The blog of Sterling Franklin (DJ Sterf), servant of Jesus Christ.

Thursday, February 07, 2008

Old Man vs. New Man

New Cross Allegiance video, done by Chris Fowler, with music from Sonstruck. I edited this tonight, and I'm really psyched about how it turned out.



(Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0EOFjVIiOo )

So watch that. Pretty sweet. This one is more of an edification video. I'm also finishing up one on Jonah, so that should be out in a few days.

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Pulse Outreach - Day Two Performance



Going into Day Two

On Monday night, we had stayed with a very generous family who owned a Subway as well as a 4,000-acre farm. Yes...4,000. They told me about a combiner, and I didn't know what it was since I'm more urban than the average North Dakotan. I asked if it could harvest souls, and some people actually said yes. We went to Pizza Corner for lunch. It was semi-delicious.

So we crammed into a 15-passenger van half full of luggage and went from Valley City State University to Jamestown College. It was about a 35 minute drive, and we took the next three hours to set up. Set-up was always exhausting throughout the week. The bands had a trailer and a SUV full of stuff. Dang. I had my laptop, DDR pad, and suitcase full of clothes. haha I am so high-maintenance. Here's a random picture of me pointing...

Tuesday Night

After setting up, we did sound-checks, me usually last. I tried to warm up on Tuesday a little bit better, but my legs were still frazzled from Sunday and Monday, so they tightened up pretty badly on the third song. There's nothing like lactic acid build-up. Yikes.

The songs I played were as follows:
(1) Hyperactif (a really technical and gimmicky 11), on which I got all Perfects.
(2) Anthem (109 on Mungyodance 2), which was fun. I like the song and stepchart combo.
(3) BabyBlue, which was an encore song. My legs really tightened up toward the end of the song in the end run, but I still did pretty well.

Hybrid Soul opened with a worship set this time, which was great. SonStruck closed the show with their own music. SonStruck's music is already pretty worship-geared, though. I really liked touring with those guys. They are a set of really solid and serious brothers in Christ.

Nick Hall preached a message about the 'Big Buts' of Christianity --
I'd go to church, but...
I'd tell people about Jesus, but...
I'd serve God fully, but...

Pretty good challenge, eh? What excuses do you have that are keeping you from glorifying God in all things?

My message was about glorifying God in all we do as well as giving glory where glory is due! Much was based in Colossians 3, Matthew 25, Psalm 103, etc. See the video for specifics.

And indeed, better is one day in His courts than thousands elsewhere (cf. Psalm 84:10).

There's absolutely nothing like seeking and serving God. Why settle for less? Jesus loves you.

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