Some of you may have noticed that I have removed my previous post regarding Joel Osteen. After careful consideration and much prayerful contemplation I am no longer convinced that such perspectives have a place in my ministry. While I still have serious reservations about Joel Osteen's doctrine and message I do not believe that public attack, in any form, on someone who is potentially a brother in Christ is honoring to God or advances the cause of Christ.

I conclude this issue with Colossians 2:8 "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ."

The responsibility for discerning truth from falsity is yours! Thus I leave it in the hands of each individual and trust that we all, by God's grace, will seek after sound doctrine and resist what our 'itching' ears want to hear.