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| 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.) |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Title: | Rising to the Call of Holiness: Holiness and Home Education |
| Type: | General Session, Workshop |
| Topic: | Visionary, Spiritual |
| Audience: | Parents, Youth |
| Description: | How does holiness relate to life? We’ve heard that God is holy, that we’re to be holy, and that we are to treat God as holy. Holiness is a concept that is to be applied to all of our callings in life. It’s the key to understanding relationships within the family. Learn how to lead your children to live a life characterized by holiness. |
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| 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! |
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| 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? |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Title: | A Pastor's View of the Homeschool Movement |
| Type: | Workshop |
| Topic: | Encouragement, Visionary, How is God using the Home School Movement in America? |
| Audience: | Pastors, Parents |
| Description: | How is God using the home school movement in America? How should the church respond to homeschoolers and homeschoolers to the traditional church? For some pastors and church leaders, homeschoolers provide a challenge for which they are not equipped or educated. Norm encourages both pastors and lay people by helping them see what God is doing in their churches through homeschoolers and giving them vision for encouraging them. |
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| Title: | Lessons from the Titanic |
| Type: | General Session, Workshop |
| Topic: | Encouragement, Motivational, The Father's role |
| Audience: | Parents |
| Description: | There are many lessons which can be learned from the disastrous sinking of the H.M.S. Titanic which may be applied to parents as captains of their own "ship"--the family. What are the "icebergs" which might sink your ship? How can a family avoid the dangers when navigating through the perilous ice flows of life? |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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