Mr Osteen became the lead pastor after his father, John Osteen, passed away in 1999. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, but Mr Finner cautioned that the motive for the shooting might ...

She and her husband, John Osteen, rejected the diagnosis and turned to prayer. The next day, the couple lay at the foot of their bed and “there just happened to be a Bible there,” Mrs. Osteen ...

Despite preaching more than 1,000 sermons from the stage at Houston's Lakewood Church, Joel Osteen was always more comfortable behind the camera. Starting out packaging his father John Osteen's ...

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 ...

Osteen took over the pulpit after his father and church founder, John Osteen, died in 1999, and has since grown the church's weekly attendance from an average of about 5,000 to more than 50,000 ...

Osteen had never preached — and never had the desire, he has said — until the Sunday before his father died in 1999. John Osteen had founded the charismatic Christian Lakewood Church in an ...

Osteen had never preached — and never had the desire, he has said — until the Sunday before his father died in 1999. John Osteen had founded the charismatic Christian Lakewood Church in an ...