You might too.

Stephen Jones - Introduction: Horror in 1997

David J. Schow - Dying Words
Conrad Williams - The Windmill
John Burke - The Right Ending
Simon Clark - Swallowing a Dirty Seed
Pat Cadigan - This Is Your Life (Repressed Memory Remix)
Christopher Fowler - Christmas Forever
Yvonne Navarro - Four Famines Ago
Stephen Laws - The Crawl
David Langford - Serpent Eggs
Dennis Etchison - No One You Know
Brian Hodge - The Dripping of Sundered Wineskins
Thomas Ligotti - The Bells Will Sound Forever
Ramsey Campbell - The Word
Andy Duncan - The Map to the Homes of the Stars
Caitlin R. Kiernan - Emptiness Spoke Eloquent
Michael Marshall Smith - Save As...
Kim Newman - Coppola’s Dracula
Gwyneth Jones - Grazing the Long Acre
Douglas E. Winter - The Zombies of Madison County

Stephen Jones & Kim Newman - Necrology: 1997

Thanks to Alan Frackelton for providing the table of contents!

The idea is to:

1. Start with your church's mission statement
2. Identify key clusters of Biblical direction for each segment of that mission
3. Create a resource page for each cluster of Biblical direction
4. Let people figure out for themselves (or with a group) when, how, and what they need to work on next with Jesus 

For example, my church's mission statement is to "connect in life-changing relationship with Jesus, church family, and people who don't know Jesus."   Key clusters of Biblical direction under the first part of our mission (life-change with Jesus) would include prayer, confession, and worship, as well as a handful of others.  We would then create a resource page on prayer covering Biblical teaching (Lord's Prayer, Hezekiah's Prayer, Paul's Prayers, etc...), exercises & activities (practicing thankfulness, experiencing solitude, etc...), links (International House of Prayer), self-assessments, and book recommendations (Brother Lawrence) that may help someone achieve a vibrant prayer life as part of their life-change with Jesus. 

People might choose work on the prayer piece for this season of life to develop "life-change with Jesus," or they might choose confession, or maybe something else.  People might feel stuck and choose to utilize the resource page, or they might have a clear call from God and not need any additional input.  People might pursue maturity on their own, or they might find support in a group setting. 

The important part is that disciples of Jesus are always choosing to work on something, that what they choose to work on incorporates a comprehensive picture of Biblical direction (not avoiding the stuff they don't want to change), and that they understand Biblical direction and personal growth in Jesus alongside their local church.  

Gateway Church has provided a foundational example of what I'm talking about in their Ways of Christ Resources.  After working through an 80-page individual guide to the ways of Christ, participants set quarterly goals with the help of a self-assessment tool, and turn to the resource website as needed.  For those wishing to do this with another individual or a group, Gateway lists some simple "Running Partner" ground rules and discussion questions to be used each time they meet (recommended no less than monthly).

For a review of the Root48 discipleship discussion in its entirety, click here.

John Elliot - The Blood Goes Round
John Burke - Casualty
Avery Taylor - Death of a Ghost
George Mackay Brown - The Drowned Rose
Richard Davis - Elsie and Agnes
L.P. Hartley - Fall in at the Double
Ernest Corbyn - Girl Who Looked Like Barby
Shelley Smith - I'll Wait For You
Kit Pedler - Image in Capsule

Rosemary Timperley - The Sixth Ghost Book: Book Two (Pan Books, 1972)

Elizabeth Fancett - The Judas Joke
James Turner - ...no one ever comes here in winter
Rosemary Timperley - Rachel and Simon
John Hynam - Restless Lady
Joan Aiken - The Sale of Midsummer
Ronald Blythe - The Shadows of the Living
Winifred Wilkinson - The Singer
Maggie Ross - The Soldier
Paul Tabori - The Swinging Ghost
Jean Stubbs - The Walking Shadow

Thanks to Alan Frackelton for providing the contents and cover scans!

