Each year in Preaching Magazine Al Mohler lists his "top 10 books every preacher should read." Here's the new list for 2008:
1. Preach the Word: Essays on Expository Preaching: In Honor of R. Kent Hughes, edited by Leland Ryken and Todd Wilson
2. Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics: Foundations and Principles of Evangelical Biblical Interpretation, by Graeme Goldsworthy (IVP Academic)
3. Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception, by John MacArthur (Thomas Nelson)
4. A City Upon a Hill: How Sermons Changed the Course of American History, by Larry Witham (HarperOne)
5. Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution, by Steve Jeffery, Michael Ovey, and Andrew Sach (Crossway)
6. Renewing Minds: Serving Church and Society Through Christian Higher Education, by David S. Dockery (B&H Academic)
7. After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion, by Robert Wuthnow (Princeton)
8. God’s Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America, by E. Brooks Holifield (Eerdmans)
9. Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, edited by D. A. Carson and G. K. Beale (Baker Academic)
10. Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, edited by Donald K. McKim (IVP Academic
