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'''Joyce Meyer''' (born '''Pauline Joyce Hutchison'''; June 4, 1943) is an [[United States|American]] [[Charismatic Movement|Charismatic]] Christian author and speaker and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Meyer and her husband Dave have four grown children, and live outside [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]]. Her ministry is headquartered near the St. Louis suburb of [[Fenton, Missouri|Fenton]], Missouri.
==Early life==
Meyer was born '''Pauline Joyce Hutchison''' in south St. Louis in 1943. Her father went into the army to fight in [[World War II]] soon after she was born. She has said in interviews that he began [[Child sexual abuse|sexually abusing]] her upon his return, and discusses this experience in her meetings.<ref name="P-D1">{{cite news |title=Meyer traces her fervor to early abuse, alcohol |first1=Bill |last1=Smith |first2=Carolyn |last2=Tuft |url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/1D29266A7F855B2886256DDF00701F8A?OpenDocument |work=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |publisher=[[Pulitzer, Inc.]] |date=November 15, 2003 |accessdate=August 22, 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060127003333/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/1D29266A7F855B2886256DDF00701F8A?OpenDocument |archivedate=January 27, 2006}}</ref> To this day, she speaks with a working-class St. Louis accent.<ref>{{cite book|title=One Last Kiss: The True Story of a Minister's Bodyguard, His Beautiful Mistress, and a Brutal Triple Homicide|last=Cuneo|first=Michael W.|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]|date=2012|page=42}}</ref>
A graduate of [[Gateway High School (St. Louis)|O'Fallon Technical High School]] in St. Louis, she married a part-time car salesman shortly after her senior year of high school. The marriage lasted five years. She maintains that her husband frequently cheated on her and persuaded her to steal payroll checks from her employer. They used the money to go on a vacation to California. She states that she returned the money years later.<ref name="P-D1"/> After her divorce, Meyer frequented local bars before meeting Dave Meyer, an engineering draftsman. They were married on January 7, 1967.
Meyer also reports that she was praying intensely while driving to work one morning in 1976 when she said she heard God call her name. She had been [[Born again (Christianity)|born-again]] at age nine, but her unhappiness drove her deeper into her faith. She says that she came home later that day from a beauty appointment "full of liquid love" and was "drunk with the Spirit of God" that night while at the local bowling alley.<ref name="P-D1"/>
{{quote|text=...I didn't have any knowledge. I didn't go to church. And I had a lot of problems, and I needed somebody to kind of help me along. And I think sometimes even people who want to serve God, if they have got so many problems that they don't think right and they don't act right and they don't behave right, they almost need somebody to take them by the hand and help lead them through the early years...<ref name="CNN">{{cite web | publisher = CNN | work = [[Larry King Live]] | title = Transcript: Interview with Joyce Meyer | date = May 19, 2005 | url = http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0505/19/lkl.01.html}}</ref>}}
Meyer was briefly a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in St. Louis, a congregation of the [[Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod]].<ref name="P-D1"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Meyer's $57 million evangelism empire |first=Heather |last=Cole |url=http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2003/06/23/story2.html |work=St. Louis Business Journal |publisher=[[American City Business Journals]] |date=June 22, 2003}}</ref> She began leading an early-morning [[Bible]] class at a local cafeteria and became active in Life Christian Center, a [[Charismatic Movement|charismatic church]] in Fenton. Within a few years, Meyer was the church's associate pastor. The church became one of the leading charismatic churches in the area, largely because of her popularity as a Bible teacher.<ref name="P-D1"/> She also began airing a daily 15-minute radio broadcast on a St. Louis radio station.
In 1985, Meyer resigned as associate pastor and founded her own ministry, initially called "Life in the Word." She began airing her radio show on six other stations from [[Chicago]] to [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]].
In 1993, her husband Dave suggested that they start a television ministry.<ref name="P-D1"/> Initially airing on [[superstation]] [[WGN-TV]] in Chicago and Black Entertainment Television ([[BET]]), her program, now called ''[[Enjoying Everyday Life]]'', is still on the air today.
