Leah found this sermon on Genesis 1 by Tullian Tchividjian, the pastor at Coral Ridge Presbyterian in Florida (and grandson of Billy Graham). He makes many of the same points made in this week's Gospel Project lesson. It's definitely worth a listen if you have time.
As he says in the intro, we often spend our time on Genesis 1 focusing on secondary things (at best). For example, we focus on the heroes of the text (Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph) and what moral lessons we can learn from their examples. But the "heroes" of Genesis aren't really heroes at all. They fall, they fail, they lie, they make huge mistakes, they're selfish, they're egotistical, they're unreliable...
Genesis was not primarily written so that we would have a catalogue of heroes to emmulate. It was primarily written to whet our appetite for another....for someone who will come and succeed where human "heroes" fail. From beginning to end Genesis is a witness to a God who is full of grace...who gives, not because of our moral successes, but in spite of our moral failures.
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