In this 1 Corinthians expository preaching series at our Phoenix church, we will walk carefully through Paul’s letter to a church planted in the middle of a wealthy, diverse, and deeply pagan city. Written around AD 54 from Ephesus, 1 Corinthians addresses a congregation struggling to follow Jesus while still clinging to patterns shaped by the surrounding culture.

Paul writes to exalt the gospel of Jesus Christ, answer the Corinthians’ questions, and confront the serious sins and divisions that had gone unchallenged among them. Though Corinth was a uniquely challenging place, the struggles facing that church are not foreign to us. The same tensions between faithfulness and compromise, truth and preference, holiness and cultural pressure still confront the church today.

Throughout most of 2026, Redemption Arcadia will spend thirty-nine Sundays studying 1 Corinthians together in five movements:

Divisions & Preferences (chapters 1–4)
Sex & Body (chapters 5–7)
Food & Wisdom (chapters 8–10)
Spirit & Service (chapters 11–14)
Resurrection & Hope (chapters 15–16)

This series will help us see how the gospel speaks not only to doctrine, but to our life together as the church.

First Corinthians 4:1–13

March 1, 2026 / Tyler James

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First Corinthians 3:10–23

February 22, 2026 / Frank Switzer

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First Corinthians 3:1–9

February 15, 2026 / Frank Switzer

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First Corinthians 2:6–16

February 8, 2026 / Trae Fraley

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First Corinthians 2:1–5

February 1, 2026 / Frank Switzer

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First Corinthians 1:18–31

January 25, 2026 / Zachary Hines

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First Corinthians 1:10–17

January 18, 2026 / Tyler James

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First Corinthians 1:1–9

January 11, 2026 / Frank Switzer

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