Frederick Bradnum - The Questionable Child
George Mackay Brown - Sara
John Burke - Flitting Tenant
Michael Butler - Qwert
Ernest Corbyn - Alfredo, Maria and Me
Dorothy Eden - Madonna Lilies
John Elliot - Locked On
Elizabeth Fancett - Balance of Power
John Ginger - Fences
L.P. Hartley - The Sound of Voices
Dorothy K. Haynes - The Derelict Track
John Hynam - The White Eyes of the Little Grey God
Kit Pedler - The Long Term Residents
Maggie Ross - Knight of the Papal Order of the Golden Spur
Shelley Smith - A Thing Possessed
Jean Stubbs - A Difficult Man
William Trevor - The Only Story
James Turner - Fly Away Home
Winifred Wilkinson - The Aunts

Thanks to Alan Frackelton for providing the contents and cover scan!

]]> http://panhorrors.wordpress.com/?p=83 Sat, 31 May 2008 07:38:00 +0000 demonik http://panhorrors.wordpress.com/?p=83 Rosemary Timperley -  The Eighth Ghost Book (Pan Books, 1974)

Frederick Bradnum - The Feet of Clay
George Mackay Brown - The Interrogator
John Burke - The Loiterers
John Elliot - The Family
L.P. Hartley - Mrs G. G
Dorothy K. Haynes - The Man Who Went Too Far
John Hynam - A Legion Marching By
Kit Pedler - Terence and the Unholy Father
Maggie Ross - The Search for Carloff
Richard Selmer - The Terrible Stone of Chalcombe Manor
Jean Stubbs - Someone Dear to Me
Rosemary Timperley - Walk on the Water
William Trevor - The Love of a Good Woman
James Turner - An Ordered Sequence of Events
Denys Val Baker - The Visitation
Angus Wolfe Murray - The Homecoming

Thanks to Alan Frackelton for providing the contents and cover scan!

]]> http://panhorrors.wordpress.com/?p=82 Sat, 31 May 2008 07:33:34 +0000 demonik http://panhorrors.wordpress.com/?p=82 Rosemary Timperley -  The Ninth Ghost Book (Pan Books, 1975)

Gilbert Phelps - Who Were You With Last Night?
Christopher Hood - The White Citroen
Kit Pedler - White Caucasian Male
Maggie Ross - When the Music's Over Turn Out the Lights
Richard Selmer - The Violet Lady
L.P. Hartley - The Stain on the Chair
Kay Batchelor - The Spirit was Willing
Rosemary Timperley - Sister Varden
John Hynam - One for My Baby
James Turner - Love Me Love My Car
Jean Stubbs - Jarvey's Kingdoms
William Trevor - George and Alice and Isabel
John Burke - False Harmonic
Giles Gordon - Crampton Manor
John Moat - Chope's Retreat
George Mackay Brown - Brig-o-Dread

Thanks to Alan Frackelton for providing the contents and cover scan!

]]> http://jonathanignacio.wordpress.com/?p=472 Fri, 23 May 2008 22:30:18 +0000 jbignacio http://jonathanignacio.wordpress.com/?p=472

Ed Stetzer has pointed out that the interviews from the Whiteboard Sessions are available on video at YouTube.  He will be posting the interviews on his blog with more commentary in the near future.

Strategy + Ministry:

The Whiteboard Sessions is about the power of an idea in its raw, most conceptual form. One simple idea could forever change your life and ministry.  We’ve invited 8 of the most inspiring leaders in ministry to share one compelling idea in just 30 minutes each. They come from different ministry circles and use a variety of methods, but they all have one thing in common: a love for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a desire to see lost people reached. You will be stretched by their thinking and challenged by their insights. The very idea you resist could be the key to God’s future for you. Who knows, you might even find confirmation for the dream God’s already revealed to you. But whatever the reaction, one thing is certain: you will never be the same.

- God asks, "Am I enough?"

- We have an addiction to self.

- Good religious people addicted to self crucified Jesus.

- Stay connected to Christ.

- Stay connected, fruit happens.

- Teach people to stay connected to Christ.

- Spiritual listening.

- Teach people to hear.

"Live your life in a moment by moment conversation with God where you listen to His voice and follow His lead."

Supportive content:

• If everything you do fails, is Jesus enough for you?
• We must drink from the pool of Jesus.
• Walk by the Spirit - moment by moment.
• Live in the Spirit and our mindset is on the things of the Spirit.
• We must stay connected to the Spirit - moment by moment.
• 60/60 = every moment of everyday in contact with God and doing what He says.
• God alone changes people when they are willing.
• Create the environment and God will grow His children.

