hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> the people who spend their live s scanning the night skies are jumping for joy over the latest discovery. a black hole discovered in a galaxy far, far away. it took eight telescopes to track it down and get a picture. mark strassmann has a story from the smithsonian air and space museum in washington. >> reporter: black holes are the most powerful vacuum in the universe. they inhale everything, even light, for eternity. but as menacing as they seem, until now, they've been invisible. this scene from "interstellar" was thought to be the most realistic depiction of a black hole. >> it's all blackn out hollywood's fantasy was close to reality. >> when we saw this come into focus, our jaws dropped. >> reporter: he leads an international team of scientists that revealed this image. it's a cosmic first. visual proof of th

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hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.pired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> one of america's favorite superhereofo os celebrated his 80th birthday saturday. batman. >> i want you to tell all of your friends about me. >> who are you? >> i'm batman. >> reporter: one of the most iconic characters in comic book history is celebrating the milestone. 80 years ago that man made his first appearance in texas book comics 87. it came out march 30th, 1989. and a multibillion industry -- >> he's had a huge impact often omovies, televisions, video games, toys, roller coasters. i think there's probably batman fruit snacks. >> trrts the work of of artist bob kane, commissioned by d.c. to create a superhero to build on the sux ses of. >> man. the cape crusader also had a double life. bruise wayne by day matman by day. frors he picked opside kick, roben the wonder. and both were going to go on the scene. the 1960

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hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.ou'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> we end tonight in the west texas desert where dreams sometimes come true. >> reporter: the stars at night are big and bright in marpa, texas. for these girls the fun starts when the sun goes down the sky lights up. >> the big dipper. >> reporter: what else e? >> a bunch of sparkling beautiful lights. >> stars and moon. >> reporter: culet, ashley e sharlau, mad sng, and mable,er all 10 and 11 years old decided to aim for the stars and enter a nation wide science contest. their teammate, the martha martians. >> ying women can do things like that too. >> reporter: if they won, their experiment woulded be performed on the international space station by real astronotes. but winning seemed like a long shot. more than 23,000 students were participating, many in high school. >> i was trying to prepare them for not goi

hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.ou'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> we end here tonight with some wonderful news about a little girl we first met last year. she is alive and home, thanks to a first of its kind surgery and a remarkable recovery. >> hi, baby! >> reporter: i'vy finn spent th first six months of her life inside a hospital, after being the first to undergo an experimental surgery while she was still in the womb. it was her only chance of survival after an ultrasound revealed ivy had hypoplastic heart syndrome. she also had intact atrial septum where blood backs up and damages the lungs, worsening her case. when we first met her parents, rachel and jeff they were overjoyed ivy could even be delivered. >> really, she has exceeded expectations in every way. >> reporter: now she is going home. >> bye, thank you so much! thank you. >> reporter: the family marked a miles

hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> we end here tonight with a history lesson, no textbook required. the teachers lined up some american heroes to help out. here is carter evans. >> one more. do one more. >> reporter: around here, u.s. history teacher john corona is a celebrity of sort. >> hi, ron. how are you? ♪ >> reporter: every year for the last two decades, he brings military veterans to martin luther king high in riverside, california. >> this is my 17th visit. >> oh, wow! >> reporter: so they can tell their stories to his students. >> it's one thing to hear me lecture about it. it's another to read about it. when you sit down with somebody who lived it, it puts a whole new perspective on this for students. >> it was a happy heart, and now it's a happy life. >> walking in today, i think i was a little anxious about how the conversation w

hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >> from the braid cast center in new york city, i'm david begna irks d. . >>> a terror attack on easter sunday. eight explosions sclee laungau. hundreds of people are are de dead . >>> also tonight a leader of a right wing militia group have been arrested. er the his group allegedly detained migrants in mass. >>> police shoot a wumening near yale university. >>> prayers that note notre dame will rise again as christians celebrate jesus's resurrection. >>> a man in robes is saving souls.

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hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.l be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. (dad) this ice cream cake needs a freezer. (mom) freezer's full. (vo) only frigidaire's custom flex temp drawer can switch from fridge to freezer. (son) nice save! (vo) that's using your frigidaire. >>> there is a young girl in arkansas who is able to grant anybody three wishes. steve hartman found her and her magic on the road. >> reporter: at a nursing home in northwest arkansas, we found a gem named ruby. 11-year-old ruby chitsy likes to go to work with her mom. amanda is a nurse who travels to several nursing homes in the area. and it was on one of those visits that ruby started going up to residents with her note d notepad. >> if you could have any three things, any three things, what would they be? >> what would you want. >> reporter: she came this idea, these questions? >> yes. >> reporter: with the intention o

hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.l be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >>> have you ever considered levering everything behind and going to live on a remote island away from it all? >>> on san francisco bay an isolated island presented an unusual job opportunity, living and working in a victorian lighthouse. >> i can't think off a country in the world we didn't get applications from. >> reporter: tom buck was in charge off replacing rogers who had been working here for two years. >> i think this epitmizes this for people. there's a need to step back -- >> reporter: but it's not exactly laid back. it's actually a bed and breakfast inn. jillian and cha do everything from running the boat to cooking and serving meals. >> this is where we spend most of us day is cooking and cleaning in the kitchen. it's c >> reporter: this lighthouse is now considered a treasure. but at one time the coast gu

