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*Joel Osteen, senior pastor of the 40,000-member Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, spoke with The Christian Post on Friday at Marlins Park baseball stadium in Miami, Fla. – one day before his scheduled America’s Night of Hope event – to talk about his life in ministry, how to respond when bad things happen to good [...]
*More than 400 teens from across the country volunteered this past week to help D.C.’s underserved communities as part of the inaugural effort of Generation Hope Project, an outreach of Joel Osteen Ministries, to leave the host city of America’s Night of Hope in better shape after the event is done, reports the Christian Post. [...]
*Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston is under siege after a former volunteer filed a $10 million lawsuit for negligence, claiming molestation accusations stemming from 2010 ruined his reputation. In Feb. 2010, a fellow volunteer accused Daniel Alvaro Guzman, now 26, of sexually molesting an 8-year-old autistic boy during children’s ministry at Lakewood Church, says [...]
*The second episode of Oprah Winfrey’s new primetime series “Oprah’s Next Chapter” on Sunday drew 1.6 million total viewers, which puts it as the most-watched telecast on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The episode featured an interview with Pastor Joel Osteen at his home in Houston. According to Deadline.com, the ratings were up 45% from the [...]
*Larger than life preacher, Rev. Joel Osteen recently signed a contract to star in his very own reality television show. You may ask why on earth a preacher would need a reality show, especially with his church services televised. Osteen and his wife, Victoria, will be working with Mark Burnett, executive producer of CBS’s “Survivor,” [...]
*Details and the premiere date of Oprah Winfrey’s anticipated original primetime series “Oprah’s Next Chapter” have been announced – and she is literally praying, walking over hot coals and sleeping with chef Paula Deen to get people to watch. The debut episode will feature Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler from his home in New Hampshire as a [...]
*Last week on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” Joel Osteen made a very daring statement that may have an effect on his ministry in the long run. When asked if homosexuality is a sin, the mega-church preacher revealed his conservative perspective. “Yes, I’ve always believed, Piers, the scripture shows that it’s a sin.” He quickly backed [...]
*National talk show host and Essence Magazine’s # 1 best selling author Reuben Armstrong has released his most controversial book to date entitled “Crooks and Homos in the Pulpit.” Crooks and Homos in the Pulpit focuses on Mega-pastors such as Bishop T.D. Jakes, Joel Osteen and Bishop Eddie Long, admitted homosexual pastor, Ted Haggard, as [...]
*For the first time ever, two of the most dynamic mega church preachers came together in a joint effort in Texas at Lakewood Church, and the result were tremendous. Pastor Joel Osteen asked Bishop T.D. Jakes of Dallas to preach. So why is that such a big deal and how did it happen? KTRK-TV talked [...]
*Dr. Conrad Murray, the man charged in Michael Jackson’s death, visited Joel Osteen’s mega-church in Houston on Sunday for private prayer between morning services. According to sources at Lakewood Church, Murray met with Joel and his wife Victoria for about 10 minutes in between the 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. sermons. Joel’s brother Paul was also [...]
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