First up is news of the Internal Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA) world summit which is going to be held in Park City, Utah and is scheduled for June 18th-21st, the summit will be organised around three themes:
1. Building a Mountain Biking Community
2. Managing Mountain Biking
3. Mountain Biking's Value Proposition

and will host a world-class schedule of events including 30 educational seminars from top-notch experts, and guided riding opportunities on sweet singletrack. Headliners include Trek president John Burke; legendary Australian trailmeister Glen Jacobs; Dafydd Davis, pioneer of the United Kingdom's first purpose-built mountain bike trails at Coed y Brenin, Wales; and Vancouver's Jay Hoots, urban bike park architect of great renown.

Get their if you can.

And secondly I wanted to bring you news of the Ohio Mountain Bike Association's all-new trail guide that contains information on just about every mountain bike trail in Ohio. Information included in the trail guide includes trail conditions, location, description, and more! It uses Wiki technology so anyone can add their comments and recommendations to the site. All you have to do is sign in with the same username and password you use on the OMBA forum to get started.

Wicked stuff!

Norseland Community, originally uploaded by minnemom.

Located on north side of Hwy 22, in United Farmers Co-op parking area, Norseland, Minnesota.

I will use Nexus as my church and share what we want our congregation to be as a part of Christ's Church:

First, we believe that Jesus is the Son of God, He lived a life of Love and healing in order that he could love us further by dying to bring us into salvation with God the Father. Jesus is the reason and the purpose of Nexus. We aim to imitate him, to best bring people in our context to Him.

We at Nexus feel we have been called to show God's Love to the poor, and as a Church, to be among them, serving them. We feel that members of our congregation should be ministers to those around them. We believe as Burke and Ward that if our theology debates do not help to heal a broken and hurting world, than they are quite useless. With that in mind we try to hold onto a theology that is relevant and meaningful to the hurting around us. I think that many of us would agree that if we are not aiding in bringing healing to the world than we are useless and we have no business calling ourselves a Church. Our main concern is to bring Life to a sick and dying world.

One way that we seek to do this is through community. Our Church has strong community with each other, we spend much of our time together, eating, resting, studying God's Word, working, worshiping, praying. We encourage each member to become active in planning and leading our worship services, or our small group studies. We are even beginning a small community home soon (with strong warnings from our parents and spending much time in prayer and meditation.) But community among ourselves is not our only goal. We have recently started a ministry designed to help us meet and see those who live in our neighborhood. We are hoping that we may get to know the people better and be provided with opportunities to care for them.

As a new Church made up of young Christians, we definitely hold to the humility aspect of the emerging Church. There are too many questions that our conclusion is “I don' t know.” We are becoming okay with that fact and we pray that our efforts will be blessed by God and will glorify Him despite all of our imperfections.

Mars Hill also values community, but it is less important in relation to the theology of Scripture. Each member of the community is expected to become an active member of the Body of Christ and to pick up responsibilities in the Church. However, community does not play such a large role as in C.o.t.A. when it comes to interpreting Scripture. Driscol holds Scripture much higher than community to the point that his sermon is broadcasted to every campus and unless you fit a very tight understanding of Scripture you are not allowed a leadership role in his church. This is a bit unnerving to me. It is as if Mark is saying “I am right, you are therefore, wrong.” It is hard for me to accept this almost cult-like idea of one (not Christ) head of their congregation. I cannot accept that one interpretation is better than all others, and most in the emerging Church will probably agree. This is one reason why Mark has chosen to no longer consider himself a member of the Emerging Church Movement.