In 2002, mainstream publisher [[Hachette Book Group]] paid Meyer over $10 million for the rights to her backlist catalog of independently released books.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/64475-mining-a-rich-backlist-pw-talks-with-joyce-meyer.html | work = Publisher's Weekly | title = Mining a Rich Backlist: PW Talks with Joyce Meyer | date = October 21, 2014}}</ref>
In 2004 St. Louis Christian television station [[KNLC]], operated by the Rev. Larry Rice of New Life Evangelistic Center, dropped Meyer's programming. According to Rice, a longstanding Meyer supporter, Meyer's "excessive lifestyle" and her teachings often going "beyond Scripture" were the impetus for canceling the program.<ref>{{cite news |title=Meyers ministry withdraws program from channel 24 |first=Bill |last=Smith |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=Joyce%20Meyer&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=2004&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=%28%22Joyce%20Meyer%22%29&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:A&xcal_useweights=no |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |publisher=Pulitzer, Inc. |date=January 3, 2004 |accessdate=March 27, 2010}}</ref>
In 2005, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America" ranked Meyer as 17th.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1993235_1993243_1993303,00.html | work = Time | title = 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America | date = February 7, 2005}}</ref>
==Ministry==
Meyer speaks humorously, sharing with her audience her own shortcomings and taking playful jabs at stereotypical church behavior. A particular crowd favorite is the "robot" routine, in which she goes into a stiff-armed imitation of a robot chanting "What about me? What about me?"<ref name="PD-6">{{cite news |title=Money pitch is a hit with followers |first1=Carolyn |last1=Tuft |first2=Bill |last2=Smith |url=http://more.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/e46289239764dd2286256de100245317?OpenDocument |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |publisher=Pulitzer, Inc. |date=November 17, 2003 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011065436/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/story/E46289239764DD2286256DE100245317?OpenDocument |archivedate=October 11, 2007}}</ref>
In 2016, Joyce Meyer's website claimed that she had an earned Phd.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160918111745/http://www.joycemeyer.org/AboutUs/FAQ.aspx</ref> She now states according to Joyce Meyer Ministries, Meyer was presented with an honorary doctoral degree from Life Christian University, an [[higher education accreditation|unaccredited institution]] in [[Tampa, Florida]].<ref name="JMFAQ">{{cite web | url = http://www.joycemeyer.org/AboutUs/faq.aspx | title = FAQ | publisher = Joyce Meyer Ministries | accessdate = July 10, 2017}}</ref> Meyer has been given an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity by [[Oral Roberts University]], an accredited institution in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]].<ref name="JMFAQ"/>
==Salary and finances==
[[File:N7JMatSYD.jpg|thumb|267px|Joyce Meyer used to travel in this [[Bombardier Challenger 600|Canadair Challenger 600S]]; seen here in Sydney, Australia, when she was a 'special guest' at the [[Hillsong Conference]] in July 2005. It has since been replaced by a [[Gulfstream IV|Gulfstream G-IV]] (serial number 1132)]]
Meyer, who owns several homes and travels in a private jet (currently a [[Gulfstream IV|Gulfstream G-IV]]),<ref name="PD-2"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N7JM |title=N-Number Inquiry Results |work=FAA Registry |publisher=[[Federal Aviation Administration]]}} FAA US civil aircraft register inquiry, using "N7JM" as the search parameter. Inquiry conducted August 22, 2013.</ref> has been criticized by some of her peers{{who|date=July 2016}} for living an excessive lifestyle. She responded that she doesn't have to defend her spending habits because "...there's no need for us to apologize for being blessed."<ref name="PD-2">{{cite news |title=From Fenton to fortune in the name of God |first1=Carolyn |last1=Tuft |first2=Bill |last2=Smith |url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/story/C5099399D2FCC5FA86256DDF00661C5F?OpenDocument |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |publisher=Pulitzer, Inc. |date=November 15, 2003 |accessdate=August 22, 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011071211/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/story/C5099399D2FCC5FA86256DDF00661C5F?OpenDocument |archivedate=October 11, 2007}} Part 1 of 4. Related articles are {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011070008/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf?OpenDatabase |date=11 October 2007 }}</ref> Meyer commented, "You can be a businessman here in St. Louis, and people think the more you have, the more wonderful it is...but if you’re a preacher, then all of a sudden it becomes a problem."<ref name="PD-2"/>
In November 2003, the ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]'' published a four-part special report<ref name="PD-2"/> detailing Meyer's "$10 million corporate jet, her husband’s $107,000 silver-gray Mercedes sedan, her $2 million home and houses worth another $2 million for her four children," a $20 million headquarters, furnished with "$5.7 million worth of furniture, artwork, glassware, and the latest equipment and machinery," including a "$30,000 [[malachite]] round table, a $23,000 marble-topped antique commode, a $14,000 custom office bookcase, a $7,000 Stations of the Cross in Dresden porcelain, a $6,300 eagle sculpture on a pedestal, another eagle made of silver bought for $5,000, and numerous paintings purchased for $1,000 to $4,000 each," among many other expensive items – all paid for by the ministry. The articles prompted Wall Watchers<ref name="MinistryWatch"/> (a Christian nonprofit watchdog group) to call on the [[Internal Revenue Service]] (IRS) to investigate Meyer and her family.
