by Steve Norman | Oct 25, 2025 | Blog
Forged In 2025, Forged has seen tremendous growth as a ministry and in the young men we serve. This year, we are serving in five area middle schools, where we spend time in discipleship and faith formation with students every week. We help them encounter Christ...
by Steve Norman | Sep 19, 2025 | Blog
I’ve found myself encouraged by the recent canonizations of St. Pier Giorgio and St. Carlo. I work with middle school and high school boys, and I am hopeful the newly minted saints will bear witness to the adventures of holiness. Both young men, Frassati and Acutis,...
by Steve Norman | Jul 27, 2025 | Blog
This article has been condensed from Steve Norman’s recent interview on The Choices We Face, where he discusses his faith journey and Forged, an outreach of Renewal Ministries that ministers to middle school and high school boys, young men, and dads. You can view the...
by Steve Norman | Jul 18, 2025 | Blog
“God chooses the weak and the small. If God chooses you, it’s not a compliment.” A professor of mine recently made the above statement. At first, my ego hurt; I believe I’ve been called to various things in my life, and I don’t like to think of myself as weak and...
by Steve Norman | May 16, 2025 | Blog
The middle school boys in our discipleship programs recently examined the narrative of Lazarus being raised from the dead. The more we dove into the story, the more I noticed Mary of Bethany’s amazing witness to Christian discipleship. Steeped in grief, Mary falls at...