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Norm Wakefield Presentations
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Equipped to Love: Revival in America:Building a Godly Legacy for Generations Home-based Discipleship:God's Blueprint for the Family In Search of Happiness:World-Proofing Your Children The Foundational Lesson for Learning:Having Ears to Hear The Power of Hope in Discipling Children Leading With Vision:The Key to Family Unity Heart Maintenance:Keeping Your Children's Hearts Turned Toward You It's A Matter of Identity:Leading Your Children to Know Who They Are Preparing for Christ-Centered Relationships Jurisdictional Leadership:Finding Your Place in God's Plan The Calling Out of Sons:What's a Father to Do? The Calling Out of Sons:What's a Mother to Do With Teenage Sons? A Father and a Daughter:Affirming Godly Womanhood Scouts in the Homeschool Wagon Train Seven Qualities of a Family Leader Unshakable Faith:Applying What You Believe to Life Rising to the Call:Understanding God's Callings in Our Lives Rising to the Call of Holiness:Holiness and Home Education Becoming a Relational Husband and Father Rethink the Way You Live:Who is the Teacher in Your Home? Sports and Home Education:A Balanced Perspective Parents With Special Needs Children:Life with Amanda A Pastor's View of the Homeschool Movement Lessons from the Titanic Preparing Teens for Life Called to be One:Establishing a Marriage for God's Glory An Eternal Perspective How to Be God's Forerunners for the Next Generation Anchored in Christ - A Solid Rock in the Homeschooling Storms (Keynote or workshop) The Power of Humility in Teaching and Parenting Teens The Power of the Gospel in Teaching and Parenting Teens The Power of Hope in Teaching and Parenting Children
Equipped to Love:
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.
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Revival in America:Building a Godly Legacy for Generations
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.
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Home-based Discipleship:God's Blueprint for the Family
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.
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In Search of Happiness:World-Proofing Your Children
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.
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The Foundational Lesson for Learning:Having Ears to Hear
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.
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The Power of Hope in Discipling Children
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.
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Leading With Vision:The Key to Family Unity
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.
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Heart Maintenance:Keeping Your Children's Hearts Turned Toward You
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.
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It's A Matter of Identity:Leading Your Children to Know Who They Are
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.
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Preparing for Christ-Centered Relationships
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.
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Jurisdictional Leadership:Finding Your Place in God's Plan
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.
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The Calling Out of Sons:What's a Father to Do?
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.
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The Calling Out of Sons:What's a Mother to Do With Teenage Sons?
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!
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A Father and a Daughter:Affirming Godly Womanhood
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.
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Scouts in the Homeschool Wagon Train
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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Seven Qualities of a Family Leader
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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Unshakable Faith:Applying What You Believe to Life
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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Rising to the Call:Understanding God's Callings in Our Lives
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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Rising to the Call of Holiness:Holiness and Home Education
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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Becoming a Relational Husband and Father
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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Rethink the Way You Live:Who is the Teacher in Your Home?
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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Sports and Home Education:A Balanced Perspective
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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Parents With Special Needs Children:Life with Amanda
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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A Pastor's View of the Homeschool Movement
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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Lessons from the Titanic
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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Preparing Teens for Life
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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Called to be One:Establishing a Marriage for God's Glory
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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An Eternal Perspective
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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How to Be God's Forerunners for the Next Generation
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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Anchored in Christ - A Solid Rock in the Homeschooling Storms (Keynote or workshop)
If the gospel preached at home isn't
powerful and relevant to life, then
the next generation will reject it. Home
education provides relational
and situational storms in which parents
demonstrate their faith. Learn how
to be anchored in Christ so you can
withstand whatever comes your way and
lead your children to do the same.
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The Power of Humility in Teaching and Parenting Teens
Teaching and parenting teens can be
challenging and wearisome. It is possible
to navigate this season of your
homeschooling career with peace,
confidence and power. Norm presents
seven aspects of humility from the book
of Philippians that Paul draws from the
life of Christ. You'll discover the powerful
impact humility can make on your on
your children and in your own life.
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The Power of the Gospel in Teaching and Parenting Teens
Are you aware of walls between you
and your children or teenagers? Often
walls develop as a result of the teaching,
discipline, and training process in
homeschooling. How do you keep those
walls from developing in your own heart
and in the heart of your children? Learn
how to gospel in a powerful way in
relationships with your children.
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The Power of Hope in Teaching and Parenting Children
One of the challenges of
homeschooling is keeping your children
motivated and excited about the
educational and spiritual training
process. The key to the heart of your
child is your ability to give hope to what
you are doing. Whoever gives your child
the most hope will have his or her heart.
As Norm leads you to experience the
hope in homeschooling, you'll gain vision
in how to instill hope in your children
which will fill them with excitement and
expectation in their homeschooling
experience.
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