Tag: Joel Osteen
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America’s Ugliest Export
Here’s a video from Christianity Today about the prosperity gospel in Africa. (If you are viewing this in a feed reader, you may have to click through to the blog to see the video.) (HT: Justin Taylor)
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Preaching in Pretoria
Oh no. He’s refuting my sermon points before I even speak. Jesus, there’s either going to be radical transformation today, or I’m going to be chased to my car. I shouldn’t have worn flip-flops. Those were my thoughts as the service began this morning at my friend Lordwick’s church here in a South African township,…
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Jesus isn’t a Genie to Do Your Bidding
I picked up this flier from a pastor near the local orphanage I volunteer at in Pretoria. Evidently, Jesus is dishing out miracles next week in Mamelodi. * * * It wouldn’t be right if I didn’t link this video about the prosperity gospel.
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Can Christ-less Book Still Be Considered “Christian” Just Because a Pastor Writes It?
I was at Kinko’s a few days ago and I saw Joel Osteen’s book in the company of many others that were about doing more than getting by financially and becoming wealthy. I’m think the prosperity gospel is not a real gospel, but perhaps we should no longer call Osteen’s books or sermons “Christian” because,…
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Jesus Didn’t Suffer and Die on a Cross to Make You a Better Person
Last November, for my birthday, Mike Janssen gave me a pseudo-present: a Joel Osteen, Become a Better You daily calender (thanks, Mike!). For Thursday, May 15, Osteen quotes Proverbs 3:6, “In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and he will direct and make straight and plan your paths.” Here is Osteen’s motivational thoughts: I believe one of…
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