Tag Archives: Joel Osteen

Salon reports: A plumbing repair at televangelist Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Houston reportedly led to the discovery of “bags and bags” of cash and checks in a bathroom wall. The discovery came several years after someone stole $600,000 in cash and checks from a safe at Osteen’s Lakewood Church, according to a report from KRPC Channel 2. The station suggested …

The Daily Beast reports: A Houston megachurch, whose celebrity pastor is reportedly worth $50 million, has repaid the federal government $4.4 million in pandemic loans after going viral for the outrageous handout. Lakewood Church, which is tax-exempt like most religious institutions, took $4.4 million in taxpayer-funded Paycheck Protection Program loans at the height of the COVID pandemic last year—all while …

The Houston Chronicle reports: Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church is among the large local congregations that received multi-million dollar loans as part of the federal government’s COVID-19 stimulus package. Lakewood received a $4.4 million loan through the Paycheck Protection Program, a part of the federal CARES Act that provided loans to pay employee wages or for other basic operational costs such …

The Christian Post reports: The “Joel Osteen Inspiration Cube,” an electronic device that plays daily affirmation, inspirations, and brief sermon clips from the senior pastor of the 40,000-member Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, has hit the market. According to the “Joel Osteen Inspiration Cube” website, the cube is $39.99 and includes 365 daily inspirations, 52 sermons, and 31 affirmations that …

The Christian Post reports: Pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church announced Thursday that all worship services are being canceled to help contain the coronavirus. After Houston, Texas, Mayor Sylvester Turner issued a health emergency on Wednesday for the city of Houston and Harris County following the area’s first possible non-travel related coronavirus case, the church decided to take safety precautions to …

“They’re attempting to take prayer out of schools. When you remove the fear and love of God, you create the fear and love of everything else. Reinstate the fear and love of God, and eliminate the fear and love of everything else. “That slight difference of wording, I got that from Joel [Osteen]. There’s a lot of people in the …

People Magazine reports: “I know that God’s been calling me for a long time and the devil’s been distracting me for a long time,” he said while standing with the pastor in Joel Osteen’s megachurch. “Because every time I stand up, I feel that I’m standing up and drawing a line in the sand and saying, ‘I’m here in service …

The Houston Chronicle reports: If you see “Joel Osteen” asking for money in exchange for prayers on Facebook, it’s not the real Joel Osteen. Lakewood Church has been warning people about a Facebook account posing as “Joel Osteen Ministries,” which has been asking people for donations up to $50 to activate prayer request accounts. The message has been circulating on …

The Huffington Post reports: Pastor Joel Osteen, who has been under fire for his Houston megachurch’s slow response to helping survivors of Hurricane Harvey, vowed on Sunday that God would “pay back” victims for what they lost. “We’re not going to understand everything that happens, but having a ‘poor old me’ mentality or ‘look what I lost’ or ‘why did …

ABC News reports: Pastor Joel Osteen said today that his Lakewood Church has been taking people in “from the very beginning” of Harvey as he pushed back against criticism that the church did not initially welcome evacuees. “We were here for people. We were a shelter,” Osteen said today on “Good Morning America.” “We were taking people as soon as …

But don’t worry, they are insured. From the church: We were heartbroken to learn today that funds were stolen from the church over the weekend. This includes cash, checks and envelopes containing written credit card information, and it is limited only to those funds contributed in the church services on Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9, 2014. If you …

After Monday’s tweet about about rubbing one out, some folks on Facebook think Osteen “is just trolling us now.” Source. (Via JMG reader Ian) UPDATE: I meant to ask if anybody can find the original source on this and prove it’s not a photoshop.

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“I believe the Scripture says that being gay is a sin. But, you know, every time I say that, Chris, I get people say, ‘Well, you are a gay hater and you’re a gay basher.’ I’m not. I don’t dislike anybody. Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world. But my faith is based on …

“Somebody that maybe had this certain difficulty now, maybe in five years they’re not if we will love them. You know, I think one of the messages I speak on sometimes is, you know, we can love people back into wholeness. But sometimes we want to beat them down — you got this addiction and you shouldn’t have that, or …

More bigotry from the smiling zillionaire “prosperity gospel” scam artist, who says that being gay is not “God’s best way” to be a human.

Behar: “You know it’s NOT a choice, Pastor.” Osteen: “We don’t have a sign on our church saying, ‘No Gays, No Drunkards, No People On Drugs’…but there are scripture that we just can’t change.”

Soft-spoken mega-preacher Joel Osteen allows that gay people can be good people, but when it comes to marriage, he’d prefer “we shoot for God’s best.”