Looking Back at 2025 and Ahead to 2026
12/29/202545 min
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 St...
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First 90 secondsJon Collins· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hey, Tim.
Tim Mackie· Host0:06
Hey, John. Hi.
Jon Collins· Host0:07
Hi. Hello, Steve.
Steve Atkinson· Guest0:09
Hello, John. Hello, Tim.
Tim Mackie· Host0:11
Steve.
Jon Collins· Host0:11
Here we are.
Tim Mackie· Host0:12
Great to have you here.
Steve Atkinson· Guest0:13
It must be the end of the year.
Jon Collins· Host0:15
[laughs] Yes, it is.
Steve Atkinson· Guest0:16
That's right. Once again- Mm-hmm ... giving the people what they want.
Jon Collins· Host0:18
[laughs] [laughs] Little bit of Steve in our lives.
Steve Atkinson· Guest0:20
That's right. That's right.
Jon Collins· Host0:22
Steve- Just a little bit ... this is the fifth- Mm ... time you've come and joined us at the end of the year- Yeah ... to do this. This has become quite a tradition.
Steve Atkinson· Guest0:28
[laughs] [laughs] It's what I'm living for, John. [laughs] Right here, man. I just, I work out all year trying to get ready for this moment.
Tim Mackie· Host0:34
It's on the list of holiday events that you look forward to.
Steve Atkinson· Guest0:37
Oh, yeah.
Tim Mackie· Host0:37
I do. Actually, I do. I look forward to this as part of- It's fun ... our end of the year.
Jon Collins· Host0:41
No, I do, too. I open up presents on Christmas morning- [laughs] ... but what I really am excited for- [laughs] ... is the end of the year drop- I'm right there with you ... after Christmas.
Steve Atkinson· Guest0:49
I love it.
Jon Collins· Host0:49
Yeah. Okay. [laughs] So, uh, what we wanna do is just reflect on the year- Mm-hmm ... and just celebrate all of you who are listening- Mm-hmm ... who've been a part of this- Mm ... and celebrate what we've gotten to do together.
Tim Mackie· Host1:00
Yeah.
Jon Collins· Host1:00
'Cause there's so many rad things that have happened.
Tim Mackie· Host1:02
So many. And I, I mean, we got to make and release a lot of great content- Yeah ... that's in media. But also just some really beautiful stories have emerged about what God's doing in the lives of people through the Spirit activating Scripture and pointing [laughs] people to Jesus.
Jon Collins· Host1:22
Mm-hmm.
Tim Mackie· Host1:22
But we get to be a part of it 'cause we're making stuff about the Bible, and we get to hear all these cool stories. So we wanna share some of those with you,