Following the adverse publicity about her lifestyle and Ministry Watch's request for an IRS probe, Meyer announced in 2004 plans to take a salary reduction from the $900,000 per year she had been receiving from Joyce Meyer Ministries (in addition to the $450,000 her husband received)<ref>{{cite news |title=To our readers, an apology: |first1=Ellen |last1=Soeteber |first2=Arnie |last2=Robbins |url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/3230A355F7AB972B862570260050AE09?OpenDocument |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |publisher=[[Lee Enterprises]] |date=June 19, 2005 |accessdate=August 22, 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821110035/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/3230A355F7AB972B862570260050AE09?OpenDocument |archivedate=August 21, 2006}}</ref> and instead personally keep more of the royalties from her outside book sales which Meyer had previously donated back to Joyce Meyer Ministries. She now retains royalties on books sold outside the ministry through retail outlets such as [[Walmart]], [[Amazon.com]], and bookstores, while continuing to donate to her ministry royalties from books sold through her conferences, catalogues, website, and television program.<ref>{{cite news
| work = [[Christianity Today]]
| publisher = Christianity Today International
| location = Carol Stream, IL
| title = Joyce Meyer Responds to Critics, Shifts Income Source
| date = January 1, 2004
| first = Corrie | last = Cutrer
| url = http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2004/januaryweb-only/1-19-13.0.html
}}</ref> "The net effect of all of this," notes Ministry Watch,<ref name="MinistryWatch">{{cite web
| url = http://www.ministrywatch.com/profile/Joyce-Meyer.aspx
| title = Joyce Meyer/ JMM/ Enjoying Every Day Life/ Life in the Word
| work = MinistryWatch.com
| publisher = Wall Watchers
| accessdate = April 3, 2010
| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310013527/http://www.ministrywatch.com/profile/Joyce-Meyer.aspx
| archivedate=March 10, 2010
}} Summary report for Joyce Meyer Ministries.</ref> "was most likely a sizable increase in the personal compensation of Joyce Meyer and reduced revenues for JMM." In an article in the ''[[St. Louis Business Journal]]'', Meyer's public relations director, Mark Sutherland, confirmed that her new income would be "way above" her previous levels.<ref>{{cite news |title=Joyce Meyer takes pay cut, releases some financial |first=Heather |last=Cole | url=http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2004/07/12/story8.html |work=St. Louis Business Journal |publisher=American City Business Journals |date=July 9, 2004}}</ref> Joyce Meyer Ministries says it has made a commitment to maintain transparency in financial dealings,<ref name="commitment">{{cite web
| url = http://www.joycemeyer.org/AboutUs/FinancialAccountability.aspx
| title = Financial Accountability
| accessdate = August 23, 2007
| publisher = Joyce Meyer Ministries
}}</ref>
publish their annual reports,<ref name="commitment" /> have a Board majority who are not Meyer relatives<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.joycemeyer.org/AboutUs/BoardMembers.aspx
| title = Board Members
| publisher = Joyce Meyer Ministries
}}</ref> and submit to a voluntary annual audit.<ref name="commitment"/><ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.joycemeyer.org/AnnualReport12/index.aspx
|title = Annual Report 2012
|publisher = Joyce Meyer Ministries
|deadurl = yes
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130811185357/http://joycemeyer.org/AnnualReport12/index.aspx
|archivedate = August 11, 2013
|df = mdy-all
}}</ref> On December 18, 2008, this ministry received a "C" grade (71–80 score) for financial transparency from [[Ministry Watch]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.ministrywatch.com/mw2.1/F_SumRpt.asp?EIN=431382734
|title=Joyce Meyer/ JMM/ Enjoying Every Day Life/ Life in the Word
|work=MinistryWatch.com
|publisher=Wall Watchers
|date=December 18, 2008
|accessdate=August 22, 2013
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107214846/http://www.ministrywatch.com/mw2.1/F_SumRpt.asp?EIN=431382734
|archivedate=January 7, 2009
}} Summary report for Joyce Meyer Ministries. (A January 2013 summary is {{cite web
|url=http://ministrywatch.com/profile/joyce-meyer.aspx
|title=Archived copy
|accessdate=2013-08-22
|deadurl=bot: unknown
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121201013/http://ministrywatch.com/profile/joyce-meyer.aspx
|archivedate=January 21, 2013
|df=
}}.)</ref>
Joyce Meyer Ministries was one of six investigated by the [[United States Senate inquiry into the tax-exempt status of religious organizations]]<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite news
| url = http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/06/cbsnews_investigates/main3462147.shtml
| title = Televangelists Living Like Kings?
| first= Armen |last= Keteyian |authorlink= Armen Keteyian
| work = [[CBS News]]
| publisher = [[CBS]]
| location = New York
| date = November 6, 2007
| accessdate = August 22, 2013
}}</ref><ref name="NPR-Lohr">{{cite news
| url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16860611
| title = Senator Probes Megachurches' Finances
| work = [[NPR]]
| publisher = National Public Radio, Inc.
| location = Washington, D.C.
| date = December 4, 2007
| first = Kathy | last = Lohr
| accessdate = December 10, 2007
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| url = http://media.npr.org/documents/2007/nov/grassley/meyer.pdf
| format = PDF
| title = Letter to David and Joyce Meyer
| work = NPR
| publisher = National Public Radio, Inc.
| location = Washington, D.C.
