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After 27 years of marriage, Larry filed for divorce in April 1999. [2] During the divorce, his wife attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary . [ 2 ] Lea's son John started the Life Church in Rockwall , Texas in the same Dallas suburb where Larry and his ex-wife began Church on the Rock in 1980. [ 2 ]
Joel Osteen. Joel Scott Osteen (born March 5, 1963) is an American pastor, televangelist, businessman, and author based in Houston, Texas, United States. Known for his weekly televised services and several best-selling books, Osteen is one of the more prominent figures associated with prosperity theology and the Word of Faith movement. [3][4][5]
Pastor Robert Morris, who founded the 100,000-strong congregation nearly a quarter-century ago and also served as a religious adviser for former president Donald Trump, resigned on June 18, after ...
Lakewood Church is a non-denominational evangelical Christian megachurch located in Houston, Texas. It is among the largest congregations in the United States, averaging about 45,000 attendees per week. [1] The 16,800-seat Lakewood Church building, home to four English-language services and two Spanish-language services per week, [2] is located ...
Robert Tilton (born June 7, 1946) is an American televangelist and the former pastor of the Word of Faith Family Church in Farmers Branch, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.At his ministry's peak in 1991, Tilton's infomercial-style program, Success-N-Life, aired in all 235 American television markets (on a daily basis in the majority of them) and brought in nearly $80 million per year; it was ...
Phineas F. Bresee, (1838–1915), founder of the Church of the Nazarene. Albert Benjamin Simpson, (1843–1919), preacher, writer, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844–1924), was an American healing evangelist. Her ministry style served as a model for Pentecostalism.
Kenneth Max Copeland was born on December 6, 1936, [1] raised in West Texas near a United States Army Air Forces airfield. This inspired him to become a pilot. [2] [3]Copeland was a recording artist on the Imperial Records label, having one Billboard Top 40 hit, "Pledge of Love", which charted in the Top 40 on April 20, 1957, stayed on the charts for 15 weeks, and peaked at No. 17.
Bob Harrington (September 2, 1927 – July 4, 2017) was an American preacher who became one of the leading evangelists of the 1960s and 1970s. Known as the "Chaplain of Bourbon Street", he gained fame through a series of recordings, books, and most notably a series of debates on the existence of God with prominent atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair ...