*In his Sunday sermon, multimillionaire pastor Joel Osteen addressed the criticism against his decision to initially close the doors to his 16,000-seat Houston megachurch during Hurricane Harvey, in ...

If Joel Osteen has said it once, he’s said it 999 times: “I’d like to talk to you today about” a Bible verse or Christian subject. On Sunday, Mr. Osteen will deliver his 1,000th sermon in the pulpit ...

To sit through consecutive services is to glimpse Joel's aw-shucks, family-man persona and witness his abilities to write, rewrite and present in real time. After 1,000 sermons, it's still difficult ...

Six people have been arrested after heckling Joel Osteen during his sermon at a Texas church, Houston Police said. Each of them were escorted out of Lakewood Church Sunday morning after yelling, ...

HOUSTON — Joel Osteen preached about living without fear in the first Sunday service at his Lakewood Church since a shooting last week that left a child in critical condition and a man injured. The ...

(CNN) — Services at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston resumed Sunday morning with a large security presence, one week after a woman accompanied by her 7-year-old son walked into the megachurch ...

John Rich, a country music star and ex-Lonestar bassist, publicly criticized Joel Osteen, a megachurch pastor in Houston, for avoiding Matthew 24, a chapter of the Bible that addresses the “end times.