Thursday, December 24

Autographed Book - Your Best Life Now - Joel Osteen

I've heard that there is an autographed book of Joel Osteen on ebay. Caution is the best word of advice for this type of book on ebay. While it might be true, it might be difficult to authenticate his signature.

Monday, October 5

The Rise of the American Megachurch - Article on Joel Osteen, his wife and the church

Kris Axtman, Staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor wrote an interesting article about Joel Osteen, Victoria Osteen and the Lakewood Church.


http://www.christianoutfitters.org/newsarticle.php?an=019

Thursday, October 1

8 page report and background on Joel, his wife and the Lakewood Church

Interesting 8 page article from the Houston Press on Joel, Victoria and the Lakewood Church.

http://www.lakewood.cc/assets/pdf/houpress02-04-04.pdf

Thursday, August 27

Purchases & Thank You for buying Your Best Life Now

Just a personal thanks to those that have come to this site and purchased the book. Joel Osteen's , Your Best Life Now is a great motivational book and you'll enjoy it. Thanks

Monday, August 17

Some Differing Opinions about Joel Osteen and his book, Your Best Life Now

The post to this message board starts with:
Who is Joel Osteen... and why is he so dangerous to Bible believing Christians? Answer: Joel Osteen pastors the Lakewood Church in Houston Texas in place of his father, the late John Osteen. His ministry and teaching is clearly a self-esteem approach. The danger of his ministry is the admixture of ....

You can see more at the link below.


http://www.invitation.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=173

Monday, August 10

Great Post on message board for Joel Osteen

Check out this great link below for a comment about Joel Osteen on a Christian message board.

MannaCabana.com

Thursday, July 30

TV Interview with Arkansas Today - Joel Osteen

See the interview with Joel Osteen on Arkansas Today - click on the video link

http://www.kthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=13572

Friday, July 24

Literary Guild Review of Your Best Life Now

Good review from the Literary Guild web site.

Literary Guild web site

Wednesday, July 22

Joel Osteen - Lakewood Church live PC video feed

See Joel Osteen live on your PC using this feed. Only available when service is in progress.

http://www.lakewood.cc/a_v_library.htm

Monday, July 20

Joel Osteen Ratings

Interesting comments on Joel Osteen and some on his book, Your Best Life Now.

http://www.rateitall.com/i-29208-joel-osteen.aspx

Some positive like:
  • I have only seen Joel preach on TV a couple of times. He does give an uplifting sermon

  • Joel is absolutely one of the best today, he is sincere and honest, his father John raised his family well before going home. Joel did not want to be a pastor, he wanted to remain behind the scenes, he is a very shy individual but, some of his dieing father John's last words pleading with Joel were to take his place preaching at Lakewood


  • Some not so postive:
  • Joel Osteen is the Dr. Phil of evangelists. His vapid, common sense doctrine is neither scriptual nor salvation based. This near Calvinist doctrine
  • Thursday, July 16

    TV Broadcasts for Joel Osteen

    Here's the link to check out the TV broadcasts in your area for Joel Osteen.

    http://www.joelosteen.com/site/PageServer?pagename=BroadcastSchedule

    Sunday, July 12

    Listen to Cindy Cruse-Ratcliff (Music Director) Cover the Earth

    Cindy adds a great voice and powerful element to Joel's Sunday messages. Her vibrancy, enthusiasm and joy for seeing comes across loud and clear. Check out some of her music on Amazon.com or hear some clips of "Cover the Earth" at Worshipmusic.com.

    Sunday, July 5

    Joel Osteen's Bio

    After continuing to find out more about Joel, he continues to amaze me. Here are the basics of his bio. Joel Osteen is the senior pastor of the Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. An unbelievable 30,000 members listen to Joel each week and millions more watch him deliver his messages on national TV. Joel lives in Houston with his wife, Victoria, and their two children, Jonathan and Alexandra. Joel's book, Your Best Life Now has been #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and has sold over 1,000,000 copies.

    Friday, July 3

    It's Done! - The Review for Your Best Life Now is posted at Your-Key-to-Success.com

    Check out my official book review of Joel Osteen's, Your Best Life Now book. It's posted on the website , http://www.your-key-to-success.com/yourbestlifenow.html.

    Thursday, July 2

    Taking the advice in Your Best Life Now

    Today, I'm taking Joel's advice and taking time to focus on the pursuit of one of my goals - instead of filling my day with mundane tasks. I'm starting put the book review in HTML format for publication on my site at http://www.your-key-to-success/yourbestlifenowreview.html.

    Wednesday, July 1

    Have you ever seen Joel Osteen preach?

