SEASON ONE • EPHESUS
KINGDOMS COLLIDE
Six biblical books. Forty years. One church under pressure.
Explore the rise, endurance, struggle, and final warning of one of the most remarkable churches in the New Testament.
THE STORY SPANS FOUR DECADES
One Church. Forty Years. Six Biblical Books.
Follow the church at Ephesus from its unlikely beginning in Acts, through Paul’s letters and Timothy’s leadership, to Christ’s final words to the church in Revelation.
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acts 18-20
62 AD
Ephesians
65 AD
1 Timothy
67 AD
2 Timothy
85 AD
1 John
95 AD
Revelation
The church didn’t fail overnight.
It began with extraordinary promise. It survived opposition, spiritual warfare, false teaching, cultural pressure, and decades of change. Then, nearly forty years after the story began, Jesus addressed the church Himself.
SEASON ONE • EPHESUS
Enter the Story
EPISODE 01 • 52 AD
The Stop That Began a Church
Paul wasn’t planning to stay but one brief stop in Ephesus would set events in motion that would reshape the spiritual landscape of Asia Minor.
Acts 18:18-28
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A War of Endurance
Paul returns to Ephesus and this time he stays. What follows is a years long campaign of teaching, opposition, sacrifice, and extraordinary expansion.
Acts 19:1-10
EPISODE 03 • 55 AD
The Door Opens
Extraordinary miracles, counterfeit power, public fear, and a fire worth a fortune. The collision between two kingdoms is becoming impossible to ignore.
Acts 19:11-20
Go Deeper
Don’t Just Listen to the Story: Study It.
Every episode of Kingdoms Collide opens another layer of the story. Go deeper with Bible study resources, episode-specific devotionals, visual guides, and teaching material designed to help you explore the Scriptures behind the story.
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120 days through ephesus
Walk alongside Season One with a 120 day devotional journey through the scriptures, themes, people, challenges, and spiritual lessons of the Ephesian church.
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More Than a Christian Podcast
Kingdoms Collide is more than a Christian podcast. It is a growing library of free Bible study resources designed to help you explore Scripture as an interconnected story. Each season brings together biblical storytelling, historical context, Bible studies, devotionals, teaching guides, maps, visual resources, and long-form articles to help you understand not only what the Bible says, but how its books, people, places, and events connect.
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Follow the biblical story through cinematic, narrative-driven episodes that bring together Scripture, biblical history, archaeology, culture, and historical context.
Bible Studies & Teaching Guides
Explore free Bible studies and teaching guides built for personal study, small groups, Sunday school classes, and church leaders who want to go deeper into the biblical text.
Devotionals
Move from understanding the world of the Bible to living faithfully in your own through Scripture-centered devotionals accompanying each episode.
Maps, Articles, & Visual Resources
Explore maps, timelines, historical guides, articles, and visual resources designed to make the people, places, events, and connections of Scripture easier to understand.
Season One: Ephesus
Season One explores the church of Ephesus across more than forty years of biblical history. Rather than studying each book in isolation, Kingdoms Collide follows the interconnected story through Acts, Ephesians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, the later Ephesian context reflected in 1 John, and Revelation. The result is a Bible study journey from the church’s beginning in Acts to Christ’s final warning in Revelation 2.
SEASON ONE • EPHESUS
The Story is Just Beginning.
From a brief stop in 52 AD to the words of Jesus over forty years later, follow the rise, struggle, endurance, and final reckoning of the church at Ephesus.