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I am so excited for my friend Rev. Tony Miller, Senior Pastor of the Compass Christian Baptist Church in Hephzibah, GA., and his congregation for celebrating their 8 year Anniversary of their church. Our church band a long with myself have been invited to be their guests in this incredible celebration and we couldn't be more honored. I have thought all week long about how SUPERNATURAL VISION is

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Man, I am so thankful for an amazing weekend. This weekend was our Annual Friend Day Weekend. We had 2 services a Saturday night 6:00 service and a Sunday morning 11:00 service and both were great. Everyone really responded well by inviting friends and family... We had 85 in attendance on Saturday night and 117 people in attendance on Sunday morning which brought the total for the weekend to

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We have been in our OC Kids Expansion project for some time now. The work has progressed very slowly over the last several months. Well we made a decision that we wanted the new Kids church room done by our Friend Day Services this weekend. So we began a month long process that has us just days away form when the doors are supposed to open for the first time. The last week has been insane...I

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I love a great story. I love to tell great stories and I love to hear great stories. My family has always been filled with great story-tellers. I just love stories. I love the feeling you get when you are listening to great story and you feel captivated by what's happening in this story that you are listening to almost so much that you forget where you are, what you are doing and you even

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I was telling my wife a few weeks ago while we were riding in the car that something has happened to me over the last few months... I said, "I feel like I have fallen in love with the Old Testament all over again..." I was thinking about that statement that I said to her and begin to wonder why that was, what was going on in my life that would cause that, why was I getting so much from my Old

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We started a new series at Oasis last Sunday that is going to be really, really good... We're calling it "7", and we are focusing on the 7 Deadly Sins, each week we are taking one of the Seven Deadly Sins and talking about them from a biblical perspective and how they creep their way into our lives.Sunday we started with GREED. I was so challenged in my study time because I was reminded that

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We did our first water give-away this past Saturday. We had over 25 volunteers volunteer their day to give free water to people. We gave away over 65 cases of bottled of water, that's over 1500 bottles of water. We were at four different locations. It was a great day just showing some love to our community...This is what blew my mind. It amazed me how many people did not want the water, even

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I remember saying when the iPad first came out. "That is so silly, who would actually need one of those, you might as well buy a Laptop..."Well, it's amazing how you will change your mind. I must say I am guilty of changing my mind. I have purchased an iPad2, and I am loving it.It's amazing how you have to eat your words sometimes...Technology grows on ya...

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Last night we had a great Dream Team meeting and I thought I would share the Leadership Challenge on the blog, so here it is...Leadership Challenge: Courageous LeadershipCourageous leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and slowly die inside.5 Expressions of Courage That Often Elude Young Leaders:01> The courage to challenge the

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Man, I am really enjoying this book.  I am being challenged and pushed and I feel like my passion for excellence has become even greater, if that's possible, since starting this book.  I am not finished yet, but even in the beginning of the book I was happy to read that "having IT" has nothing to do with style of music or preaching, or modern or traditional churches or denominational affiliation.

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Well, it has most definitely been a while since I last posted.  A lot has happened since then.  Jessica and I have had a baby... Just Kidding, it hasn't been that long.Oasis Church is growing and we are seeing more and more people get plugged into a ministry or serving team.  Being downtown in our new facility has really opened the door for us to be able to minister to people who come in off the

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Glad to see this happening...Enage Conference Promo from Jason Isaacs on Vimeo.

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Funerals are absolutely no fun.  They are hard for everyone involved.  The family is devastated, the friends are sad.  And the Pastor is trying everything he can do to make sure this person's life is honored while also trying to bring comfort to the family while also trying to challenge people to think on eternity and give them the opportunity to make a change in their life.Today I have the sad

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This past Sunday we had the Grand Opening of Oasis Church @ 716 Broad St. our very first permanent facility, or at least temporarily permanent. It's been a crazy 5 weeks...5 weeks ago, 2 days before our lease ended with the Richmond County Board of Education, I received an email that had our new lease renewal attached to it. I opened the attachment and was floored to find out that the BOE was

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Josh Update:I have been getting loads of calls and text messages and FB comments asking about Josh.  SO, I am going to update my bloge when I get new news on him.Currently:Monday they were going to take Josh off the ventilator and let him go, but the Doctors came back and said that he was keeping his Blood Pressure up on his own with no medication.  His white blood count was better and the

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In Genesis 2:18 the bible says..."The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."We know the rest of the story.You know what I love?  I love the fact that God knew.  He knew that man could not do it alone, he couldn't do life alone, he couldn't do anything alone.  One thing I know is, "God was so stinkin right!"  God knew I could not do life

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There is a question we all have asked and probably will ask many times throughout the rest of our time on this earth.  That question is "WHY"?  We all have asked God that question.  Whether it is because you have been blessed in some way that you didn't or don't deserve, or it is because something has happened to you or someone you love that you don't understand and don't like.  There have been

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Awesome News!!Oasis Church is moving to downtown Augusta.  We are so pumped to be moving into our very first building that we can call home.  No more set-up and tear-down.  We will be moving to 716 Broad St.  Our building is right next to the old Miller Theatre between 7th street and 8th street.For the last year we have met at Tobacco Road Elementary School and we have seen God do some great

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I am really excited about our service tomorrow...We are closing out our series "2010", taking about servanthood.  I love talking about things that I am personally passionate about.We are also having a business meeting following the service.  We have a lot of great stuff to talk about concerning the future of Oasis.  I'm excited!!

