About Kingdoms Collide
The Bible Wasn’t Written in a Vacuum.
Kingdoms Collide is a biblical storytelling and study project exploring how Scripture becomes clearer when we read biblical books together and understand the historical world in which they were written.
History serves Scripture. Scripture serves Christ. Christ transforms us.
What is Kingdoms Collide?
Kingdoms Collide is a Bible teaching and historical storytelling project that follows the people, churches, cities, and conflicts of Scripture across time. Through narrative podcast seasons, biblical teaching, devotionals, maps, infographics, articles, and study resources, we connect related biblical texts with their historical and cultural settings to help people understand not only what Scripture says, but how its story develops.
We often encounter the Bible one book at a time: Acts, Ephesians, 1 Timothy, Revelation—each studied within its own boundaries. There is value in studying each book on its own terms, but the people who originally received these writings did not experience their lives as disconnected Bible studies. They lived one continuous story.
Season One demonstrates this approach by following the church in Ephesus from approximately AD 52 to AD 95. Instead of studying Acts, Ephesians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, 1 John, and Revelation only in isolation, we ask what becomes visible when these writings are placed back into conversation with the people, events, challenges, and history surrounding the Ephesian church.
This is the foundation of Kingdoms Collide. We begin with Scripture in its immediate context and slowly zoom out, looking for connections the biblical text itself allows us to make. Because sometimes the distance between two biblical passages isn’t theological. Sometimes it is simply a few pages in our Bible.
Kingdoms Collide exists to help close that distance.
How We Study Scripture
Scripture
What does the biblical text actually say?
Context
What did these words mean within their historical, cultural, political, religious, and economic world?
Connection
Where else does Scripture reveal another part of the same story?
Christ
How does the text ultimately illuminate God’s redemptive work in Christ?
Formation
What should understanding this change about the way we believe and live?
What Makes Kingdoms Collide Different?
Lightbulb Moments
Some of the most rewarding moments in Bible study happen when passages we have read for years suddenly connect.
Kingdoms Collide is built to create more opportunities for those moments. Whether you are opening the Bible for the first time or have studied it for decades, we want to help you notice relationships between texts, events, people, and historical circumstances that can easily disappear when biblical books are studied independently.
We are not searching for secret meanings hidden behind Scripture. We are trying to recover connections that become easier to see when Scripture is read carefully within its historical setting and alongside other biblical texts that belong to the same story.
Our favorite response is simple:
“I’ve read these verses for years, but I’ve never seen them connected like that.”
Just Take Season One as an Example:
What happens when Ephesians 6 is read after watching Ephesus riot in Acts 19?
Why would Paul’s command, “Let a woman learn,” have sounded significant in the first-century world?
Did Paul’s warning to the Ephesian elders about false teachers eventually come true?
Why does the household appear again and again throughout the Ephesian story?
How could a church praised for doctrine and perseverance eventually lose its first love?
These questions illustrate what Kingdoms Collide is designed to do: not replace careful study of individual passages, but widen the lens until connections that were always present become easier to see.
Season One: Ephesus
Season One follows the Christian community associated with Ephesus across roughly forty years of New Testament history.
Beginning with Paul’s arrival in Acts, we follow the Ephesian story through Acts 18–20, Ephesians, Paul’s letters to Timothy, the later Ephesian context reflected in 1 John, and finally Jesus’ message to the church in Ephesus in Revelation 2:1–7.
Along the way, we encounter the Temple of Artemis, the Ephesian economy, magic and spiritual power, persecution, false teaching, church leadership, family discipleship, generational change, and the struggle of a Christian community learning how to remain faithful within one of the Roman world’s most influential cities.
Instead of treating these writings as isolated studies, Kingdoms Collide asks what becomes visible when we place them back into conversation with one another.
How We Research
Historical context can illuminate Scripture, but it should never be allowed to replace it. Kingdoms Collide begins with the biblical text and uses historical, archaeological, cultural, and scholarly resources to reconstruct the world surrounding it. When historical evidence can clarify a custom, place, institution, conflict, or cultural assumption, we use that evidence to help readers better understand the world the biblical authors and their audiences inhabited.
We also distinguish between what Scripture states, what historical evidence supports, and what we are proposing as an interpretation or connection. Not every question has a certain answer, and responsible Bible study should be willing to say so.
Our goal is not to make history more important than Scripture. It is to allow good historical study to help us hear Scripture within the world in which it was first given.
History serves Scripture.
Who Is Behind Kingdoms Collide?
Tyler Henderson
Kingdoms Collide was created by Tyler Henderson, an ordained minister, pastor, Bible teacher, and evangelist with more than a decade of ministry leadership experience.
Throughout those years, one statement has surfaced again and again: “I want to study the Bible, but I just don’t feel like I get anything out of it.”
Kingdoms Collide grew in part from a desire to help people with that frustration.
This project is not intended to replace the local church, pastoral teaching, academic scholarship, or seminary education. Instead, its goal is to make deep biblical study more approachable; to help ordinary believers enter the world of Scripture, understand its context, recognize connections across biblical books, and ultimately live differently because of what they discover.
The aim is not merely to know more about the Bible. It is to know Scripture more deeply, see Christ more clearly, and allow what we learn to shape the way we live.
Don’t Just Read a Verse; Explore the Story
Every season of Kingdoms Collide combines narrative podcast episodes with biblical teaching, historical research, devotionals, maps, infographics, teaching guides, and long-form studies designed to help you see Scripture’s connections more clearly.