| date = November 5, 2007
| first = Charles | last = Grassley
| authorlink = Chuck Grassley
| accessdate = December 10, 2007
}}</ref> by Senator [[Chuck Grassley]]. The inquiry sought to determine if Meyer made any personal profit from financial donations, asking for a detailed accounting for such things as cosmetic surgery and foreign bank accounts and citing such expenses as the $23,000 commode mentioned earlier. Grassley also requested that Meyer's ministry make the information available by December 6, 2007. In her November 29 response to Grassley, Meyer notes that the commode is a [[chest of drawers]]. Meyer writes that it was part of a large lot of items totaling $262,000 that were needed to furnish the ministry's {{convert|150000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} headquarters purchased in 2001. She said the commode's price tag was an "errant value" assigned by the selling agent and apologized for "not paying close attention to specific 'assigned values' placed on the pieces."<ref name="NPR-Lohr"/> Joyce Meyer Ministries responded with a newsletter to its e-mail list subscribers on November 9, 2007. The organization referred to its annual financial reports, asserting that, in 2006, the ministry spent 82 percent of its total expenses "for outreach and program services toward reaching people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as attested by independent accounting firm Stanfield & O'Dell, LLP." The message also quoted an October 10, 2007, letter from the Internal Revenue Service which stated, "We determined that you [Joyce Meyer Ministries] continue to qualify as an organization exempt from federal income tax under IRC section 501(c)(3)." The same information was also posted to the ministry website. Joyce Meyer Ministries was one of two ministries to comply with the Senate's requests for financial records. It also made commitments to future financial transparency. Neither party were found to have done any wrongdoing.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40960871/m/videos/ | title = Televangelists escape penalty in Senate inquiry | date = January 7, 2011 | first = Rachel | last = Zoll | agency=[[Associated Press]] | work = [[NBC News]] |publisher = [[NBC]] | location = New York}}</ref>
===ECFA accreditation===
In 2009, Joyce Meyer Ministries received accreditation from the [[Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability]] (ECFA). In an announcement on March 12, 2009, the ECFA said that Joyce Meyer Ministries and [[Oral Roberts University]] had met their requirements of "'responsible stewardship', which involves ministries' financial accountability, transparency, board governance and fund-raising practices."<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.charismamag.com/site-archives/570-news/featured-news/4002-meyer-oru-gain-ecfa-accreditation
| title = Meyer, ORU Gain ECFA Accreditation
| work = [[Charisma (magazine)|Charisma]]
| date = March 13, 2009
| accessdate = August 22, 2013
}}</ref>
==Selected bibliography==
*{{cite book | title=Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing |year=1994 |isbn=0-892-74679-3<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind| year=1995 | isbn=0-446-69109-7<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Me and My Big Mouth: Your Answer is Right Under Your Nose| year=2002 | isbn=0-446-69107-0<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=How to Hear from God: Learn to Know His Voice and Make Right Decisions| year=2003 | isbn=0-446-53256-8<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=The Secret Power of Speaking God's Word| year=2004 | isbn=0-446-57736-7<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=In Pursuit of Peace: 21 Ways to Conquer Anxiety, Fear, and Discontentment| year=2004 | isbn=0-446-53195-2<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Straight Talk: Overcoming Emotional Battles with the Power of God's Word| year=2005 | isbn=0-446-57800-2<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone| year=2005 | isbn=0-446-57772-3<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Look Great, Feel Great: 12 Keys to Enjoying a Healthy Life Now| year=2006 | isbn=0-446-57946-7}}
*{{cite book | title=The Everyday Life Bible: The Power of God's Word for Everyday Living| year=2006 | isbn=0-446-57827-4<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=The Confident Woman: Start Today Living Boldly and Without Fear| year=2007 | isbn=0-446-53198-7<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=[[The Penny (novel)|The Penny: A Novel]] |year=2007 |isbn=0-446-57811-8<!-- | author1=Meyer, Joyce & Deborah Bedford-->}} (by Joyce Meyer and Deborah Bedford)
*{{cite book | title=Woman to Woman: Candid Conversations from Me to You| year=2007 | isbn=0-446-58180-1<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=I Dare You: Embrace Life With Passion| year=2007 | isbn=0-446-53197-9<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk with God about Everything| year=2007 | isbn=0-446-53196-0<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Top 10 Qualities of a Great Leader | year=2007 | isbn=1-57794-913-7<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce & Phil Pringle-->}} (by Joyce Meyer and [[Phil Pringle]])
*{{cite book | title=Conflict Free Living: How to Build Healthy Relationships for Life| year=2008 | isbn=1-59979-062-9<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Start Your New Life Today: An Exciting New Beginning with God| year=2008 | isbn=0-446-50965-5<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=The Secret To True Happiness: Enjoy Today, Embrace Tomorrow| year=2008 | isbn=0-446-53199-5<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Never Give Up!: Relentless Determination to Overcome Life's Challenges| year=2009 | isbn=0-446-58035-X<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Eat the Cookie...Buy the Shoes: Giving Yourself Permission to Lighten Up| year=2010 | isbn=0-446-53864-7<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Power Thoughts: 12 Strategies to Win the Battle| year=2010 | isbn=0-446-58036-8<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You| year=2011 | isbn=0-446-53852-3<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Love Out Loud: Devotions on Loving God, Yourself, and Others| year=2011 | isbn=0-446-53847-7<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Do Yourself a Favor...Forgive: Learn How to Take Control of Your Life Through Forgiveness| year=2012 | isbn=0-446-54727-1<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Change Your Words, Change Your Life: Understanding the Power of Every Word You Speak| year=2012 | isbn=0-446-53857-4<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
==See also==
*[[Prosperity theology]]
*[[Word of Faith]]
==References==
;Notes
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.joycemeyer.org/}}
* {{IMDb name|583218}}
* ''[http://www.joycemeyer.org/ourministries/broadcast/ Enjoying Everyday Life]'' television show at Joyce Meyer Ministries
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'''Joyce Meyer''' (born '''Pauline Joyce Hutchison'''; June 4, 1943) is an [[United States|American]] [[Charismatic Movement|Charismatic]] Christian author and speaker and president of Joyce Meyer Ministries. Meyer and her husband Dave have four grown children, and live outside [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]]. Her ministry is headquartered near the St. Louis suburb of [[Fenton, Missouri|Fenton]], Missouri.
