Son of Chuck Norris Shares Testimony

Dan Wooding : Aug 11, 2011
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"We were standing in that church and I meant it when I said in front of everybody—and also in front of God—that I was marrying my wife for life! I realized that I had been a party boy, and that and being married wasn't going to work. So at that point, there in the church, I said to myself, 'Mike get your act together. Be a man. Be a Godly man be a Godly husband.' So that's really when everything started to change for me in a drastic way." -Mike Norris

(Dallas, Texas)—Mike Norris (born 1963) is an American actor who has appeared in over two dozen films. He is the son of the more famous actor and martial arts champion Chuck Norris. He starred in the 1986 drama film Born American and the 1991 action film Delta Force 3: The Killing Game. He also wrote, directed and starred in the 2009 Christian film, Birdie & Bogey.

On May 23, 1992, Norris married his wife Valerie. They have 3 children. Norris and his wife own the 2nd Fiddle Entertainment movie studio. Through 2nd Fiddle Entertainment Norris has written, produced and directed the films Birdie & Bogey and Maggie's Passage. Norris and his studio are currently working on a new movie.

Having previous interviewed his father, I was delighted to be able to catch up with Mike Norris recently during a phone interview from his studios in Dallas, Texas, for my Front Page Radio show and began by asking him about his early life with his famous Dad and the time he directed him for eight seasons on Walker Texas Ranger, the famous TV series.
Mike began by explaining that he was not brought up in Hollywood.

"I was raised outside of Hollywood in the south bay area of Palos Verdes," he said. "I was born and raised there and even as my father's success kind of grew, in my teen-age years we stayed out of the Hollywood lifestyle. It wasn't really until I grew up and got on my own that I jumped into the Hollywood way of life but my parents did a great job of keeping me sheltered and grounded as a kid."

Was he a rebel in his early days?

"I was and let me tell you what's really sad, and possibly encouraging, is that I accepted Christ as a child and when you accept Christ you are in Christ. However, through my late teens to my early twenty years, I just got caught up in a really bad life style, running with bad people and doing bad things.

"But yet, in my mind, I kept asking myself why I was doing all these crazy things. Fortunately, I was able to get out from under the bondage of the drinking and all that stuff that happened in my early years and eventually was able to really dedicate myself to Christ and to the ministry.

"I've always wanted to create and little did I know that something that was in my heart some twenty-five years ago wouldn't actually come to fruition for fifteen years. So it's funny how you pray and pray and until it happens, you never know God's timing, but God's timing is perfect."

Mike said the turning point in his life was when he met his wife Valerie at the age of 21. He said that he had seen so much dysfunction in marriages, he had seen that he didn't want his to turn out like so many others in the movie business.

"We were standing in that church and I meant it when I said in front of everybody—and also in front of God—that I was marrying my wife for life! I realized that I had been a party boy, and that and being married wasn't going to work. So at that point, there in the church, I said to myself, 'Mike get your act together. Be a man. Be a Godly man be a Godly husband.'"

"So that's really when everything started to change for me in a drastic way."

Click on the link provided to read much more about Mike, his ministry, his take on Hollywood and the films he is involved in.