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How many celebrities do you think are good role model? who who are you happy for your children to be exposed to. >> my daughter loves taylor swift. >> loves bono. hes a great example of using his gifts. hes built something great. now hes helping others. i like people like that. the other thing thats important, i talked to our children all the time what you put in will come out of you. its so important. you have your whole future. you got all of me, my granddaddy and victoria. theres no reason yo...

Thats the american dream. anyone can achieve anything if you work hard enough. >> i believe thats true. especially with gods blessings you can go even further. again, i think its important to go back to this so we dont leave it on us. how can we bless others. how we can help those or fans. how can we build childrens homes. >> how much money have you raised for other people, now? >> our churches have raised millions. >> do you know how much? >> no. >> how much have we given away? millions of doll...

Theres no reason you cant do great things with your life. but its about our choices. >> one of the moral mazes is homosexuality and theres been lots of coverage in the news recently about dont-ask, dont-tell campaign obviously. whats your view because it seems to change depending on the interview ive read or seen. is homosexuality a sin. >> scripture shows its a sin. im not one of those out there to bash homosexuals and tell them they are terrible people. there are other sins in the bible too. s...

Of -- >> so the most shocking said youve ever said from the pulpit is when you declared to your congregation you are going to go out and buy victoria secrets underwear for your boyfriends or wives. joel, have you been drinking today? >> that was when i was a lot younger. ive matured since then. i think the context of the message -- i think that was six, seven years ago. i think i was talking about how relationships with husbands and wives and how wives dont look good for everybody else, look goo...

>> isnt it easy to say natural youre loaded. most of your parishioners, the people in the congregation dont have this kind of money. is there a contradiction there between saying god wants us to be rich if youre the only rich guy standing there? >> again i dont say that. i say god wants us to be blessed. if anything its an example to me if god did it for us -- i was working at a church where are you going to make the kind of fund. if god did it for us he can do it for you. its important because ...

Through our books. >> how many books how far sold. >> 20 million. thats all the by product. >> these? >> a lot of those. >> how many dvds? >> i dont know. >> do you know how much youre worth? >> i never dwell on it. i never even dwell on it. >> can we dwell on it now? >> wouldnt know the figures. >> you got an immaculate suit on, well cut shirt. dazzling outfit you have on. >> well i think one thing, you said, piers, it is true, we dont have to apologize for gods blessing. money is not the focus...

Do different things and hes pretty routine. he is comfortable in his routine. so those are things that we kind of -- >> so the most shocking said youve ever said from the pulpit is when you declared to your congregation you are going to go out and buy victoria secrets underwear for your boyfriends or wives. joel, have you been drinking today? >> that was when i was a lot younger. ive matured since then. i think the context of the message -- i think that was six, seven years ago. i think i was ta...

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Raised for other people, now? >> our churches have raised millions. >> do you know how much? >> no. >> how much have we given away? millions of dollars. personally weve given away millions of dollars too. i want to get off on this is you can -- you can work hard in america thats what its about. but dont neglect your family. were not saying run after riches. were saying take time for your family. take time for the things that are important. even in this recession, you may be hard up, you may need...

Back off the more violent rhetoric when they whip people up when they get very, very angry and it appears whether they are political figure, commentators, especially on american television a lot of people are too angry. >> well this is just my personal views is i dont like the anger, i dont think that its healthy. you can be passionate and be firm, but i dont like to breed anger in me or anybody else. i like being more passionate but not cross the line. >> dont be violent. >> exactly. >> in a mo...