Anthony Burgess - A Pair of Gloves
Richard Chopping - The Eagle
Martin Waddell - Whisper
William Sansom - From the Water Junction
Adobe James - The Road to Mictlantecutli
Elizabeth Walter - The Sin-Eater
Mariana Villa-Gilbert - The Green Boy
Shamus Frazer - The Tune in Dan’s Café
H. Macallister - "D’You Like Me, Saunders?"
John Burke - The Lost Child

Thanks to Nightreader of Vault for the cover scan and contents

Vault's Lie Ten Nights Awake thread

]]> http://lifebrook.wordpress.com/?p=115 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:12:12 +0000 Mick Turner http://lifebrook.wordpress.com/?p=115 No longer can we afford to stand on the cliffs high above the cultural mudslide, chastising people for not climbing out of the mess to come up to higher ground. No longer can we feel content throwing our heroic lifelines of propositions intended to save. No longer can we idly sit by, bemoaning change and wishing to turn to clock back to nostalgic days gone by.

No, it's time for Christian leaders, tethered to the lifeline of God's Spirit and community of faith, to gather up courage and plunge into the swirling mess of cultural flow. Just as Paul said he did in Corinth, we too must "try to find common ground with everyone so that [we] might bring them to Christ." We must emulate the God who dove right into the sewer of life himself in the body of Jesus. And we must awaken his dream - God's dream of swimming this rescue mission on earth through a new Body - the Body of his Church - Christ's Body re-presented.....This must be the first priority for leadership in a post-Christian world: making the invisible Body visible.

John Burke

(from No Perfect People Allowed)

Two things happened last week to quietly kick off the presidential transition effort that will be in high gear come November.  First, President Bush released his FY 2009 budget, which includes a $9 million funding request for the General Services Administration to operate the transition process. 

Second, the Republicans now have a presumptive candidate, Senator John McCain, who can now start to quietly build a transition effort in the coming months, if he has not already.

But what does this entail? 

It means effective pre-election planning for the 77-day post-election transition period.  Some academics, including Martha Kumar, describe the post-election transition period as a “freight train.”  Actions include:  picking top White House staff – not cabinet officials – first; avoiding any constraining commitments; learning from outgoing predecessors; creating a decision-making process for policy and personnel sections; and developing a strategic agenda for policy proposals.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll summarize the existing public records on presidential transitions, starting with the 1976 transition for President-elect Jimmy Carter.  The most descriptive reference is a 2000 book by John P. Burke, “Presidential Transitions: From Politics to Practice,” which he followed with an addendum on the George W. Bush transition.  There are also several other presidential transition efforts that some think tanks developed, as well.  I’ll conclude with a summary of some of the “lessons learned” which the campaigns, and ultimately the President-elect’s team, may find helpful. 

Any insights you might have are encouraged!

This show covers some of the BLC highlights for me;

• Seeing friends
• Hearing about the health of the industry
• Learning about advocacy
• Getting energized to do good

It was my first time at the BLC, but hopefully not my last. Looking forward to being a part of change.

Show links; (let me know if I forgot anything)

• Masiguy blog BLC post
• Trek's One World, Two Wheels

Thanks for listening and thanks for waiting so patiently between recordings.

Tim

Listen here- 23:09. Subscribe here.

The story begins with Anita and Bert going to visit Harold Gaynor. HG wants Anita to raise a very old corpse, which will require a human sacrifice. Anita says no and even Bert the Greedy draws the line at a human sacrifice.

Then Anita gets a call from Dolph. A family has been mutilated and eaten, by what no one knew. Anita thinks it's a zombie but doesn't really understand how it's possible for a couple of reasons: 1) they don't eat, let alone humans and 2) they usually stay near a grave and this zombie is far away from a cemetary. They try to figure out who could have done it and Anita comes up with several names: Manny Rodriguez (her friend), Peter Burke (who is dead), herself and Dominga Salvador, the local vaudun priestess. She gets Manny to arrange a meeting with DS.

At their meeting, DS assesses Anita's skills and wonders why Anita wasn't a vaundun priestess. DS agrees to help them if Anita submits to some "tests." Anita agrees but at one point she ticks off DS and so, DS sends 2 zombies to try to kill her. They come into her apartment while she is sleeping and she shoots them to bits. Well, her and some police the neighbors were kind enough to call when they heard shots.

Gaynor continues to harass Anita - or rather to send his man Bruno and Tommy to do it. She still says no to raising that corpse since it requires a human sacrifice.

There isn't much Jean-Claude in this story. He pops up nearly incidentally.

