to glorify God on a daily basis. Are you thirsty? Let's come and drink!   Resource Center

Title: Are You Filled? Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Visionary, Spiritual Audience: Parents, Youth Description: The promise of the Father and the Son is the fullness of God through the Holy Spirit. What does it mean to be Spirit-filled? Apparently, a Spirit-filled man is so obvious that he stands out in a crowd. You'll be encouraged by the Scriptures of promise that you can experience God's fullness for His glory.   Resource Center

Title: Applying the Gospel to Relationships Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Visionary, Spiritual Audience: Parents, Youth Description: The apostle Paul apparently had some significant problems with some members of the Corinthian church. There had been a division and Paul makes an appeal for reconciliation in the first few chapters of his second epistle based on the gospel. Applying the gospel to relationships is the evidence that we have not received the grace of God in vain.   Resource Center

Title: Father's Lay the Foundation for Culture Type: General Session, Workshop Topic: Encouragement Audience: Parents, Youth Description: Generations of fathers have created the culture in which we live. But Christian fathers have the responsibility and privilege of laying the foundation for a Christ-centered culture in their homes and churches. Learn the importance and power of fathers to impact their homes for Christ.   Resource Center

Title: Creating a Culture with a Gospel Foundation Type: Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Spiritual Audience: Parents Description: Foundations are important, powerful, and are being created on a daily basis in your home. Do you know how to create a culture in your home that is based on the true gospel? If the foundations of the gospel are not clearly taught and applied, the next generation will not be anchored in Christ.   Resource Center

Title: A Must for Successful Marriages Type: Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Visionary Audience: Couples Description: In Ephesians 5, the apostle Paul gave two "musts" for husbands and wives who wish to be filled with the Spirit and glorify Christ in their marriage. You'll learn how to build each other up as you see the wisdom of God's imperatives for husbands and wives.   Resource Center

Title: Tearing Down the Walls Type: General Session Topic: Workshop Audience: Parents, Youth Description: When someone criticizes us or accentuates our weaknesses, it can be hard not to put up a wall of protection and close our hearts to them. This happens more often with the people closest to us. You'll learn what Paul called a "divine weapon" for the tearing down of walls.   Resource Center

Title: Battling the Beast of Self Type: General Session Topic: Workshop Audience: Encouragement Description: Parents, Youth   Resource Center

Title: How to Have Unfailing Love Type: Workshop Topic: Encouragement, Spiritual Audience: Parents, Men Description: Sometimes love fails. What kind of love fails? What kind of love is unfailing? How does one discern the difference? Norm teaches the Love Principle, The Course Test, and the Source Test from 1 John 4 which enables one to know and express God's unfailing love in relationships.   Resource Center