Joel Osteen Podcast - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I have been listening to you and your wife on my podcast for over 2years now, every single morning! If I miss a morning for some odd reason, I don’t function right without hearing your words about positive encouragement and recognizing what our Lord God and our Savior has done for us! You encourage me and inspire me every day to remember the almighty blessings that have been provided. I’m awaiting patiently for the many gifts God has in store for us! You help me with my Faith to be stronger during our troubles and to make me see how Blessed we really are ! I can’t thank you enough and God Bless you even more for the outreach you do to so many! One of my dreams … that will happen is for me my husband and my three children to come to your service there in Texas! We are in the Bible Belt of Tennessee, but you are the belt that wraps my heart around the word of our Heavenly Father all the way from Texas! Thank you so much!

Call it what you want , Joel Osteen gives a positive message in an anecdotal / relatable to life type of way week after week. He has inspired me to get others to listen to his message for years , and I will always continue to support his message. Nobody is perfect. Not even Joel Osteen. But these messages are perfect for people in need of hope , love , and support. Joel Osteen saved me from wanting something more from religion and spirituality. He allowed me to find my own version of happiness and strength and to inspire others to find the same. He is my hero. And I cannot thank him enough.

Every time I listen to Joel Osteen I feel better. He manages to talk in a way that encourages regardless of your state of mind. I love all of the examples from life stories and his way of presenting and explaining the Bible. I learn something new every time but most importantly I feel hopeful. I am so grateful for this podcast as I can listen to it every day ( and I do! ) and constantly feed my mind and soul with inspiring and healing thoughts.

I felt led to start listening to Joel’s podcast about 8-9 months ago and I have missed very few since that time. I take 30mins every day, usually at night, to listen to the podcast. It has been the inspiration I’ve needed to keep putting one foot in front of the other during this time in my life where I feel like everything is being shaken and rearranged. It’s been exciting, and scary, all at once - this podcast has been exactly what I’ve needed to help keep me grounded in the word of God, as well as a daily reminder that God is in control.

Please do your research on the prosperity gospel. Even gotquestions.org warns about this guy specifically. These podcasts are deceptive, as they twist the message of the Bible to make it seem like Christianity is all about riches on earth, which is wrong. The Bible clearly warns us to stay away from such false teachers. Christianity is about eternal significance, no matter what we experience in this world. The messages told in these podcast take our focus off of the eternal and place it on the world. Now, God has the ability to give us blessings, which we should be grateful for. However, receiving those blessings are not the final goal of Christianity. Rather, they should only propel us to move forward in the direction God is showing us to be His will. For Joel Osteen, prosperity and the receiving of blessings is what he believes to be the final goal of Christianity, which is evident in how he lives his life and what he teaches. His messages are geared towards deceiving people to believe that Christianity should be about earthly riches, and that living a Christian life is easy and that all your problems will vanish. This is not true, as Jesus clearly taught otherwise. Of course, the messages in these podcasts are more appealing to people, which is why Joel Osteen has had great success. His messages leave out all the harder facts about Christianity that we don’t like to hear but are necessary for living a life fully dedicated to the Lord. This is exactly the intention of the prosperity gospel movement. Christianity is about living the life God has purposely planned for you, and to grow the kingdom of God. However, to do so, we must fill our minds with sound teaching, which is not found in this podcast

Love Joel, but these pods are very repetitive... They keep getting recycled, so we hear the same jokes and same stories, over and over. It would really be great if they could be replaced with some new, fresh ones, new jokes, and new stories, other than about the Compact Center, etc. Thanks