There are more murders and we meet Detective Clive Perry. Also in this book is Charles and Jameson, both fellow animators who work with Anita. Oh, and Irving. I can't remember if Irving was in the first book. Irving is a werewolf and a reporter. He keeps his werewolf-ness quiet because of discrimination. He gets an interview with JC which makes him happy as a clam to have an exclusive interview with the Master of the City.

In the end, Anita has to kill two men because they are about to kill someone else. When she does that, she has enough power to call all the dead in the cemetary where they are. They kill the men, kill HG and kill DS.

These books are funny sometimes and I meant to find this one funny bit to put here just in case someone else actually reads this but I've lost it, more's the pity. You'll just have to take my word for it. Or read them yourself. That would work as well.

1st Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
2nd Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
3rd Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
4th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
5th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
6th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
7th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories
8th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Ghost Stories

Ric Alexander (Peter Haining)

The Unexplained

Dave Allen

A Little Night Reading

Anonymous

Black Tales
A Century Of Creepy Stories
Mysteries: A Classic Collection
Chamber Of Horrors
Evening Standard Book Of Strange Stories
Evening Standard Second Book Of Strange Stories
Tales From Beyond The Grave
Tales Of The Dead
Tales Of The Supernatural
Times Anthology Of Ghost Stories

Mike Ashley

Weird Legacies
Mammoth Book Of Short Horror Novels

Lady Cynthia Asquith

The Ghost Book
Shudders
The Black Cap
When Churchyards Yawn
Second Ghost Book
The Third Ghost Book

Denys Val Baker

Haunted Cornwall
Stories Of The Macabre
Stories Of The Night
Stories of Horror and Suspense
Stories of The Occult
Stories of the Supernatural
Stories of Fear
Cornish Ghost Stories
Ghosts in Country Houses
When Churchyards Yawn
Stories of Haunted Inns
Ghosts in Country Villages
Phantom Lovers
Haunted Travellers

Chris Baldick

The Oxford Book Of Gothic Tales

Christine Barnard

Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
2nd Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
3rd Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories
4th Fontana Book Of Great Horror Stories

Charles Birkin

Creeps
Shudders
Shivers
Horrors
Terrors
Quakes
Nightmares
Monsters
Panics
Powers Of Darkness
The Creeps Omnibus
Thrills
Tales Of Fear
Tales Of Death
Tales Of Dread

Tandem Book Of Ghost Stories
Tandem Book Of Horror Stories

Angus Black

The Devil's Coven

Charles Black

The Black Book Of Horror
The 2nd Black Book Of Horror
The 3rd Black Book Of Horror

David Blair

Gothic Short Stories

Marjorie Bowen

Great Tales Of Horror

Randolph C. Bull

Perturbed Spirits
Upon The Midnight: An Anthology Of Ghost And Horror Stories
John Burke

Tales Of Unease
More Tales Of Unease
New Tales Of Unease

Cover photography: Chris Yates

These tales are not about ghosts: not really, not ghosts pure and simple. They are not crime stories, or gruesome stories: well .... not All of them. They tell of ordinary people in an everyday world, people you may know, people you may recognize.

So what is there to be uneasy about?

Rosemary Timperley - Double Wedding
Miles Tripp - Commuter
George Mackay Brown - Two Horses, Rose And Terror
Barry Sutton - Jane Howard, Where Are You Now?
Elizabeth Walter - The Hollies And The Ivy
Stephen Meadows - It Had Happened Before
Charles Eric Maine - Joe Three Eyes
Jay Gilbert - Out Of Reason
Philip Evans - Tale-Telling
Peter Collins - Absence Without Leave
R. M. Stephenson - Janet
Michael Cornish - Mr. Gupta's Marionettes
R. Andrew Hall - Autumn's Dream
Keith Turner - Little Jimmy
Brian Morse - About Ghosts
John Burke - And Cannot Come Again

Third and final book in the series.

Elizabeth Walter - The Hollies And The Ivy: Gus and Judith Pentecost move into The Hollies, previously owned by old Mrs. Dyer whose husband vanished, presumed murdered by wife although no body was ever recovered. From the first, Gus fights a losing battle versus the unruly ivy which clings to the walls and taps on the windows at night. Come Christmas, and they're entombed by the fist-thick roots. Another cracker for the Vegetation! thread.

