Before every bed-time story sermon Joel Osteen continues the tradition begun by John Osteen, his late father and fellow Word Faith prosperity gospel preacher. Based upon their belief in the erroneous “positive confession” teaching Osteen has his followers confess concerning the Bible.  Their mistaken idea is when people confess positive things they are speaking “faith-filled […]

In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. (2 Peter 2:3) Lust For Numbers Makes Strange Spiritual Bedfellows A while back Apprising Ministries brought out that sadly today there are so many in the apostatizing evangelical community who are burying their heads within the spiritual sand of whatever offshoot—rooted in the semi-pelagian Church Growth Movement—it is that highjacked their particular brand […]

Tonight Steven Furtick, one of the Popes of the Carolinas, gushes: stevenfurtick Great night w a great man of God. Thx Pastor Joel 4 your humility & msg of hope. Love & honor! http://yfrog.com/0rto4j (Online source)

We had to search high and low to find it; ok, so actually Apprising Ministries happened to stumble upon this over at Slaughter of the Sheep. But below you will actually see Word Faith pretending pastor Joel Osteen doing some solid exegesis. Unfortunately however, it’s not exegesis of the Bible. Ah no, here we witness pastor Osteen as he shares […]

In her post Joel Osteen Hits Milwaukee at Slice of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter tells us: Joel Osteen brought his show to our city last night. The reporter from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel talked to me longer than I expected, getting a handle on why I and others didn’t support America’s smiling preacher and his happy-talk […]

They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. (1 John 4:5) Withholding The Truth And Leaving People In Their Sin “Joel Osteen’s Still the Name Leaders Know“, a September 5, 2008 puff piece on Joel Osteen from The Washington Times (TWT) we are reminded that he’s: pastor of […]

Unquestionably America’s “smiling pastor” Joel Osteen appears to be a very nice and sincere man. In the introduction to his latest book Become A Better You Osteen writes, “while I can’t guarantee that you will become rich and famous, I can assure you that if you follow [the seven keys within this book], you will […]

Apprising Ministries brings to your attention a piece by Bob Liichow called The Leaven of Lakewood. Liichow is himself a former Word Faith pastor and is also co-founder of Inner City Discernment Ministry. Concerning the late John Osteen, who is the father of Joel Osteen, Liichow writes: I am under no illusions regarding the WOF […]

In the Apprising Ministries article Joel Osteen: Apprising His Word Faith Teachings I have clearly showed those who are looking for the truth that Osteen teaches the exact same positive confession Word Faith theology and prosperity gospel as did his late father John, Kenneth “Dad” Hagin (1917-2003), and which is also currently being preached by […]

Unless you have been living on another planet you have no doubt heard of or have seen America’s smiling pastor Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church, which also happens to be one of the largest professing evangelical Christian congregations in the world. What needs to be understood here is that the only way someone like this […]