This "story" had been on our local news for two days and not once did anyone ever mention anything about the "liquid" in the airplane seat. I couldn't make heads nor tails of what the flap was all about. Couldn't Victoria have just put a magazine down and "sat on it" like anybody else?
I don't like her, never have--she looks cheap and comes off as kind of dumb. I barely tolerate Joel and used to watch him once in a while, but got extremely turned off to the whole Lakewood "thing" when they took over The Summit.
For some unknown reason, all our local TV stations featured the move, renovation and "grand opening" as a news story (they had to have traffic diverted on the freeway), with extended segments at 4, 5, 6 & 10PM, night after night, and in-depth features on Joel and the church and the facility, on and on, ad nauseum.
No other church has ever, ever gotten anything like this kind of coverage. It was beyond bizarre and I refused to watch it. Can you imagine if one business of some kind had been singled out for that type of (high-$$) news coverage? It just doesn't happen.
It's also true that Joel DOES preach everything the message upthread said about getting preferential treatment and how God does very special things just for him -- and maybe for you, too, if you just listen to Joel. Even the parking spots and the big expensive house. Poor me, I'm not Joel, so I'm stuck with considerably less than Joel's abundance. Does that mean God doesn't love me?
And what I really, really, really don't understand is why couldn't they go skiing in January? Why on Christmas? That's unfathomable. The church is closed on Christmas Sunday? It's mind-boggling.
At least it's "just" Vail, not Aspen. LOL. There's just something so wrong about all of it and I do see symptoms of "too-big-for-one's-britches" syndrome on the part of at least Mrs. Osteen. Gets it from her mother-in-law. Ugh.
Well my son has the INSP channel on to catch the Christmas movies so being I am the one who changes the channel per his being a quad he sometimes will listen to the Preachers as I work caring for him to get from one Movie to the Next or perhaps Mark Lowry will come on.
So I hear tidbits of sermons and I must say I have heard what my heart needs to hear as I have been grieving the loss of my best friend Kolbe our canine working Lab.
I see your point. Having Olsteen in your area is like a salvage ship wrecking company from another country wanting to come into our non industrial other than fishing bay that is my back yard and want to salvage the Navy MothBall fleet and sell the scraps to China who we hear want to use the stuff to build up their arsonals. All funded by a plan from Congress with our tax money. NO THANKS.