I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

Former presidential candidate John McCain has described Osteen as "inspirational". In an interview on Fox News in 2008 during the U. Joel Scott Osteen (born March 5 1963) is an American author televangelist and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston Texas.

His ministry reaches over seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in over 100 nations around the world.