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| joel osteen expect the unexpected: The Power of Favor Joel Osteen, 2019-12-17 Learn how declaring God's love will bless you with favor and fulfillment in this uplifting book -- perfect for anyone who is determined to find success and spiritual inspiration. God helps you accomplish what you couldn't manage on your own. With His blessings, you stand out in the crowd and get breaks that you didn't deserve. The psalmist said, God's favor surrounds us like a shield. That means that everywhere you go, you have an advantage, a divine empowerment, and a key to open up the right doors. With Joel's encouragement, you'll see how God's goodness uplifts you every day. He wants you to reach new levels of fulfillment, new levels of increase, new levels of promotion, new levels of victory. You have been called out, set apart, and chosen to live a distinctively favored life. When you realize you have been marked for blessings, you will feel the force of His favor and overcome challenges that you can't face on your own. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Expecting and Accepting The Unexpected Alena Naron, 2013-09 I am just an ordinary woman turned extraordinary through circumstances. I touch others through my own tragedies by giving them hope and encouragement and reminding them that sometimes the richest people are those who have endured tragedy, pain, sadness, and struggle, allowing them to lead a more abundant life. Never would I change my life experiences. My greatest gift is my endless compassion for others, and my sincerest hope is to bring each and every one of you the gift of pure joy, the kind of joy that enlarges your heart and brings tears to your eyes. I have laughed at diversity, tragedy, failure, poor health, and financial devastation. Yet I am so very rich! Yes, it was God who told me to contact you through my book and his words. If you met me personally, you would understand this is not my ego talking. I am only repeating what God told me. I am. You are. We are all destined for greatness! |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: I Declare Joel Osteen, 2012-09-18 Embrace God's blessings every morning and experience the glory of His promises with thirty-one powerful Scripture lessons based on a regular, favorite feature of Joel Osteen's sermons at Lakewood Church. Broken into thirty-one segments, this book defines the most powerful blessings in Scripture and encourages readers to declare one each day for a month. The declarations will affirm God's blessings in the area of health, family legacy, decisions, finances, thoughts, outlook, and overcoming obstacles. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Break Out! Joel Osteen, 2013-10-01 Rise above your greatest trials and discover the power of God's greatness with five simple strategies -- and step into the blessings of your life. We were not created to live average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling lives. God created us to leave our marks on our generations. Every person has seeds of greatness planted within by the Creator. When life weighs upon us, pushes us down, and limits our thinking, we have what it takes to overcome and rise above into the fullness of our destinies. In this dynamic, inspiring and faith-building new book, New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen provides practical steps and encouragement for creating a life without limitations. This book will help you break out and break free so that you can increase your productivity, improve your relationships, and believe in bigger dreams. Here's how you can move beyond barriers: Dare to believe that the best will happen Adopt an irrepressible break out attitude Make room for increase Pray bold prayers Follow God's plan beyond your circumstances Filled with faith and inspiration, Break Out! will challenge you to build a new perspective, let nothing hold you back, and reject any limiting labels. Pastor Osteen will inspire you to see that a life-changing attitude begins in your own mind: When you break through in your mind, believing you can rise higher and overcome obstacles, then God will unleash the power within that will enable you to go beyond the ordinary into the extraordinary life you were designed to live. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Salvation with a Smile Phillip Luke Sinitiere, 2015-11-13 Joel Osteen, the smiling preacher, has quickly emerged as one of the most recognizable Protestant leaders in the country. His megachurch, the Houston based Lakewood Church, hosts an average of over 40,000 worshipers each week. Osteen is the best-selling author of numerous books, and his sermons and inspirational talks appear regularly on mainstream cable and satellite radio. How did Joel Osteen become Joel Osteen? How did Lakewood become the largest megachurch in the U. S.? Salvation with a Smile, the first book devoted to Lakewood Church and Joel Osteen, offers a critical history of the congregation by linking its origins to post-World War II neopentecostalism, and connecting it to the exceptionally popular prosperity gospel movement and the enduring attraction of televangelism. In this richly documented book, historian Phillip Luke Sinitiere carefully excavates the life and times of Lakewood’s founder, John Osteen, to explain how his son Joel expanded his legacy and fashioned the congregation into America’s largest megachurch. As a popular preacher, Joel Osteen’s ministry has been a source of existential strength for many, but also the routine target of religious critics who vociferously contend that his teachings are theologically suspect and spiritually shallow. Sinitiere’s keen analysis shows how Osteen’s rebuttals have expressed a piety of resistance that demonstrates evangelicalism’s fractured, but persistent presence. Salvation with a Smile situates Lakewood Church in the context of American religious history and illuminates how Osteen has parlayed an understanding of American religious and political culture into vast popularity and success. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: It's Your Time Journal Joel Osteen, 2010-12-07 Get your hopes up. Raise your expectations. Expect the unexpected. In challenging times, it may be difficult to see better days ahead. You may feel as though your struggles will never end. Yet, these are exactly the moments when you should seek and expect God’s blessing. It’s your time to declare your faith, to look for God’s favor, and to find fulfillment in His plans for you! In It’s Your Time, pastor and bestselling author Joel Osteen offers messages of faith, hope, and strength to help you rise above any circumstance so that you can fulfill God’s plan for your life. Drawing upon his own experiences and those of people around the world, he shares five inspirational principles about your power to live the life that God has planned for you. It’s your time to believe God has solutions even before you have problems. It’s your time for favor, so understand that no matter where you stand in life, you never stand alone. It’s your time for restoration, so know you will emerge from hard times with everything you need to soar higher than ever before. It’s your time to trust and give your life over to God so He can light the way for you. It’s your time to stretch and strengthen your faith. In this five-week companion journal, you will learn how to apply each of those principles to your everyday life. Joel has filled this book with bold new prayers, inspiring stories, and practical tools for moving forward in faith. You will find spiritual renewal. You will find proven methods for not just picking up the pieces but for building a new life better than you’d imagined. It’s Your Time! |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Love Your Life Victoria Osteen, 2009-04-07 Counsels women on how to live life joyfully and satisfactorily, in a guide that makes recommendations for balancing priorities and coping with matters of faith and health. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: It's Your Time Joel Osteen, 2010-10-05 An exciting message about seizing the day from bestselling author Osteen, this work guides readers in activating their faith, achieving their dreams, and increasing in God's favor. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Your Best Life Now Joel Osteen, 2004 |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: It's Your Time and Daily Readings from It's Your Time Boxed Set Joel Osteen, 2012-10-01 It's Your Timeoffers a potent and inspiring message about the power that God has to help you change your life. Bestselling author Joel Osteen issues a call to readers to rise up and seize the opportunities that are available to them every day. He uses compelling examples drawn from the Bible and popular culture to show how everyone has the God given ability to achieve great things. Filled with strong Christian principles, the book is structured around four main concepts-Favor (Faith), Restoration, Belief in Yourself and Lifting Others. Pastor Osteen offers a bigger, bolder message than any of his previous works: God has given you everything you need to change your life, and you must use that power to strive beyond your limits. Daily Readings from It's Your Timeis a devotional in which Osteen offers 90 days of thought-provoking messages, words of encouragement, and valuable scripture that emphasize the lessons of It's Your Time. This specially selected collection of biblical passages illuminates different points of Joel's messages and is designed to inspire readers to seize all of the opportunities that God can provide. Joel draws upon personal anecdotes to illustrate the passages of scripture, and illustrates how he and others have used found ways to take control of their lives and deepen their relationship with God. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Become a Better You Joel Osteen, 2007-10-15 Is this as good as it gets? Or can you enjoy more of what life has to offer? Not only can you live happily every day, bestselling author Joel Osteen suggests you must discover the potential within yourself and learn how to use it to live better, and to help others better themselves as well. God didn't create you to be average. You were created to excel! You have everything you need to fulfill your God-given destiny, and there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you discover how to be a better you! In Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day, Joel Osteen, America's best-known pastor, will inspire and motivate you to live with more joy, hope, and peace -- truly a life of victory! Joel will help you look deep inside yourself to become a better spouse and parent, a better boss or employee, a better community leader, a better friend -- in short, a better person! Joel Osteen reveals seven simple yet profound principles that when taken to heart will help you become all that God has created you to be. In a straightforward, easy-to-understand style, Osteen explains key biblical values; the text is laced with personal testimonies that will enlighten and uplift you. Each of the seven keys has its own section, complete with a set of practical action points. Thus Become a Better You will guide you in the process of uncovering your hidden resources. Within these pages, Joel Osteen addresses topics such as building your confidence, developing better relationships, finding peace within, and staying passionate about life. Become a Better You will encourage you to reach your unique God-given potential, and will help you to enjoy every day of your life, despite your circumstances. As you incorporate Joel's easy-to-grasp principles into your life, you