==Early life==
Meyer was born '''Pauline Joyce Hutchison''' in south St. Louis in 1943. Her father went into the army to fight in [[World War II]] soon after she was born. She has said in interviews that he began [[Child sexual abuse|sexually abusing]] her upon his return, and discusses this experience in her meetings.<ref name="P-D1">{{cite news |title=Meyer traces her fervor to early abuse, alcohol |first1=Bill |last1=Smith |first2=Carolyn |last2=Tuft |url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/1D29266A7F855B2886256DDF00701F8A?OpenDocument |work=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |publisher=[[Pulitzer, Inc.]] |date=November 15, 2003 |accessdate=August 22, 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060127003333/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/1D29266A7F855B2886256DDF00701F8A?OpenDocument |archivedate=January 27, 2006}}</ref> To this day, she speaks with a working-class St. Louis accent.<ref>{{cite book|title=One Last Kiss: The True Story of a Minister's Bodyguard, His Beautiful Mistress, and a Brutal Triple Homicide|last=Cuneo|first=Michael W.|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]]|date=2012|page=42}}</ref>
A graduate of [[Gateway High School (St. Louis)|O'Fallon Technical High School]] in St. Louis, she married a part-time car salesman shortly after her senior year of high school. The marriage lasted five years. She maintains that her husband frequently cheated on her and persuaded her to steal payroll checks from her employer. They used the money to go on a vacation to California. She states that she returned the money years later.<ref name="P-D1"/> After her divorce, Meyer frequented local bars before meeting Dave Meyer, an engineering draftsman. They were married on January 7, 1967.
Meyer also reports that she was praying intensely while driving to work one morning in 1976 when she said she heard God call her name. She had been [[Born again (Christianity)|born-again]] at age nine, but her unhappiness drove her deeper into her faith. She says that she came home later that day from a beauty appointment "full of liquid love" and was "drunk with the Spirit of God" that night while at the local bowling alley.<ref name="P-D1"/>
{{quote|text=...I didn't have any knowledge. I didn't go to church. And I had a lot of problems, and I needed somebody to kind of help me along. And I think sometimes even people who want to serve God, if they have got so many problems that they don't think right and they don't act right and they don't behave right, they almost need somebody to take them by the hand and help lead them through the early years...<ref name="CNN">{{cite web | publisher = CNN | work = [[Larry King Live]] | title = Transcript: Interview with Joyce Meyer | date = May 19, 2005 | url = http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0505/19/lkl.01.html}}</ref>}}
Meyer was briefly a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in St. Louis, a congregation of the [[Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod]].<ref name="P-D1"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Meyer's $57 million evangelism empire |first=Heather |last=Cole |url=http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2003/06/23/story2.html |work=St. Louis Business Journal |publisher=[[American City Business Journals]] |date=June 22, 2003}}</ref> She began leading an early-morning [[Bible]] class at a local cafeteria and became active in Life Christian Center, a [[Charismatic Movement|charismatic church]] in Fenton. Within a few years, Meyer was the church's associate pastor. The church became one of the leading charismatic churches in the area, largely because of her popularity as a Bible teacher.<ref name="P-D1"/> She also began airing a daily 15-minute radio broadcast on a St. Louis radio station.
In 1985, Meyer resigned as associate pastor and founded her own ministry, initially called "Life in the Word." She began airing her radio show on six other stations from [[Chicago]] to [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]].
In 1993, her husband Dave suggested that they start a television ministry.<ref name="P-D1"/> Initially airing on [[superstation]] [[WGN-TV]] in Chicago and Black Entertainment Television ([[BET]]), her program, now called ''[[Enjoying Everyday Life]]'', is still on the air today.