. >> joel osteen got so big, he bought the building where the houston rockets played. if you are thinking evaporate i seen this go badly before? remember jim and tammy fay bakker? >> make a pledge of $5-00. >> he was indicted for wire fraud and he changed his ways and can be found selling meal buckets for the rapture. >> we have been doing what god spoke to me in prison would happen. the last days are coming. >> it has been put on steroids and church leaders are rolling in the profits. to be clear, that's profits with an i. churches with the magnitude wield a lot of power. spiritually and financially and politically. to find out what they are doing with the power, i'm going to mega churches in dallas, texas. dallas is the birth place of the mega church. 200 in texas, dallas is the buckle of the bible belt and the most powerful churches in the country. it's sunday morning outside of dallas and i'm a tenlding fellowship church. >> mega churches have become a pretty new expression in the last couple of decades. they don't want it to look tra digszal. >> i invited my bay a

of megachurches because my only idea of what a megachurch was was the ones we see on team with joel osteenlet's watch. >> as a comedian, i look at this, part of this as performance. you had two shows today. >> no doubt it's performance. and i'm not scared of saying we're entertaining, because if you look at the gospels, i could argue that jesus entertained. what's the word entertainment? it means to capture and hold someone's attention for an extended period of time. i hope we don't come off, you know, to some people slick, polished, i hope not. i don't want it to be. >> i think people who do not feel invited into the church, one of the things they see when they see a church like that is why is that where they're spending all that money? >> i covered that my whole life. >> what did you learn there? >> he's very rich. according to google, he's worth $11 million. >> whoa. >> my question is, you know, why would you want your preacher to be that rich? and there's different ways to megachurches, and some megachurches like the cathedral of hope where there's at lgbtq friendly church where he doe

the face of christianity is sort of the joel osteen version of church.ttle bit agnostic, you can tell where he is voting and what he is thinking about. love the sinner but not the sin kind of thing, or however he puts it. then there is the cathedral of hope which is very lgbtq plus, and dr. freddie haynes who is pushing the legacy of martin luther king jr. forward. if we made those the face of christianity, we'd be fine. but that's not generally what the face of christianity is. >> kamau bell, it's a great series. i'll be watching. "a new season of "unite shades of america slow only here on cnn. thank you so much for joining us tonight. "ac 360" starts right now. >>> good evening. and do you suppose when senator joe biden lost his bid for the democratic national nomination back in 1998, he took comfort in the notion that he'd get another chance more than three decades later? today he is a former senator, a two-time vice president and a favorite right now who is holding a fundraiser in his bid for the united states. we are breaking news on how his entry i

the face of christianity right now but specifically a style of mega churches, franklin graham, joel osteenven model of church that as we talk about in the episode the pastor says it feels more like a rock concert than a motivational speech and sometimes the message gets perverted to do things and vote for people who jesus would not vote for, as i would say. we actually look at several different mega churches, there's a church called cathedral of hope, an lgbtq plus church, he'd have a lot to say about how gay people need to repent and a megachurch host led by pastor haynes doing the mlk version of church and social justice. >> it's really amazing and your take on it always is what i always wait for. great to see you, kamal. thanks so much for joining me, everybody. "inside politics with john king jgs star starts right now. >>> welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing a busy news day with us. the american economy growing at 3.2% in the first quarter. there are some warning signs on the horizon, but those numbers better than expected and a big boost to the president

victoria osteen, see henry husband joel osteen minister to millions on tv as co-pastors of america'sntional." please welcome victoria. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> you couldn't hear. we were playing "ain't no mountain high enough." that is what you are about. you tell people and i love this, you begin with saying, live this truth today, you are exceptional. you really want people to know that and believe that. >> i want people to know that because they are exceptional. every one is exceptional. unique on their own journey but sometimes we feel ordinary. we feel common and that's why this message of being exceptional is so important. just because you're exceptional doesn't mean everything is going to be perfect. but knowing you're exceptional can help you overcome challenges. >> you have seven principles that you say that can help us be encouraged and empowered. all of them are important, of course, but what one stands out to you. >> i really feel like that when we understand who we are and whose we are. >> whose we are. >> we get our identity from that and not our identity from soci

[music] [music] >> joel osteen: well, god bless you.ome into your homes and if you're ever in our area, please stop by and be a part of one of our services. i promise you we'll make you feel right at home. but i like to start with something funny, and i heard about this old country farmer. he was taking his nephew camping for the first time. his nephew had five degrees, was one of the smartest men alive. they set up their tent and quickly fell asleep. the middle of the night, the farmer woke up his nephew and said, "look up.

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