will be pleasantly surprised at how much more God has in store for you, and how quickly you become a better you! |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Inspired Blessings Phil Rendado, 2023-10-02 Prepare to embark on an extraordinary journey of faith, inspiration, and transformation with Inspired Blessings: A Summarized Compilation of Joel Osteen's Timeless Teachings Volume 1. Joel Osteen, celebrated pastor, author, and renowned speaker, has touched the lives of millions around the world with his uplifting sermons and empowering messages. Now, you have the opportunity to delve into a carefully curated selection of his most impactful teachings in this first volume of Inspired Blessings. Within the pages of this ebook, we have condensed the essence of Joel Osteen's profound wisdom into a format that is both accessible and enlightening. Whether you are a dedicated follower of his ministry or new to his teachings, Inspired Blessings will fill your life with positivity, hope, and spiritual guidance. Here's what you'll find in Volume 1: - **Timeless Wisdom, Summarized:** We have distilled Joel Osteen's teachings to their core, presenting you with the most transformative concepts that can illuminate your path to a life filled with blessings. - **Practical Application:** Each teaching is accompanied by practical advice and real-life examples, ensuring that you can immediately apply Joel Osteen's wisdom to your everyday challenges, triumphs, and dreams. - **Daily Inspiration:** Whether you seek encouragement in times of adversity or wish to cultivate a daily habit of positivity, Inspired Blessings Volume 1 is your trusted companion on your spiritual journey. Joel Osteen's timeless teachings will empower you to rise above life's obstacles, discover your true purpose, and embrace the blessings that await you. Join us on this exploration of faith, hope, and the infinite possibilities that lie ahead. Inspired Blessings: A Summarized Compilation of Joel Osteen's Timeless Teachings Volume 1 is your invitation to experience the transformative power of Joel Osteen's message and to embark on a journey toward a life filled with inspiration and abundant blessings. Open the door to a brighter, more fulfilling future with Volume 1 of Inspired Blessings, and let the blessings flow into your life. Your path to a more inspired and blessed existence begins here. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: God Is Not Mad at You Joyce Meyer, 2013-09-03 When bestselling author Joyce Meyer posted God's not mad at you on Facebook, she didn't anticipate that her words would trigger thousands of responses of gratitude and relief. Apparently many Christians struggle to reconcile their perception of God as both a loving parent and a stern judge. In GOD IS NOT MAD AT YOU, Joyce will help those who haven't truly received God's love because they are afraid of His anger and disapproval. She explores the source of this confusion, so His genuine character can be better understood and His love can be experienced on an entirely new level. Chapter titles include: * Perfectionism and Approval * The Pain of Rejection * Guilt and Shame * Developing Your Potential * Run to God, Not from Him * Getting Comfortable with God It is important for us to remember that God's anger is directed toward our sinful behavior rather than toward us. If you feel guilty right now and are afraid that God is mad at you, then you are miserable. But your misery can be immediately changed to peace and joy by simply believing God's Word. Believe that God loves you and that He is ready to show you mercy and forgive you completely. Believe that God has a good plan for your life. Believe that God is not mad at you! --Joyce Meyer |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set Joel Osteen, 2012-10-01 It's Your Timeoffers a potent and inspiring message about the power that God has to help you change your life. Bestselling author Joel Osteen issues a call to readers to rise up and seize the opportunities that are available to them every day. He uses compelling examples drawn from the Bible and popular culture to show how everyone has the God given ability to achieve great things. Filled with strong Christian principles, the book is structured around four main concepts-Favor (Faith), Restoration, Belief in Yourself and Lifting Others. Pastor Osteen offers a bigger, bolder message than any of his previous works: God has given you everything you need to change your life, and you must use that power to strive beyond your limits. In Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day, Joel Osteen inspires and motivates readers to live with more joy, hope, and peace. Osteen reveals seven simple yet profound principles that when taken to heart will help everyone become all that God has created them to be. In a straightforward, easy-to-understand style, Osteen explains key biblical values; the text is laced with personal testimonies to enlighten and uplift. Become a Better Youwill encourage each reader to reach his or her unique God-given potential, and will help him enjoy every day of your life, even in the face of challenging circumstances. