{"id":3263,"date":"2011-06-17T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2014-11-18T16:13:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T00:13:30","slug":"weekly-links-6172011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2011\/06\/17\/weekly-links-6172011\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (6\/17\/2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[When Paton declared his intention to take the gospel to the New Hebrides islands] a Mr. Dickson exploded, &#8220;The cannibals! You will be eaten by cannibals!&#8221; The memory of Williams and Harris on Erromanga was only 19 years old. But to this Paton responded:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honoring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms; and in the Great Day my Resurrection body will rise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer. (HT:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/resource-library\/biographies\/you-will-be-eaten-by-cannibals-lessons-from-the-life-of-john-g-paton\" class=\"broken_link\">John Piper<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since we&#8217;re running out of time before they leave town, I thought this would be an appropriate time to take a quick break and do a missions-themed Weekly Links.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, if you&#8217;re looking for a broad overview of word missions, then there are a few sites you should be aware of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joshuaproject.net\/\">The Joshua Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationworld.org\/\">Operation World<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplegroups.org\/\">People Groups<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And of course, if you&#8217;re looking for a small treasure-trove of missions-related materials, you could do far worse than check out what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/resource-library\/topic-index\/missions\" class=\"broken_link\">John Piper and DG<\/a> have made available.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here&#8217;s a few articles to help you be missions-minded whether you are going, sending, or sent:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/10-ways-to-encourage-a-missionary\/\">10 Ways to Encourage a Missionary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/30-ways-to-stay-alive-to-missions\" class=\"broken_link\">30 Ways to Stay Alive to Missions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevindeyoung\/2010\/05\/08\/wise-words-from-the-mission-field\/\">Wise Words from the Mission Field<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See you Sunday!<\/p>\n<p><em>Pro Rege<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[When Paton declared his intention to take the gospel to the New Hebrides islands] a Mr. Dickson exploded, &#8220;The cannibals! You will be eaten by cannibals!&#8221; The memory of Williams and Harris on Erromanga was only 19 years old. But to this Paton responded: Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9864,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/9864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}