For that reason, churchgoers love to see their preachers thrive as living embodiments of their own message. The promise of the prosperity gospel is that it has found a formula that guarantees that God always blesses the righteous with health, wealth and happiness. He is a wealthy man who unapologetically preaches that God has blessed him, with the added bonus that God can bless anyone else, too. From aerial views of his jaw-dropping mansion to the cut of his navy suits, he always looks like a man with a good reason to be smiling. Joel Osteen represents the Christian 1 percent. ^ "Osteen's Wife Cleared in Assault Suit".^ "Osteen family leaves plane after dispute – FBI agent says the pastor's wife didn't follow a flight attendant's instructions".^ "Passengers Back Osteen, Say They Saw No Assault".^ a b "Jury Finds Pastor Did Not Assault a Flight Attendant".
"Joel Osteen's Kids & Family: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". ^ McCaugherty, Stephen (11 April 2020).^ "Love Your Life: Living Happy, Healthy, and Whole"."Victoria Osteen responds to critics: 'I did not mean to imply that we don't worship God' ". ^ H magazine article Archived October 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.^ "The Untold Truth about Joel Osteen's Wife, Victoria Osteen".A Houston jury sided with Osteen, with the foreman calling the lawsuit a waste of time, clearing her of civil liability in August 2008. The FAA fined Osteen $3,000, and the flight attendant, Sharon Brown, subsequently filed a civil suit against Osteen, seeking $405,000 in damages. In December 2005, on a Continental Airlines flight from Houston to Vail, a flight attendant accused Osteen of shoving her after a request was made about liquid on her armrest this claim was disputed by witnesses. On April 4, 1987, Victoria Osteen (née Iloff) married Joel Osteen, with whom she would later become co-pastors of Lakewood Church. Her five-year agreement with Simon & Schuster covers 13 books for children, including a Bible. In January 2009, Osteen released children’s books published by Simon & Schuster's Little Simon imprint. With 750,000 copies, the initial printing of Love Your Life was one of the largest by any US publisher in 2008. It debuted at number 2 on the New York Times Bestsellers list. Osteen’s first book, entitled Love Your Life: Living Happy, Healthy, and Whole ( ISBN 978-0743296984) was published by Simon & Schuster and released for sale on October 14, 2008. She has been accused of promoting self-interested materialistic idolatry contrary to the teachings of Jesus. She also supports the organizations Feed the Children and The Bridge, a shelter for battered women. Her other activities include a regular feature on Houston radio station 89.3 KSBJ. Her part of the service can be seen on a one-hour program broadcast on the Daystar Television Network and through a live Internet feed.
Osteen founded the Lakewood Church Women’s Ministry in 2003, where she currently serves as co-pastor. It was while working in the jewelry store that she met Joel Osteen in 1985 when he came in to buy a new watch battery. Osteen attended (though did not graduate from) the University of Houston where she studied psychology while working in her mother’s jewelry business.
Growing up, Osteen attended a nearby Church of Christ, a relatively conservative church, where her mother, Georgine Iloff, taught Sunday school and her father served as a deacon. She grew up in a southeastern suburb of Houston, near the Manned Spacecraft Center (now known as the Johnson Space Center). In 1963, at the age of two, Osteen moved with her family to Houston, Texas, when her father took a position with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA). She lived near Marshall Space Flight Center where her father, Donald Iloff – a mathematician with General Electric – was a member of GE’s Saturn rocket project team led by German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. Victoria Iloff was born on March 28, 1961, in Huntsville, Alabama. She is the wife of Joel Osteen and the daughter-in-law of John Osteen. Victoria Osteen (née Iloff born March 28, 1961) is an American author and the co-pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.
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