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Daily Readings from Love Your Life Victoria Osteen, 2011-04-12 In Love Your Life: Living Happy, Healthy, and Whole, Victoria Osteen offered practical solutions to achieving what every person desires: balance between relationships, career, social obligations, and self. Sharing personal experiences from her own family, ministry, and business endeavors that helped shape her into the person she is today, Victoria is able to approach life with enthusiasm, grace, humor, and a winning spirit. Now in Daily Readings from Love Your Life, Victoria offers a guide to help you transform your life and love it more! Each reading offers insight, scriptures, stories, and uplifting messages focusing on the eleven themes found in the bestselling book Love Your Life: • Understanding Your Influence • Living with Confidence • Embracing What’s Important • Keeping the Right Perspective • Making the Most of What You Have • Recovering Lost Opportunities • Overcoming Offenses • Enjoying Rich Relationships • Discovering What Others Need • Being a People Builder • Receiving Love Each section consists of readings that elaborate on these themes. As you travel through each day, you will find new and exciting ways to connect with the teachings of Love Your Life. Highlighting key stories from the book and sharing new ones, this devotional also supplies passages and daily thoughts that offer messages of faith, hope, and strength to help you lead the most fulfilling life possible. As co-pastor of Lakewood Church—America’s largest church—Victoria Osteen understands intimately how day-to-day responsibilities can pile up and at times feel overwhelming. As a wife and mother, she sets the tone for her household and acts as a role model for her family. As a minister, she reaches out to an enormous community of people who look to her for guidance, strength, wisdom, and encouragement. She knows as well as anyone that operating in so many different roles can be extremely demanding, yet she has managed to find balance. If you ask her, she’ll tell you that she loves her life and she wants you to love yours too. A life well lived does not come easily; you have to set out for it, look for it, and make it happen. Love Your Life shows how to turn the challenges of each day into opportunities to love and appreciate all that you are. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: God in Gotham Jon Butler, 2020-09-29 A master historian traces the flourishing of organized religion in Manhattan between the 1880s and the 1960s, revealing how faith adapted and thrived in the supposed capital of American secularism. In Gilded Age Manhattan, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant leaders agonized over the fate of traditional religious practice amid chaotic and multiplying pluralism. Massive immigration, the anonymity of urban life, and modernity’s rationalism, bureaucratization, and professionalization seemingly eviscerated the sense of religious community. Yet fears of religion’s demise were dramatically overblown. Jon Butler finds a spiritual hothouse in the supposed capital of American secularism. By the 1950s Manhattan was full of the sacred. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants peppered the borough with sanctuaries great and small. Manhattan became a center of religious publishing and broadcasting and was home to august spiritual reformers from Reinhold Niebuhr to Abraham Heschel, Dorothy Day, and Norman Vincent Peale. A host of white nontraditional groups met in midtown hotels, while black worshippers gathered in Harlem’s storefront churches. Though denied the ministry almost everywhere, women shaped the lived religion of congregations, founded missionary societies, and, in organizations such as the Zionist Hadassah, fused spirituality and political activism. And after 1945, when Manhattan’s young families rushed to New Jersey and Long Island’s booming suburbs, they recreated the religious institutions that had shaped their youth. God in Gotham portrays a city where people of faith engaged modernity rather than foundered in it. Far from the world of “disenchantment” that sociologist Max Weber bemoaned, modern Manhattan actually birthed an urban spiritual landscape of unparalleled breadth, suggesting that modernity enabled rather than crippled religion in America well into the 1960s. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Rule Your Day Joel Osteen, 2023-09-12 #1 New York Times bestselling author and Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen teaches readers to keep their days full of faith, praise, and victory. You would like to savor each moment, grow into your best life, engage in productive relationships, and see your dreams come to pass. But distractions, delays, and disappointments relentlessly hijack your plans and undermine your good intentions. While you can't control everything that comes your way, you can control how life's unexpected setbacks affect your attitude, emotions, thoughts, and actions. In his latest work, #1New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen shows you how to be intentional and Rule Your Day. With his trademark wisdom and unwavering positivity, Joel reveals six keys for claiming control over each new day. He teaches you how to identify faulty thinking, recast your vision for the future, rise above your circumstances, guard your heart and mind against negativity, and transcend distractions to focus on what matters most. When you work with the tools God has given you and take control of your time, you can bounce back from disappointments, prevent poisonous thoughts from entering your atmosphere, and fully enjoy the bright future that's ahead of you. Don't settle for surviving when you could be thriving--Rule Your Day! |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Scripture Twisting James W. Sire, 2009-09-20 How often have you encountered some bizarre doctrine only to be stunned to hear a Bible verse quoted to support it? With new religious cults springing up almost daily and old ones growing rapidly, this is more and more common. How are they seemingly able to twist Scripture to mean something orthodox Christians have never believed it to mean in two thousand years? James Sire, author of The Universe Next Door and How to Read Slowly, has isolated twenty separate kinds of reading errors which are characteristically made by cultists as they interpret the Bible. He covers the full range from simple misquotation to complex argumentation which links one slightly eccentric interpretation to another, mixes in a few orthodox readings and ends with a conclusion totally foreign to the biblical world view. Sire also handles twisted translation, overspecification, virtue by association, ignoring the context and other flawed interpretations. A book to help us all become better readers of the Scriptures. