Joel Osteen
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Friday August 15, 2008
Joel Osteen • Victoria Osteen:
The wife of televangelist Joel Osteen thanked and praised God after a jury unanimously decided Thursday that she did not assault a flight attendant during an alleged tirade over a stain on her first-class seat.“I’m glad it’s over,” Victoria Osteen said afterward. “I expected it because it’s the truth and I know the truth always stands firm.”
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Wednesday August 13, 2008
Joel Osteen • Victoria Osteen:
A Continental Airlines flight attendant who is suing Lakewood Church co-pastor Victoria Osteen, accusing her of attacking her on a plane, told a jury Tuesday she had once described Osteen and her husband, evangelist Joel Osteen, as the “devil” and their church a “cult,” but has since changed her opinion.“I don’t believe they’re the devil,” Sharon Brown said near the end of her testimony on Tuesday.
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Saturday August 9, 2008
Joel Osteen • Victoria Osteen:
The wife of megachurch evangelist Joel Osteen told jurors Friday she was “dumbfounded” and “shook up” after a flight attendant accused her of assaulting her over a spill on a first-class seat. Victoria Osteen, in court because the flight attendant is suing her, said she pushed no one and even ended up cleaning the spill that sparked the incident herself.
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Thursday August 7, 2008
Joel Osteen • Victoria Osteen:
Osteen and her family were on Brown’s flight from Houston to Vail, Colo., two years ago when, according to court documents, witnesses said Osteen became upset about a spill on the armrest of her first-class seat. She asked the flight attendants to clean up the spill and when they did not respond quickly enough, Osteen became confrontational, according to documents filed in the civil case that goes to trial today.
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Saturday December 1, 2007
Joel Osteen:
Preaching half a gospel message brings Joel Osteen big crowds.
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Friday November 30, 2007
Joel Osteen:
He has not taken a salary from his Houston megachurch for two years. He owns one house — the same one he and his wife, Victoria, have lived in for 13 years — and until recently he drove a 9-year-old car he inherited from his late father. Osteen pays his own hotel bills, and there is no private jet.
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Monday October 22, 2007
Joel Osteen:
Christianity Lite preacher Joel Osteen preaches what people want to hear. The world eats it up.
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Tuesday October 16, 2007
Joel Osteen:
The popular pastor’s message of prosperity and forgiveness attracts massive crowds. Osteen, who has gained international prominence as a pastor and best-selling author, has turned the church into the country’s largest with more than 40,000 members. His followers flock to hear sermons laced with themes of faith and positivity.
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Monday October 15, 2007
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HOUSTON, Oct. 14, 2007(CBS) Joel Osteen's positive, upbeat can-do message has turned him into America's most popular preacher and earned him the title of most influential Christian in the country. He pastors the biggest and fastest growing American church and his services are the most watched religious broadcast in the country.
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Friday July 6, 2007
Joel Osteen:
Joel Osteen, today’s leading messenger of Christianity Lite (all of the benefits, none of the commitment of genuine Christianity) is coming to England.
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Wednesday March 21, 2007
Joel Osteen:
The lawsuit, filed in September, accuses Victoria Osteen of pushing Sharon Brown, a Continental Airlines flight attendant, and elbowing her in the chest.
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Monday October 2, 2006
Joel Osteen • Victoria Osteen:
The Federal Aviation Administration has fined Victoria Osteen, wife of Lakewood pastor Joel Osteen, $3,000 after determining she had interfered with a Continental Airlines crew member aboard a flight late last year. And this week, a flight attendant filed suit claiming she was assaulted by Victoria Osteen during that flight to Vail, Colo., for the Christmas holidays.
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Monday September 4, 2006
Joel Osteen:
He’s the most popular preacher in the country right now - a best-selling author and the “most watched minister” in America.
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Monday August 21, 2006
Joel Osteen:
Officials continue to investigate mysterious death of pastor's great aunt
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Monday July 24, 2006
Joel Osteen:
Seven years ago, Joel Osteen was running the cameras at his father's Houston church. Then his father died of a heart attack. Osteen, who didn't finish college and never attended seminary, took over as pastor.
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Wednesday March 15, 2006
Joel Osteen:
Megaselling pastor Joel Osteen has signed to do his next book with Free Press. Breaking records with his Warner Faith-published Your Best Life Now, which has sold more than 4 million copies to date, Osteen has signed a one book deal with the S&S imprint for what RBL has now learned is $13 million. The deal gives S&S audio and U.K. rights and was orchestrated by Free Press editorial director Dominick V. Anfuso and Jan Miller of Dupree, Miller & Associates. A fall 2007 pub date has been set.
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Wednesday December 21, 2005
Joel Osteen • Victoria Osteen:
FBI agent says the pastor's wife didn't follow a flight attendant's instructions
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Joel Osteen:
HOUSTON — The wife of the pastor of the nation's largest church was asked to leave a plane after she failed to comply with a flight attendant's instructions, the FBI said Tuesday.
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Friday October 28, 2005
Joel Osteen:
While some argue his words lack substance, Joel Osteen's preaching still moves millions
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Thursday October 20, 2005
Joel Osteen:
Joel Osteen is one pastor unlikely to dwell on Jesus' warning about the difficulties the rich face getting into heaven.
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Monday September 19, 2005
Joel Osteen:
WASHINGTON--They flocked to see him. From Maryland, Virginia, even Pennsylvania they came to see their favorite minister. Joel Osteen, the pastor of Houston-based Lakewood Church, is on tour.
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Monday July 18, 2005
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HOUSTON - America's largest church celebrated its move into the former arena for the Houston Rockets with a capacity crowd of 16,000, an upbeat sermon from its televangelist pastor and a spirited welcome from the governor of Texas.
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HOUSTON, July 17 - Where the Beers of the World kiosk once dispensed suds to rowdy N.B.A. fans, volunteers were handing out church literature on Sunday. And where Patricia Davis, 38, once saw ZZ Top in concert, she now plans to worship.
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Saturday July 16, 2005
Joel Osteen:
Televangelist Joel Osteen offers sermons with a smile, and viewers respond.
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Friday March 4, 2005
Joel Osteen:
Everyone knows the hottest ticket in Chicago for the month of May is U2's four-night stand at the United Center.
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