    Have you ever seen Joel Osteen preach? He's confident, he's charasmatic & he knows which words to pick to best deliver a message. If you haven't seen him in action, check out his site at http://www.joelosteen.com and visit the on-line streaming section. Or if check out his broadcast TV schedule to catch a glimpse. His "Your Best Life Now" book is a good reflection on what he preaches every Sunday. The congregation is the largest in the U.S. and growing - and Joel & his messages are the reasons. (You may need to register on his site to get access to these links.)

    Monday, June 29

    Your Best Life Now - Book Review part 1

    I start with the comment to listen to Joel preach (or talk depending on your perspective). If you hear him first, then read his book, you can easily visualize him reading the book to you. Check a link on the right side of this blog to listen to some streaming video at his http://www.joelosteen.com website.

    A bonus is to purchase an audio version of his book to get the full impact of this book. Check out the best prices by using the links on the right side of this blog.

    Official Book Review URL
    http://www.your-key-to-success.com/yourbestlifenow.html

    Sunday, June 28

    New info on this Blog - Bill O'Reilly interview, purchase info, etc

    I added quite a few links on where to purchase Joel's new book and also links to other feedback on both Joel's new book as well as Joel's teachings. Interesting reading, take a peek at some of the links - Bill O'Reilly's interview with Joel Osteen.

    Friday, June 26

    Book Review - Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen

    You need to read Joel Osteen's book, Your Best Life Now - it was great. I'm not much of a religious person and I still found great benefit in his new book. Check out the full book review. The review will be posted at www.your-key-to-success.com/yourbestlifenow.html. You can also visit his site directly at http://www.joelosteen.com.

    Friday, March 9

    The 7 Keys to success - Joel Osteen

    The 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
    Your Best Life Now includes the 7 steps below:

    Enlarge Your Vision - (in my opinion, the best advice)
    Develop a Healthy Self Image
    Discover the Power of your Thoughts
    Let Go of the Past
    Find Strength through Adversity - (another good chapter)
    Live to Give - ('Give some, Receive More' would have been a better title)
    Choose to be Happy - (Personally trying to make some changes with this one)

    Saturday, January 13

    Have you ever seen Joel Osteen preach?

    Have you ever seen Joel Osteen preach? He's confident, he's charasmatic & he knows which words to pick to best deliver a message. If you haven't seen him in action, check out his site at http://www.joelosteen.com and visit the on-line streaming section. Or if check out his broadcast TV schedule to catch a glimpse. His "Your Best Life Now" book is a good reflection on what he preaches every Sunday. The congregation is the largest in the U.S. and growing - and Joel & his messages are the reasons. (You may need to register on his site to get access to these links.)

    Friday, February 18

    Thoughts on Joel Osteen - Michael Spencer

    There's Joel the smiling preacher, pastor of America's largest church. The boy who didn't want to preach, but wound up in his daddy's shoes, doing greater things than daddy ever did. The humble, compassionate, ever-positive preacher with the great sense of humor. The best selling author with practical wisdom for everyone, Christian or not.

    Or there's evil Joel, the epitome .... Read more at the link below.

    http://www.internetmonk.com/archives/2005/02/019846.html

    Michael Spencer comments about Joel Osteen and his book, Your Best Life Now.

    Tuesday, February 8

    Osteentatious - A Comment on Joel Osteen

    Among certain segments of the Christian blogosphere this has provoked a reaction, which reached a critical mass when the iMonk published to two above-linked writings. Therein he encouraged the evangelical blogosphere to “out” Joel Osteen as at best heterodox, and at worst a heretic. I wholeheartedly agree with his assessment of the situation; moreover, I find this as one more reason why I feel myself being drawn out of the sphere of evangelicalism.

    See more at the link below

    http://dulciusexasperis.com/2005/02/07/osteentatious/

    Thursday, February 3

    'Expect God's Favor': Interview with Joel Osteen

    Lengthy interview with Laura Sheahen from beliefnet.com about Joel Osteen. Some references about his new book, Your Best Life Now. Below is an excerpt:

    Your book speaks about living at your full potential and getting the most out of life, which is what you say God wants for us. How does God want us to live our lives? He wants us to live our lives happy. He wants us not to endure them, but to enjoy them. The principle of the book is that you can be happy where you are. I know people have problems say, "Well, I’ve got a terrible marriage, ....Click on the link below to see more.

    http://www.beliefnet.com/story/157/story_15735_1.html

    Wednesday, January 26

    Joel Osteen's past Broadcasts

    Check out some of Joel Osteen's past most popular broadcasts. Many of his preachings are outlined in his book, Your Best Life Now. Always inspirational and a joy to listen to.


    http://www.joelosteen.com/site/PageServer?pagename=OnlineStreaming