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: The Healing Power of the Holy Communion Joseph Prince, 2020 Pray your way to health and wholeness Based on Pastor Prince's teaching on the Holy Communion, this new prayer guide will help readers put their faith into action when it comes to their heath. Day by day, Pastor Prince highlights simple, specific Scriptures you can pray to help increase your faith and partake of the benefits Jesus purchased on the cross. Learn to walk with God, commune with the Holy Spirit, and meditate on the finished work of Jesus. Then watch His peace and power reign in your life. Be encouraged and start walking in a greater measure of health today |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Hope for Today Bible Joel Osteen, 2013-08-27 God's Word is Truth. It is the very character and essence of God in written form. As you study the Scriptures with an alert mind and a receptive heart, you will be strengthened, empowered, and filled with the hope that comes through a loving and growing relationship with Jesus Christ. We are who the Bible says we are, we can have what it says we can have, and we can do all that it promises we can do. This is the heart of the message that Joel and Victoria Osteen share every week with an audience of millions around the world via television, the internet, and worship events. Their practical, uplifting message of hope found in Christ has changed the lives of individuals, impacted families, and literally transformed communities. They place an incredible value on the principles of the Bible, which have a miraculous, life-changing impact on anyone who is willing to study and obey its truths. The Hope for Today Bible is filled with insights, notes, and encouragements from Joel and Victoria designed to help you grow deeper in your walk with God. It also includes specific verses that you can pray over your relationships, your children, your finances, and your health. In addition, HopePoints are key words and supporting scriptures related to topics such as favor, forgiveness, anger, depression, loneliness, self-control, and many more. This Bible is presented in the New Living Translation, which combines phenomenal scholarship and textual accuracy with clear, easy-to-understand contemporary language. The Bible will come alive and become clear like never before. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: 30 Thoughts for Victorious Living Joel Osteen, 2008-09 |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Global Pentecostalism in the 21st Century Robert W. Hefner, 2013-10-02 This state-of-the-field overview of Pentecostalism around the world focuses on cultural developments among second- and third-generation adherents in regions with large Pentecostal communities, considering the impact of these developments on political participation, citizenship, gender relations, and economic morality. Leading scholars from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and history present useful introductions to global issues and country-specific studies drawn from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the former USSR. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry John Mark Comer, 2019-10-29 ECPA BESTSELLER • A compelling emotional and spiritual case against hurry and in favor of a slower, simpler way of life—from the New York Times bestselling author of Practicing the Way “Prophetic, practical, and profoundly life giving . . . provides a way forward that creates hope, hunger, and a vision of a beautiful life. I consider this required reading.”—Jon Tyson, lead pastor of the Church of the City New York and author of Beautiful Resistance “Who am I becoming?” That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. Outwardly, he appeared successful. But inwardly, things weren’t pretty. So he turned to a trusted mentor for guidance and heard these words: “Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. Hurry is the great enemy of the spiritual life.” It wasn’t the response he expected, but it was—and continues to be—the answer he needs. Too often we treat the symptoms of toxicity in our modern world instead of trying to pinpoint the cause. A growing number of voices are pointing at hurry, or busyness, as a root of much evil. The perfect read to help you start the new year off right, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry is a fascinating roadmap to staying emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: The Hidden Path of Adversity Mark Shattuck, 2020-03-16 |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Every Day a Friday Joel Osteen, 2011-09-13 Experience the joy of God's message and begin each day with a positive outlook with these words of wisdom from Lakewood Church pastor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen. Research that shows people are happiest on Fridays. Now, learn how you can generate this level of contentment and joy every day of the week. As a man who maintains a constant positive outlook in spite of circumstances, Osteen has described this message as a core theme of his ministry. With personal experiences, scriptural insights, and principles for true happiness, he'll show you how to find the same opportunities for pure joy that you experience at five o'clock on Friday. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Pause for Thought BBC Radio 2, 2016-10-18 Highly designed and vibrantly colorful words of wisdom from the BBC’s spiritual radio show This collection of scripts from BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought showcases the incredible insights that the different faiths in the UK today offer to people of all religions - and to those of none. Together, these pieces provide a guide to finding happiness and achieving psychological wellness, despite all the challenges we face. In both the selection of pieces and in the contemporary design, the emphasis is on pausing - on stopping readers in their tracks and offering new ways of perceiving and connecting with each other. The book features an exciting range of commentators with great public profile, such as comedians Shazia Mirza and Paul Kerensa and ex-Communard Richard Coles, with a Foreword by the show's presenters, Chris Evans and Vanessa Feltz. Each of the book's seven chapters has a theme, reinforcing the overall inspirational and positive message of the book: Live Boldly, Challenge Perceptions, Understand, Connect, Love, Be Thankful, Let Go. A superb gift as well as an inspiring self-purchase. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Not the Religious Type Dave Schmelzer, 2008 Smeltzer, a minister in the Vineyard Church, describes the events that led him from athiesm to Christianity. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Brands of Faith Mara Einstein, 2007-09-14 Through a series of fascinating case studies of faith brands, marketing insider Mara Einstein has produced a lively account of the book in the commercialization of religion. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Salvation on the Small Screen? Nadia Bolz-Weber, 2008-09 A book for everyone whos ever flipped past the religious channel |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: The Preacher's Wife Kate Bowler, 2020-09-15 Although most evangelical traditions bar women from ordained ministry, many women have carved out unofficial positions of power in their husbands' spiritual empires or their own ministries. The biggest stars write bestselling books, grab high ratings on Christian television, and even preach. Bowler offers a sympathetic and revealing portrait of megachurch women celebrities, showing how they must balance the demands of celebrity culture and conservative, male-dominated faiths. And black celebrity preachers' wives carry a special burden of respectability. A compelling account of women's search for spiritual authority in the age of celebrity. -- adapted from jacket |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Charismatic Chaos John MacArthur, 1992 Recognizing the importance of the charismatic movement and the need for a biblical evaluation of it, MacArthur analyzes the doctrinal differences between charismatics and non-charismatics in the light of scripture. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Exceptional You! Victoria Osteen, 2019-04-02 Become the exceptional person God has called you to be with these seven practices for living a fulfilled and plentiful life from Lakewood Church co-pastor and bestselling author Victoria Osteen. In her latest book, Exceptional You! Victoria Osteen shares seven ways to become the exceptional person God has called you to be. She says, If you're going reach your highest potential in life, you're going to have to develop the ability to see beyond where you are right now. Through empowering, uplifting stories and biblical teachings, Victoria will encourage you to set your mind and intent towards the important things in life with seven exceptional practices: Keep your memory box full of encouragement Lift up your eyes Know that you are chosen Love well Keep your accounts short Live in your space of gratitude Start your day off right Live encouraged, live empowered, and live intentional, and see the new and exciting things God has in store for you. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Five Tomes Against Nestorius Saint Cyril, Aeterna Press, On the death of Theophilus, Archbishop of Alexandria, in A. D. 412, his nephew and successor, S. Cyril, comes suddenly before us. For of S. Cyril’s previous life we have only a few scattered notices. We do not know in what year he was born, nor any thing of his parents, nor where he was brought up. That S. Cyril had received a thoroughly good education, is abundantly clear; not only from his very extensive reading, which a mind of such large grasp as S. Cyril’s would ever provide for itself, but that his reading being so well digested implies good early training. The great accuracy of his Theology implies a most accurate Theological education. Aeterna Press |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Making Sense of the Bible Adam Hamilton, 2014-03-18 Denominations from evangelical to mainline continue to experience deep divisions over universal social issues. The underlying debate isn’t about a particular social issue, but instead it is about how we understand the nature of scripture and how we should interpret it. The world’s bestselling, most-read, and most-loved book is also one of the most confusing. In Making Sense of the Bible, Adam Hamilton, one of the country’s leading pastors and Christian authors, addresses the hot-button issues that plague the church and cultural debate, and answers many of the questions frequently asked by Christians and non-Christians alike. Did God really command Moses to put gay people to death? Did Jesus really teach that everyone who is not a Christian will be assigned to hell? Why would Paul command women to “keep silent in the church?” Were Adam and Eve real people? Is the book of Revelation really about the end times? Who decided which books made it into the scriptures and why? Is the Bible ever wrong? In approachable and inviting language, Hamilton addresses these often misunderstood biblical themes leading readers to a deeper appreciation of the Bible so that we might hear God speak through it and find its words to be life-changing and life-giving. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: A Brief History of Bad Medicine Robert Youngson, Ian Schott, 2012-04-03 From quack cures to infamous doctors, the history of medicine is littered with bad mistakes and unexpected discoveries. This insightful introduction uncovers the stories of Typhiod Mary, Sigmund Freud's misuse of cocaine, why some drugs are worse than diseases, and more. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God Stephen Charnock, 1840 |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: The Power of Right Believing Joseph Prince, 2014-10-23 What you believe is powerful. If you can change what you believe, you can change your life! Many today are struggling to control their behaviors and actions because they don't have control over their emotions and feelings. They don't have control over their emotions and feelings because they don't have control over their thoughts. And they don't have control over their thoughts because they are not controlling what they believe. Put simply, if you believe wrong, you will struggle with wrong thoughts, toxic emotions, and destructive addictions. The good news is, there is a way out of this vicious cycle of defeat. THE POWER OF RIGHT BELIEVING will guide you to victory with these seven simple but practical keys that you can apply every day in your life: - Believe In God's Love For You - Learn To See What God Sees - Receive God's Complete Forgiveness - Win The Battle For Your Mind - Be Free From Self-Occupation - Have A Confident Expectation Of Good - Find Rest In The Father's Love These seven keys are easy and highly effective Bible-based principles that will calibrate your mind to develop positive habits for right believing. Start believing right and experience freedom from every fear, guilt, and addiction. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: ReSYNC Your Life Samir Becic, 2017-10-31 Named “#1 Fitness Trainer in the World” four times in a row, health and fitness expert Samir Becic motivates readers to become a stronger, leaner, smarter, and happier version of themselves in 28 days by using his revolutionary and highly effective ReSYNC® Method. Samir Becic is one of the most celebrated fitness trainers in the world. His revolutionary ReSYNC® Method shows people how to resync their minds and bodies for optimum health and fitness so that they live fully and healthy, the way God created them. A whole body-mind approach, ReSYNC® is an alternative training program that encompasses physical fitness, nutritional health, and mental and spiritual balance. The power of the ReSYNC® Method comes from its simplicity. It uses the body’s own movement and natural resistance instead of costly or heavy equipment, which allows followers to push their bodies to their full potential without harming themselves. As a result, athletes and exercise buffs consistently tout it as more effective than gym training. The nutrition plan includes foods that lead to glowing health, a leaner physique, and increased brain power. And the spiritual component encourages prayer and meditation techniques linked to better health. Samir Becic’s proven strategies, implemented with tens of thousands of clients for more than 15 years--from Lakewood Church to Bally Total Fitness Clubs--will help readers ReSYNC® their body, mind, and spirit to be everything they were meant to be. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Stop the Procession Bishop Oneil Williams, 2022-04-20 In the correct hand, this book is intended to motivate change. The people that this book is intended to reach are those who have watched their joy turn into sorrow and their happiness turn into unhappiness. These are the people who have lost what they thought to be everything and have no reason to move on. The purpose is to motivate them not to give up or bury it all in depression and hopelessness. Everyone faces difficult days. Everyone faces some ups and down in their lives. How you handle it or how you choose to deal with your bad days will enable you to either rebound or just bury it all in faithlessness and hopelessness. This book is intended for the readers to find different path that they can take to come back from a setback, to get off the road of procession, to recover everything lost, and more. This is all built on giving hope a chance and letting the saying which says While there is life, there is hope be more than just a quote but reality. My hope is that, while everything might look dead in your life, it doesn't mean that it is final. There is still what we call resurrection power. That hope can live gain. Your joy can be restored. Your happiness can live again, and hopefully this book will encourage you to live again. With the right source meeting you at your exit, resurrection is possible. I hope, when faced with these challenges, that you do not give up on the possibility that Jesus can meet you in the lowest place of your life and turn it around back to your happy place. |
| joel osteen expect the unexpected: Daily Readings from Every Day a Friday Joel Osteen, 2013-04-23 Begin each day with gratitude, good humor, and faith with these companion readings for Joel Osteen's #1 New York Times bestseller Every Day a Friday and see God's gifts more clearly than ever before. This 90-day devotional incorporates excerpts from the original book emphasizing faith-building messages day to day; along with additional supportive and encouraging material in the form of key Bible verses, daily prayers, and daily thoughts. Divided into seven key sections, each building on the next, the format helps readers to put events and circumstances in perspective, and to give them a mental, emotional and spiritual lift each and every day. |
Joel 1 NIV - The word of the LORD that came to Joel - Bible Gateway
The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel. An Invasion of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in …