In 2002, mainstream publisher [[Hachette Book Group]] paid Meyer over $10 million for the rights to her backlist catalog of independently released books.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/64475-mining-a-rich-backlist-pw-talks-with-joyce-meyer.html | work = Publisher's Weekly | title = Mining a Rich Backlist: PW Talks with Joyce Meyer | date = October 21, 2014}}</ref>
In 2004 St. Louis Christian television station [[KNLC]], operated by the Rev. Larry Rice of New Life Evangelistic Center, dropped Meyer's programming. According to Rice, a longstanding Meyer supporter, Meyer's "excessive lifestyle" and her teachings often going "beyond Scripture" were the impetus for canceling the program.<ref>{{cite news |title=Meyers ministry withdraws program from channel 24 |first=Bill |last=Smith |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=Joyce%20Meyer&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=2004&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=%28%22Joyce%20Meyer%22%29&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:A&xcal_useweights=no |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |publisher=Pulitzer, Inc. |date=January 3, 2004 |accessdate=March 27, 2010}}</ref>
In 2005, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America" ranked Meyer as 17th.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1993235_1993243_1993303,00.html | work = Time | title = 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America | date = February 7, 2005}}</ref>
==Ministry==
Meyer speaks humorously, sharing with her audience her own shortcomings and taking playful jabs at stereotypical church behavior. A particular crowd favorite is the "robot" routine, in which she goes into a stiff-armed imitation of a robot chanting "What about me? What about me?"<ref name="PD-6">{{cite news |title=Money pitch is a hit with followers |first1=Carolyn |last1=Tuft |first2=Bill |last2=Smith |url=http://more.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/e46289239764dd2286256de100245317?OpenDocument |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |publisher=Pulitzer, Inc. |date=November 17, 2003 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011065436/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/story/E46289239764DD2286256DE100245317?OpenDocument |archivedate=October 11, 2007}}</ref>
In 2016, Joyce Meyer's website claimed that she had an earned Phd.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160918111745/http://www.joycemeyer.org/AboutUs/FAQ.aspx</ref> She now states according to Joyce Meyer Ministries, Meyer was presented with an honorary doctoral degree from Life Christian University, an [[higher education accreditation|unaccredited institution]] in [[Tampa, Florida]].<ref name="JMFAQ">{{cite web | url = http://www.joycemeyer.org/AboutUs/faq.aspx | title = FAQ | publisher = Joyce Meyer Ministries | accessdate = July 10, 2017}}</ref> Meyer has been given an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity by [[Oral Roberts University]], an accredited institution in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]].<ref name="JMFAQ"/>
==Salary and finances==
[[File:N7JMatSYD.jpg|thumb|267px|Joyce Meyer used to travel in this [[Bombardier Challenger 600|Canadair Challenger 600S]]; seen here in Sydney, Australia, when she was a 'special guest' at the [[Hillsong Conference]] in July 2005. It has since been replaced by a [[Gulfstream IV|Gulfstream G-IV]] (serial number 1132)]]
Meyer, who owns several homes and travels in a private jet (currently a [[Gulfstream IV|Gulfstream G-IV]]),<ref name="PD-2"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N7JM |title=N-Number Inquiry Results |work=FAA Registry |publisher=[[Federal Aviation Administration]]}} FAA US civil aircraft register inquiry, using "N7JM" as the search parameter. Inquiry conducted August 22, 2013.</ref> has been criticized by some of her peers{{who|date=July 2016}} for living an excessive lifestyle. She responded that she doesn't have to defend her spending habits because "...there's no need for us to apologize for being blessed."<ref name="PD-2">{{cite news |title=From Fenton to fortune in the name of God |first1=Carolyn |last1=Tuft |first2=Bill |last2=Smith |url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/story/C5099399D2FCC5FA86256DDF00661C5F?OpenDocument |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |publisher=Pulitzer, Inc. |date=November 15, 2003 |accessdate=August 22, 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011071211/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/story/C5099399D2FCC5FA86256DDF00661C5F?OpenDocument |archivedate=October 11, 2007}} Part 1 of 4. Related articles are {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011070008/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf?OpenDatabase |date=11 October 2007 }}</ref> Meyer commented, "You can be a businessman here in St. Louis, and people think the more you have, the more wonderful it is...but if you’re a preacher, then all of a sudden it becomes a problem."<ref name="PD-2"/>
In November 2003, the ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]'' published a four-part special report<ref name="PD-2"/> detailing Meyer's "$10 million corporate jet, her husband’s $107,000 silver-gray Mercedes sedan, her $2 million home and houses worth another $2 million for her four children," a $20 million headquarters, furnished with "$5.7 million worth of furniture, artwork, glassware, and the latest equipment and machinery," including a "$30,000 [[malachite]] round table, a $23,000 marble-topped antique commode, a $14,000 custom office bookcase, a $7,000 Stations of the Cross in Dresden porcelain, a $6,300 eagle sculpture on a pedestal, another eagle made of silver bought for $5,000, and numerous paintings purchased for $1,000 to $4,000 each," among many other expensive items – all paid for by the ministry. The articles prompted Wall Watchers<ref name="MinistryWatch"/> (a Christian nonprofit watchdog group) to call on the [[Internal Revenue Service]] (IRS) to investigate Meyer and her family.