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One of my kids that's really a grown man is in the hospital...I say one of my kids because he was in my youth group in LaGrange.  My friend Josh is in the hospital so if you pray, then pray for him that God will heal him and that the doctors and nurses will use wisdom and that God will guide their hands as they work on him.Josh is a great guy and God has an amazing plan for his life.  I can't

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Yesterday at Oasis we were talking about Worship and how so much about worship is about the way you live your life...I believe that with all of my heart.  I believe that just as we worship by extending our outward expressions of adoration and love to God whether it be by lifting our hands or weeping or singing or kneeling, we also worship by the way we live.  The choices we make, the things we

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I was reading an article on espn.com the other day with Bill Simmons and Malcom Gladwell and the article was pretty much a series of email exchanges between the two. (You can read the article HERE). It was very entertaining and interesting, I didn't know Gladwell was such a sports fan. As many know he is a Best-Selling Author ("The Tipping Point, "Outliers" among others). I have enjoyed

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I love Christmas... I love everything about it.  I just can't help it.  I love to walk through the mall and hear songs about Jesus being played.  I love giving presents, I love getting presents.  I love putting up a tree, I love being with family, I love seeing my son Tyler's face when he opens presents, but mostly I love that God loved me so much that He would send His only Son to this world to

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A couple months ago we started doing a new bulletin specifically designed for the series that we are in...  The idea came from Stevens Creek Church (check them out HERE) and Genesis Church (check them out HERE)...This is the bulletin for our December series...What do you think?Outside... (it folds...)Inside...

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Here is the video we showed before our very first baptism at Oasis Church.  An amazing family and it was a great day.  It was cool to get to celebrate how amazing our God is with these guys and with our church...Baptism Video from Wesley Weatherford on Vimeo.

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Tonight I went and visited my friend Gracie in the hospital.  She is 6 years old and a Type 1 Diabetic.  Her parents Larry & Kelly are in our Small Group and every time we have prayer she always requests that we pray for her to be healed of her diabetes.  She has an abundance of faith and it overflows out of her.  As I visited with Gracie and her parents tonight I saw her lying there in the

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Last night when I was getting in the bed Tyler was in our bed and I moved his pillow and he said in his sleep, "Hey that's my pillow..."  It was so funny!  I got in the bed and was talking to Jessica and he said with his eyes closed, "be quiet, I sleeping..."  Again so funny...I laid there thinking that I am so blessed to have Jessica and Tyler in my life.  They both bring so much joy to my life.

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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. - Warren G. BennisI want to dissect this real quick for you but mostly for me...What type of Leadership has the capacity to Translate Vision Into Reality?I think it takes a lot of different elements to take a really awesome God vision and translate that into reality.1.) Tenacity- being unwilling to give up on the vision no matter what

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I was reading some stuff from Perry Noble they other day and saw this and was challenged... I pray that I am a Secure Leader and that I am becoming the Leader that God wants me to be.  This is good stuff!10 Signs of a Secure Leader:#1 – Realizes he has nothing to prove!#2 – Works for the applause of heaven and not for the applause of men.#3 – Seeks God for direction instead of merely asking Him

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So first let me say I am sorry for my lapse in blogging (to all 3 of my readers - one being my wife)... I have no good excuses so I want bore you with attempts, but much apologies!!I am making a new and fresh commitment to 'The BLOG".  I will start this week with this post, and I commit to Blog at least on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays and hopefully more...  I expect all 3 of my readers to hold

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It's been a while since I have blogged... My Bad!!I am JACKED about Friend Day at Oasis this Sunday at 11am...It's going to be a great day... Hoping everybody is Inviting their friends...

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I know this sounds funny... But I love Fantasy Football!!!  And it's almost here... I usually play in a couple of leagues with some friends mostly from LaGrange... So I am excited about the Fantasy Football Season, as silly as that may sound!!!

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Been thinking about this word this week... IMITATION... What is it to truly Imitate something, and is that good or bad?  Is it something that we all do?  Is there something in us that causes each of us to Imitate someone or something?  What or Who do we Imitate?  How does that affect the rest of our life?  How does it affect the people in our life?  How does it affect our children?  Does our

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I am about to leave the house to go and get ready for service and I find myself excited and hopeful... Excited about what I get to do today, excited about the people who will come and will be changed by the perfect love of an amazing God... Hopeful that God will use and anoint a regular old mess-up like me, hopeful that God will take His word and make it life to our people today, hopeful for a

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I got on the floor with Tyler tonight, and he looked up at me and said..."You play with me Daddy... You play with my trains..."As we were playing I said, "Tyler I love you, do you love me, and he said, Mommy loves me and You love me"...My heart melted, you wonder if your children know that you love them, you know that they will never know until they have one of their own, but you wonder in your

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Man, I am really excited about the fall.  I believe we have some good things in place to really create some momentum for our church plant.  God has really been blessing us with new people, and we believe more are on the way.  We have done some radio advertising and seen some results from that, our first Billboard just went up yesterday, "it looks great" (big thank you to Greg Robertson over at

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I am jacked about our new website (brought to you by creative juice graphic design) and my blog as well...I've had trouble in the past with the blogging because of some technical difficulties and the design of the last blog, but now we are good to go...  Thanks for checking out the site and the blog...I would love to hear some feedback on the website... Leave a comment and tell me what you think.

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