Joel 1 RVR1960 - Devastación de la tierra por la - Bible Gateway
1 Palabra de Jehová que vino a Joel, hijo de Petuel. 2 Oíd esto, ancianos, y escuchad, todos los moradores de la tierra.
Joel 2:28-32 - BibleGateway.com
Joel 2:31: Mt. 24.29; Mr. 13.24-25; Lc. 21.25; Ap. 6.12-13. Joel 2:32: Hch. 2.17-21. Joel 2:32: Ro. 10.13.
Joel 1 KJV - The word of the LORD that came to Joel - Bible Gateway
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
Joel 1 ESV - The word of the LORD that came to Joel, - Bible …
The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: An Invasion of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in …
Joel 1 NVI - Esta es la palabra del SEñOR que vino - Bible Gateway
Esta es la palabra del SEñOR que vino a Joel, hijo de Petuel. La invasión de langostas - ¡Oigan esto, ancianos del pueblo! ¡Presten atención, habitantes todos del país!
JOEL 1 NKJV - The Locust Plague in Judah - Bible Gateway
The Locust Plague in Judah - The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. The Land Laid Waste - Hear this, you elders, And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has …
Joel 1 CSB - The word of the LORD that came to Joel - Bible Gateway
The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel: A Plague of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days …
Joel 1 NASB - The Devastation by Locusts - Bible Gateway
The Devastation by Locusts - The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: Hear this, you elders, And listen, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your …
Joel 2 NIV - An Army of Locusts - Blow the trumpet - Bible Gateway
Joel 2:19 Or Lord will be jealous … / and take pity … / 19 The Lord will reply; Joel 2:25 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain. Joel 2:32 In …
Joel 1 NIV - The word of the LORD that came to Joel - Bible Gateway
The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel. An Invasion of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; listen, all who live in the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days or in …
Joel 1 RVR1960 - Devastación de la tierra por la - Bible Gateway
1 Palabra de Jehová que vino a Joel, hijo de Petuel. 2 Oíd esto, ancianos, y escuchad, todos los moradores de la tierra.
Joel 2:28-32 - BibleGateway.com
Joel 2:31: Mt. 24.29; Mr. 13.24-25; Lc. 21.25; Ap. 6.12-13. Joel 2:32: Hch. 2.17-21. Joel 2:32: Ro. 10.13.
Joel 1 KJV - The word of the LORD that came to Joel - Bible Gateway
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
Joel 1 ESV - The word of the LORD that came to Joel, - Bible …
The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: An Invasion of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in …
Joel 1 NVI - Esta es la palabra del SEñOR que vino - Bible Gateway
Esta es la palabra del SEñOR que vino a Joel, hijo de Petuel. La invasión de langostas - ¡Oigan esto, ancianos del pueblo! ¡Presten atención, habitantes todos del país!
JOEL 1 NKJV - The Locust Plague in Judah - Bible Gateway
The Locust Plague in Judah - The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. The Land Laid Waste - Hear this, you elders, And give ear, all you inhabitants of the land! Has …
Joel 1 CSB - The word of the LORD that came to Joel - Bible Gateway
The word of the LORD that came to Joel son of Pethuel: A Plague of Locusts - Hear this, you elders; listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your days …
Joel 1 NASB - The Devastation by Locusts - Bible Gateway
The Devastation by Locusts - The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel: Hear this, you elders, And listen, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this happened in your …
Joel 2 NIV - An Army of Locusts - Blow the trumpet - Bible Gateway
Joel 2:19 Or Lord will be jealous … / and take pity … / 19 The Lord will reply; Joel 2:25 The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain. Joel 2:32 In …