Following the adverse publicity about her lifestyle and Ministry Watch's request for an IRS probe, Meyer announced in 2004 plans to take a salary reduction from the $900,000 per year she had been receiving from Joyce Meyer Ministries (in addition to the $450,000 her husband received)<ref>{{cite news |title=To our readers, an apology: |first1=Ellen |last1=Soeteber |first2=Arnie |last2=Robbins |url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/3230A355F7AB972B862570260050AE09?OpenDocument |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |publisher=[[Lee Enterprises]] |date=June 19, 2005 |accessdate=August 22, 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821110035/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/special/joycemeyer.nsf/0/3230A355F7AB972B862570260050AE09?OpenDocument |archivedate=August 21, 2006}}</ref> and instead personally keep more of the royalties from her outside book sales which Meyer had previously donated back to Joyce Meyer Ministries. She now retains royalties on books sold outside the ministry through retail outlets such as [[Walmart]], [[Amazon.com]], and bookstores, while continuing to donate to her ministry royalties from books sold through her conferences, catalogues, website, and television program.<ref>{{cite news
| work = [[Christianity Today]]
| publisher = Christianity Today International
| location = Carol Stream, IL
| title = Joyce Meyer Responds to Critics, Shifts Income Source
| date = January 1, 2004
| first = Corrie | last = Cutrer
| url = http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2004/januaryweb-only/1-19-13.0.html
}}</ref> "The net effect of all of this," notes Ministry Watch,<ref name="MinistryWatch">{{cite web
| url = http://www.ministrywatch.com/profile/Joyce-Meyer.aspx
| title = Joyce Meyer/ JMM/ Enjoying Every Day Life/ Life in the Word
| work = MinistryWatch.com
| publisher = Wall Watchers
| accessdate = April 3, 2010
| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310013527/http://www.ministrywatch.com/profile/Joyce-Meyer.aspx
| archivedate=March 10, 2010
}} Summary report for Joyce Meyer Ministries.</ref> "was most likely a sizable increase in the personal compensation of Joyce Meyer and reduced revenues for JMM." In an article in the ''[[St. Louis Business Journal]]'', Meyer's public relations director, Mark Sutherland, confirmed that her new income would be "way above" her previous levels.<ref>{{cite news |title=Joyce Meyer takes pay cut, releases some financial |first=Heather |last=Cole | url=http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2004/07/12/story8.html |work=St. Louis Business Journal |publisher=American City Business Journals |date=July 9, 2004}}</ref> Joyce Meyer Ministries says it has made a commitment to maintain transparency in financial dealings,<ref name="commitment">{{cite web
| url = http://www.joycemeyer.org/AboutUs/FinancialAccountability.aspx
| title = Financial Accountability
| accessdate = August 23, 2007
| publisher = Joyce Meyer Ministries
}}</ref>
publish their annual reports,<ref name="commitment" /> have a Board majority who are not Meyer relatives<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.joycemeyer.org/AboutUs/BoardMembers.aspx
| title = Board Members
| publisher = Joyce Meyer Ministries
}}</ref> and submit to a voluntary annual audit.<ref name="commitment"/><ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.joycemeyer.org/AnnualReport12/index.aspx
|title = Annual Report 2012
|publisher = Joyce Meyer Ministries
|deadurl = yes
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130811185357/http://joycemeyer.org/AnnualReport12/index.aspx
|archivedate = August 11, 2013
|df = mdy-all
}}</ref> On December 18, 2008, this ministry received a "C" grade (71–80 score) for financial transparency from [[Ministry Watch]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.ministrywatch.com/mw2.1/F_SumRpt.asp?EIN=431382734
|title=Joyce Meyer/ JMM/ Enjoying Every Day Life/ Life in the Word
|work=MinistryWatch.com
|publisher=Wall Watchers
|date=December 18, 2008
|accessdate=August 22, 2013
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107214846/http://www.ministrywatch.com/mw2.1/F_SumRpt.asp?EIN=431382734
|archivedate=January 7, 2009
}} Summary report for Joyce Meyer Ministries. (A January 2013 summary is {{cite web
|url=http://ministrywatch.com/profile/joyce-meyer.aspx
|title=Archived copy
|accessdate=2013-08-22
|deadurl=bot: unknown
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121201013/http://ministrywatch.com/profile/joyce-meyer.aspx
|archivedate=January 21, 2013
|df=
}}.)</ref>
Joyce Meyer Ministries was one of six investigated by the [[United States Senate inquiry into the tax-exempt status of religious organizations]]<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite news
| url = http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/06/cbsnews_investigates/main3462147.shtml
| title = Televangelists Living Like Kings?
| first= Armen |last= Keteyian |authorlink= Armen Keteyian
| work = [[CBS News]]
| publisher = [[CBS]]
| location = New York
| date = November 6, 2007
| accessdate = August 22, 2013
}}</ref><ref name="NPR-Lohr">{{cite news
| url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16860611
| title = Senator Probes Megachurches' Finances
| work = [[NPR]]
| publisher = National Public Radio, Inc.
| location = Washington, D.C.
| date = December 4, 2007
| first = Kathy | last = Lohr
| accessdate = December 10, 2007
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| url = http://media.npr.org/documents/2007/nov/grassley/meyer.pdf
| format = PDF
| title = Letter to David and Joyce Meyer
| work = NPR
| publisher = National Public Radio, Inc.
| location = Washington, D.C.
