Dan Ehrman, Director of Church Relations and Strategy at Tyndale House Publishers
When we encounter the living God, transformation happens. The God whom no eye has seen has made himself known through his Word. But distractions press in — urgent and relentless — while God’s Word sits waiting for us to move from the urgent to the important. It’s a tough sell: reading a 750,000-word book thousands of years old in a world of reels du jour.
Forty years ago, The One Year Bible launched at the behest of Tyndale House Publishers founder Ken Taylor, and it has revolutionized Bible engagement for millions. Combining passages from the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs, it guides readers through the entire Bible in 365 daily readings. Many churches have embraced it over the decades — I remember going through it at my church in high school in the ’90s.
This year, Asbury Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, purchased The One Year Bible to give away to members, visitors, and friends — because, as they put it, “the daily habit of reading God’s Word will change your life.” They partnered with Church Connect, directly connecting the church with Bibles, Christian books, and trusted resources on mission for discipleship and outreach to unify all people in our faith and knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Oklahoma’s state motto is Labor Omnia Vincit — “Work Conquers All Things” — and the Asbury team has lived up to it. Launching their own Year Through the Bible initiative, they planned a year-long sermon series drawing each week’s message from the prior week’s readings. They also developed eye-catching Bible reading water bottles to promote the initiative.
Asbury’s Senior Pastor Andrew Forrest came to Tulsa after leading a successful church plant in the Dallas area. Asbury was one of the larger churches in their denomination before quietly exiting a few years ago, and pivoting out of that season of transition, they are pressing forward with ministry firmly centered on God’s Word. Hear from him directly in conversation with me on The Church Around the World podcast.
It is encouraging to see God moving in a new generation of his people. The creativity and hard work the Asbury team has invested is an invitation — to pray, to consider, and to ask how God might be calling your church to use The One Year Bible to make an eternal impact in this generation.
Let’s build up his church together.
Dan Ehrman serves as Director of Church Relations and Strategy with Tyndale House Publishers, leading a venture to resource churches for outreach and discipleship. He hosts The Church Around the World podcast on Church-Connect.com and holds an MA in Evangelism and Leadership from Wheaton College. With a background spanning Christian media, publishing, and church consulting, Dan brings hands-on ministry experience and strategic insight to leaders navigating today’s church landscape.
Earlier this year Dan was a guest on Asbury church’s Year Through the Bible podcast. Listen here