The current issue of Preaching magazine has Albert Mohler’s annual list of recommended books for pastors. There is a good mix of books here, though I suspect most pastors would take just about the whole year to get through the entire list!

• Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
• Christian Apologetics: Past and Present, Vol. 2 by William Edgar & K. Scott Oliphant
• The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way by Michael Horton
• Historical Theology: An Introduction to Christian Doctrine by Gregg R. Allison
• Lost in Translation: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood by Christian Smith, Kari Christofferson, Hilary Davidson, Patricia Snell Herzog
• A New Testament Biblical Theology: The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New by G.K. Beale
• The Next Decade: Empire and Republic in a Changing World by George Friedman
• The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
• Reading Scripture with the Reformers by Timothy George
• The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion by Rodney Stark