Miles Tripp - Commuter: For forty years, Sidney Hinds reflects, he's commuted to his dull job analysing unemployment figures before returning home to his joyless marriage. But today the station is deserted, the train doesn't arrive, and so he has no option but to return home and be nagged by Mabel for getting "under her feet" .... just as he has every day for years since he took an axe to her. Today, in a rare moment of clarity, Sidney realises he's no reason to stay at the gloomy bungalow any longer, so he has a last hack at the corpse, packs some provisions and sets up camp in the waiting room of the obsolete station. When two youths break in, he defends his property entirely oblivious to the express train belting along the rails ...

Stephen Meadows - It Had Happened Before: Short-short. Another bitter marriage with every day, every excuse for a conversation a repetition of one that has gone before. Husband takes out the iron and creeps up on wife as she's watching TV.

Philip Evans - Tale-Telling: Contract killer in the confessional box. The previous night he committed his first murder for non-financial gain, shooting a beautiful woman he'd just picked up and made love to, Rosa Selvaggio, and he can't explain why. He's even more at a loss as to why she merely laughed as bullet after bullet sank into her without having any effect whatsoever. She appears behind her killer in the box, as does the Priest. He's mighty odd, too.

More on Vault of Evil NewTales Of Unease thread

Thanks to Jerrylad of Vault Of Evil for kindly providing me with a copy of this book!

Andrea Newman – She’ll be Company for You
Herbert Harris – The Escort
Virginia Ironside – The Young Squire
Miles Tripp - Snow
John Christopher – A Cry of Children
Arnost Lustig - The Beginning and the End
Jeffry Scott - He Said I Could
John Brummer – Speech is Silver
Stewart Farrar – The Girl in Question
Christine Hickman – So Dark the Rose
Alexander Walton – Clegson’s Folly
Elizabeth Lemarchand – Time to be Going
Penelope Wallace – Tell David…
Alex Hamilton – The Flies on the Wall
Victor Lucas – Here Comes a Candle
R. Andrew Hall – Split Image
E. C. Tubb – Little Girl Lost
Michael Cornish – They’ll Have to Go
Alan C. Jenkins – The Blind Man
Stephen Meadows – Frances
Arthur Sellings – Jukebox
John Burke – Be our Guest

Thanks to blackmonk of Vault for providing the coverscan and details of this one.

D'Arcy Niland - The Sound and the Silence
R.A. Hall - The Other Woman
Andrea Newman - Such a Good Idea
Penelope Mortimer - The Skylight
John Christopher - Rendezvous
Christine Brooke-Rose - Red Rubber Gloves
Michael Cornish - Superstitious Ignorance
B.S. Johnson - Sheela-Na-Gig
Joan Fleming - Gone is Gone
Brian Aldiss - A Pleasure Shared
Jack Griffith - Black Goddess
John Kippax - Reflection of the Truth
Charles Eric Maine - Short Circuit
John Marsh - The Appointment
Cressida Lindsay - Watch Your Step
Paul Tabori - Janus
Marten Cumberland - The Voice
Kate Barlay - A Mistake of Creation
Jeffry Scott - Out of the Country
Alex Hamilton - End of the Road
Dell Shannon - The Practical Joke

Joan Fleming - Gone is Gone: The ghostly voice of Clowd over the telephone shortly after his funeral is too much for the scheming Comfort to take. For years he's hated the man who was his partner in the antique shop because he would always outsmart him. Now, just as he's about to cheat Clowd's wife out of her estate, Comfort is turned over again - by a gramophone record.

Andrea Newman - Such A Good Idea: The narrator locks her husband in his study on a whim, wondering how long it will take him to realise. The situation escalates from the moment he does ....

Dell Shannon - The Practical Joke: Griffith's has written a book scoffing at all things supernatural, and his friends decide to put his scepticism to the test. When the quiet Welshman takes a holiday cottage in a remote Somerset village, they rope in some locals to give him the full Blair Witch Project experience, unaware that the place is only empty in the first place due to its previous owner being an old creep who got his kicks from torturing small animals.See the Vault Of Evil Tales Of Unease thread.

My thanks to Peter C. for his kindness in providing me with a copy of this book.