Joel Osteen

I was watching a few minutes of one of Joel Osteen 's lectures on TV last night. Whether you like him or not you still have to admit he is one of the best public speakers in America. Even though your beliefs might not be aligned with his, what he said about happiness and contentment really struck me. What intrigued me the most is that the essence of his message wasn 't totally religious, even though he explained it in the context of the Bible. "Be happy today" is what he was preaching last night. Since happiness comes from within, being happy is a choice you have to make. This means you must be content with what you have at the moment. He told us to be happy whether we have a luxury car or a beat up Volkswagen. Joel also added that we must…

Introduction One favorite TV Evangelist is Joel Osteen, Pastors Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas engaging over 7million people weekly. He and his wife Victoria are known to have the largest and greatest Protestant church in the United States, feeding the hungry and healing the sick while motivating all. Worship Service After viewing footage of a church service where Pastor Osteen is attempting to provide a worship experience for a postmodern congregation. One would explain that this church is…

The weekend my boyfriend began seeing another woman, I walked into a megachurch for the first time. My girlfriends and I didn’t go to praise Jesus. We went for fun. (I didn’t know about the boyfriend yet.) My two friends, both 20-something journalists like me, were visiting me in Houston, and we considered Lakewood Church — the largest house of worship in the country and home to controversial superstar pastor Joel Osteen — a tourist attraction. We parked in a crowded underground garage and…

but in a different sense. We work for money in which we pay someone else to get our food for us, nowadays many American’s don’t hunt or garden ourselves. We have become very dependent on others for almost everything. Wendell Berry recommends those who live in the city that are not able to farm themselves to “eat responsibly.” He believes that eating is an agricultural act whereas we think of food as an agricultural product; we don’t think of ourselves as a participant in agriculture but simply…

This type of farming understands the use of natural resources/ chain where all the species benefits from each other. In the example of Joel Salatin’s Polyface farm. The Polyface farm was built to feed and produce goods naturally where their use natural resources to raise their animals ”....chicken crap feeds the grass that feeds the cows…… the birds dine on the insects,picking their larvae and parasites out of the animal’s droppings, breaking the cycle of infestations and diseases”(Pollan…

the Deep South take place and based on a true life experience of John Grisham. The novel, like the movie, opens with a very brutal rape scene. It’s the socio-politics that give this film an energetic and confrontational feel of southern racial politics. Racism was still very strong even some 20 years after the civil war (Ponick 2011). Hollywood and John Grisham wanted to make bold statement about racism and they accomplished this in the closing argument of the courtroom scene. The setting for…

Chapter 1: After reading the first chapter I can tell that I 'm going to enjoy this book. The book is set up in an interesting fashion. I like how each story is told in a segment. The author’s tone in the first chapter is interesting. He is talking in a calm tone. This juxtaposes the title of the book because I would think that Slaughterhouse Five would entail a book with extreme violence. He 's telling background about his life in an interesting way, he finds ways to tell the reader specific…

The Trance of The Piano Man “Sing us a song you 're the piano man, sing us a song tonight.” Here I am laying on my cot, listening to my one of my favourite songs. Whatever grievances I was still holding onto now seems like an insignificant speck; whether it be homework, exams or even my social life. The absolutely captivating words of Billy Joel are hypnotic, and before I know it I slowly drift asleep falling under the Piano Man’s trance. I opened my eyes, disoriented and dazed; with no idea…

During my time at New Life Community Development and at the St. John’s Bread and Life Mobile Soup Kitchen, I learned quite a few valuable things. When I first started my academic service learning, I went in with the attitude of getting the job done and leaving. I had no intention of enjoying the experience. Although that changed when I walked into the Mobile Soup Kitchen on a grimy Monday afternoon with a whole line of people waiting outside the truck. I immediately started to prepare for the…

These huge organic farms do not operate like Joel Salatin’s farm. In fact, a spokesman from Grimmway said that they are in the organic industry for the profitability. Unlike Polyface Farms, these large corporations are not bound by the seasons. Instead, they make use of extreme amounts of energy in order to distribute their food around the world: “The combined company now controls seventeen thousand acres across California, enough land that it can, like Earthbound, rotate production up and down…