Looking Back at 2025 and Ahead to 2026

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Dec 29, 2025

In this insightful discussion, Steve Atkinson, CEO of BibleProject, reflects on the transformative year of 2025. He shares the exciting new 'One Story That Leads to Jesus' reading plan and the thematic projects inspired by Exodus. The team touches on the broader movement of communities embracing the Bible as a unified narrative. They celebrate a decade of the podcast and preview a major series on the Ten Commandments for 2026. Steve highlights global impacts of their resources and the joy of collaboration with churches worldwide.

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ANECDOTE

From Brick To Book

Natalie wrote that the Bible felt like a brick until BibleProject helped her read it as one unified story.
She finished the Old Testament for the first time at age 24 after using the podcast and videos.

ADVICE

Read With A Guided Plan

Use the new One Story reading plan on YouVersion to read through the Bible with videos and commentary.
Join a group or follow friends in the app and pick up where the group is if you fall behind.

INSIGHT

A Movement Bigger Than The Studio

BibleProject sees its role as one expression among many in a broader movement to read Scripture as one story that leads to Jesus.
Their hoped-for legacy is cultural language that lets communities adopt the approach and then 'disappear.'

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In our next-to-last episode of 2025, Tim, Jon, and BibleProject CEO, Steve Atkinson, review all the resources we released this year, while reflecting on the bigger worldwide movement of people reading the Bible as a unified story that leads to Jesus. The guys then share about some of what’s coming up next for BibleProject in 2026.

TIMESTAMPS

Gratitude for Our Mission (0:00-4:08)
New “One Story That Leads to Jesus” Reading Plan (4:08-9:01)
A Year Studying Themes From Exodus (9:01-16:15)
How the Bible Was Formed and the Deuterocanon / Apocrypha (16:15-17:53)
The Bigger Movement of Reading the Bible as One Story (17:53-27:34)
2025 Classroom Releases (27:34-30:02)
2025 Updates to the BibleProject App (30:02-31:58)
Ten Years of the BibleProject Podcast (31:58-33:09)
What Are We Releasing in 2026? (33:09-38:38)
Gratitude for Our Volunteers, Prayer Team, and Patrons (38:38-45:01)

OFFICIAL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

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REFERENCED RESOURCES

Subscribe to the “One Story That Leads to Jesus” annual reading plan on The Bible App by YouVersion.
Check out our 2025 collections of resources! Each has a video, podcast series, scholar-written guide, reading plan, and group study.
Listen to the 2025 podcast series How the Bible Was Formed.
Watch the 2025 overview video series on The Deuterocanon / Apocrypha.
Listen to the 2025 Advent podcast series.
Check out OneStory, a creative nonprofit that develops free Bible studies, lessons, and homeschool curricula—all featuring BibleProject resources.
See how Streetlights has localized BibleProject videos for their audience.
Watch or listen to the final installment of our Genesis Classroom series, Joseph. Also check out the second installment of the Gospel of Matthew Classroom series, The Messianic Torah, which focuses on the Sermon on the Mount.
Download the BibleProject App from the iOS App Store or Android Google Play Store.

SHOW MUSIC

BibleProject theme song by TENTS

SHOW CREDITS

Production of today’s episode is by Lindsey Ponder, producer, and Cooper Peltz, managing producer. Tyler Bailey is our supervising engineer, who also edited today’s episode and provided the sound design and mix. JB Witty writes the show notes. Our host and creative director is Jon Collins, and our lead scholar is Tim Mackie. Special thanks to our guest, Steve Atkinson.

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