| date = November 5, 2007
| first = Charles | last = Grassley
| authorlink = Chuck Grassley
| accessdate = December 10, 2007
}}</ref> by Senator [[Chuck Grassley]]. The inquiry sought to determine if Meyer made any personal profit from financial donations, asking for a detailed accounting for such things as cosmetic surgery and foreign bank accounts and citing such expenses as the $23,000 commode mentioned earlier. Grassley also requested that Meyer's ministry make the information available by December 6, 2007. In her November 29 response to Grassley, Meyer notes that the commode is a [[chest of drawers]]. Meyer writes that it was part of a large lot of items totaling $262,000 that were needed to furnish the ministry's {{convert|150000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} headquarters purchased in 2001. She said the commode's price tag was an "errant value" assigned by the selling agent and apologized for "not paying close attention to specific 'assigned values' placed on the pieces."<ref name="NPR-Lohr"/> Joyce Meyer Ministries responded with a newsletter to its e-mail list subscribers on November 9, 2007. The organization referred to its annual financial reports, asserting that, in 2006, the ministry spent 82 percent of its total expenses "for outreach and program services toward reaching people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as attested by independent accounting firm Stanfield & O'Dell, LLP." The message also quoted an October 10, 2007, letter from the Internal Revenue Service which stated, "We determined that you [Joyce Meyer Ministries] continue to qualify as an organization exempt from federal income tax under IRC section 501(c)(3)." The same information was also posted to the ministry website. Joyce Meyer Ministries was one of two ministries to comply with the Senate's requests for financial records. It also made commitments to future financial transparency. Neither party were found to have done any wrongdoing.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40960871/m/videos/ | title = Televangelists escape penalty in Senate inquiry | date = January 7, 2011 | first = Rachel | last = Zoll | agency=[[Associated Press]] | work = [[NBC News]] |publisher = [[NBC]] | location = New York}}</ref>
===ECFA accreditation===
In 2009, Joyce Meyer Ministries received accreditation from the [[Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability]] (ECFA). In an announcement on March 12, 2009, the ECFA said that Joyce Meyer Ministries and [[Oral Roberts University]] had met their requirements of "'responsible stewardship', which involves ministries' financial accountability, transparency, board governance and fund-raising practices."<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.charismamag.com/site-archives/570-news/featured-news/4002-meyer-oru-gain-ecfa-accreditation
| title = Meyer, ORU Gain ECFA Accreditation
| work = [[Charisma (magazine)|Charisma]]
| date = March 13, 2009
| accessdate = August 22, 2013
}}</ref>
==Selected bibliography==
*{{cite book | title=Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing |year=1994 |isbn=0-892-74679-3<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind| year=1995 | isbn=0-446-69109-7<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Me and My Big Mouth: Your Answer is Right Under Your Nose| year=2002 | isbn=0-446-69107-0<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=How to Hear from God: Learn to Know His Voice and Make Right Decisions| year=2003 | isbn=0-446-53256-8<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=The Secret Power of Speaking God's Word| year=2004 | isbn=0-446-57736-7<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=In Pursuit of Peace: 21 Ways to Conquer Anxiety, Fear, and Discontentment| year=2004 | isbn=0-446-53195-2<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Straight Talk: Overcoming Emotional Battles with the Power of God's Word| year=2005 | isbn=0-446-57800-2<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone| year=2005 | isbn=0-446-57772-3<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Look Great, Feel Great: 12 Keys to Enjoying a Healthy Life Now| year=2006 | isbn=0-446-57946-7}}
*{{cite book | title=The Everyday Life Bible: The Power of God's Word for Everyday Living| year=2006 | isbn=0-446-57827-4<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=The Confident Woman: Start Today Living Boldly and Without Fear| year=2007 | isbn=0-446-53198-7<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=[[The Penny (novel)|The Penny: A Novel]] |year=2007 |isbn=0-446-57811-8<!-- | author1=Meyer, Joyce & Deborah Bedford-->}} (by Joyce Meyer and Deborah Bedford)
*{{cite book | title=Woman to Woman: Candid Conversations from Me to You| year=2007 | isbn=0-446-58180-1<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=I Dare You: Embrace Life With Passion| year=2007 | isbn=0-446-53197-9<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk with God about Everything| year=2007 | isbn=0-446-53196-0<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Top 10 Qualities of a Great Leader | year=2007 | isbn=1-57794-913-7<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce & Phil Pringle-->}} (by Joyce Meyer and [[Phil Pringle]])
*{{cite book | title=Conflict Free Living: How to Build Healthy Relationships for Life| year=2008 | isbn=1-59979-062-9<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Start Your New Life Today: An Exciting New Beginning with God| year=2008 | isbn=0-446-50965-5<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=The Secret To True Happiness: Enjoy Today, Embrace Tomorrow| year=2008 | isbn=0-446-53199-5<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Never Give Up!: Relentless Determination to Overcome Life's Challenges| year=2009 | isbn=0-446-58035-X<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Eat the Cookie...Buy the Shoes: Giving Yourself Permission to Lighten Up| year=2010 | isbn=0-446-53864-7<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Power Thoughts: 12 Strategies to Win the Battle| year=2010 | isbn=0-446-58036-8<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You| year=2011 | isbn=0-446-53852-3<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Love Out Loud: Devotions on Loving God, Yourself, and Others| year=2011 | isbn=0-446-53847-7<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Do Yourself a Favor...Forgive: Learn How to Take Control of Your Life Through Forgiveness| year=2012 | isbn=0-446-54727-1<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
*{{cite book | title=Change Your Words, Change Your Life: Understanding the Power of Every Word You Speak| year=2012 | isbn=0-446-53857-4<!-- | author=Meyer, Joyce-->}}
==See also==
*[[Prosperity theology]]
*[[Word of Faith]]
==References==
;Notes
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.joycemeyer.org/}}
* {{IMDb name|583218}}
* ''[http://www.joycemeyer.org/ourministries/broadcast/ Enjoying Everyday Life]'' television show at Joyce Meyer Ministries
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