Joel Osteen's new book, Become a Better You is reviewed at Challies.com. A little excerpt is worthy of mention here which is pertinent to the issue at hand:This is Osteen’s second book, and the follow-up to his bestselling Your Best
Life Now. Like the previous title, this one features a picture of the smiling
pastor on the front cover and offers seven steps to a better life. Like Your
Best Life Now much of the book follows this format: “The way to ______ is not to
______. Instead, you need to ______. You might say, ‘But Joel, I can’t do ______
and ______.’ I know it’s hard. Rise to the challenge. Don’t let yourself get
beat up or knocked down. God has so much more for you.” And like his previous
book, this one is maddeningly repetitive. It is a handful of his sermonettes for
Christianettes expanded into 380 pages of mind-numbing repetition.
You can read the whole post here. Let us pray for and live in such a way that the truth and glories of the biblical gospel will be made known in the world through us, God's messengers.
Titus 1:9-13 9 holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict. 10 For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 11 who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach, for the sake of sordid gain. 12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons." 13 This testimony is true. For this cause reprove them severely that they may be sound in the faith,
