He stumbles over words. It's January 17, 1999, and Joel's father, the enigmatic John Osteen, is laid up in a hospital bed with complications from dialysis. Someone has placed a telephone receiver ...

Joel Osteen: “It’s the simple things in life ... in Osteen - took over the Lakewood Church running in 1999 when his father, ...

Osteen’s father expanded Lakewood’s already huge ... “And so we have televangelists like Joel Osteen or T.D. Jakes, who have a broadly popular message.” Osteen is not overtly political ...

Joel Osteen: “It’s the simple things in life ... in Osteen - took over the Lakewood Church running in 1999 when his father, ...

Pastor Joel Osteen broke down on stage at Houston's Lakewood ... Osteen took over the pulpit after his father and church founder, John Osteen, died in 1999, and has since grown the church's ...

WHO IS JOEL OSTEEN? Osteen, 60, took the helm of Lakewood Church after John Osteen, his father and the church's founding pastor, passed away in 1999. The church has grown dramatically under Joel ...

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Joel Osteen, senior pastor of America’s largest ... He's spoken often of how he lost his father suddenly in January 1999 — and, after that great loss, felt pushed to preach in church ...

Places of worship are sacred.” The church has grown tremendously over the past 25 years since Joel Osteen took over after his father’s death in 1999 and introduced an upbeat style of Christian ...

Joel Osteen is one of the most familiar faces in ... Osteen inherited his calling from his father and increased the size of the congregation almost five-fold. His book, “Your Best Life Now ...

Joel Osteen is one of the most familiar faces in American religion. The pastor who leads the Houston megachurch where a 5-year-old boy was critically wounded in a Sunday shooting that also hit a ma… ...