“Osteen reduces the pursuit of God to ‘lollipops and skipping while singing hymns.’”
Nice quote! “Teacher”, said John, “we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he is not one of us.” “Do not stop him,” Jesus said...
“But Jesus said, Suffer little children, . . ..”
One assumes that we understand that “suffer,” in the archaic Old English language, meant to “allow” or “permit.”
Aside from that, let all rejoice in that brother Joel has been amply rewarded in all relevant material goods, while hoping that he will also be rewarded spiritually, both in the here and now and everlastingly in eternity.