The top posts for last week:

1) A Response to Shai Linne – After being contacted by hip-hop notable Shai Linne regarding his recorded reference to God as ‘the hottest poppa’, 5ptsalt responds. The issue of the character of God is a beneficial discussion between believers.

2) How Not to Study the Bible (video) – A sad, typical and erroneous example of many Bible studies.

3) Brian McLaren Interview: Conversations On Being A Heretic (video)

In this video, Scot McKnight probes the mind of the man who many charge with teaching heresy. Brian McLaren, the man who has openly denied the doctrines of hell and of penal substitution, author of the book A New Kind of Christianity and one of the editors of the horrible – and I mean horrible – The Voice New Testament is given ample opportunity to answer questions he has, to date, never before answered. Will he or won’t he?

4) Spanking Gets A good Report Card – Turns out spanking your children is biblical and beneficial. Amy Henry of Worldmag.com reports on a recent Wall Street Journal article that gives the thumbs up on spanking children. Good for them.

5) The Average Evangelical (video) – Mark Driscoll explains why most modern evangelicals are pagans.

6) Doug Wilson: 3 Reasons For The Federal Vision Controversy

7) Sloppin’ Your Dripper (humor, videos) If you’ve never heard Archie Campbell’s backwards rendition of Cinderella, it’s time you did. Good fun.

8.) Worldly Proposals of Compromise – An interesting look at Pharaoh’s counter-proposals to Moses regarding the release of the sons of Jacob from Egypt. Sounds very familiar, doesn’t it?

9) Is Attending Church A Spectator Event? – “When most Christians think of attending church, they usually think of sitting silently in their pews and observing the ministry of a select and highly privileged few (i.e., the pastor and his ministerial staff). They know that very little is expected of them – the “laity.”

10) My Favorite Bookmark – This continues to be a reader’s favorite. Putting the Ordo Salutis  (order of salvation) on a laminated bookmark. Works for me!

11. Why Study The Atonement? – J. Austin Taylor begins a new blog site dedicated to atonement studies.

12. The Pastor-Teacher: One Calling, One Office – “I do not in any way entertain the idea that I will persuade my brethren who differ from me as regards this gift of pastor-teacher. In fact, it is not my intent today to persuade, but rather to give my reasoning on why I hold the position to be true to the intent of the inspired writer of Ephesians. It really comes down to accepting or rejecting Pastoral authority.”

13) John Newton: ‘More Than A Calvinist’.

Note: The ‘Last Week Highlights’ for 8/15 can be found here.