Coram Deo Church Sermon Audio

After the rebellion at Babel, the question stands: How will God respond, and how will His plan move forward? In a surprising turn of events, God calls a barren couple to leave what is familiar and to trust in His provision. From Genesis 12 forward, the story of redemption and blessing unfolds, a story each human being is invited into.

Human beings generally agree something is wrong with the world. The world needs to be saved. The disagreement lies behind why the world is ruined and what can be done to save it. Genesis 10-11 demonstrate that the world needs saving, humanity’s attempts are frivolous, and only God’s plan is the adequate solution.

The story of Noah is one of the most beloved stories in the Bible. When we read it, we often think of Noah as the hero of the story. But even Noah fails to be the righteous leader God's people need. After the flood waters recede, Noah has his own Fall, in his own garden, recapitulating the tragedy of Adam and Eve. The flood story, taken as a whole, reminds readers: God is the hero, not Noah.

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The story of the flood taps into a key biblical theme: salvation through judgment. As humans continue to sin and wickedness and evil run rampant, God, in his goodness, acts. The flood is a reminder that God judges sin, but the story of the flood and the preservation of Noah, also demonstrates God seeks to save.

The last half of Genesis 4 and the entirety of Genesis 5 is a list of names many readers skip. But this text communicates an important theological and practical truth: there are only two ways to live. In this sermon, we explore the simple yet vital idea that your life is either moving toward God or away from God.

The story of Cain and Abel reveals that from its earliest chapters, the Bible is concerned with our inner life. We will either rule or be ruled; we will conquer sin or sin will conquer us. In this message, we explore how religiosity, comparison, and anger ruled Cain, leading him to kill his brother. And we examine how the grace of Jesus sets us free to bring our inner world into line with the goodness, truth, and beauty of the kingdom of God.

Ever since Genesis 3, sin and corruption have marked the human story. But what is God's response to sin? In this message, we explore signs of God's grace even in the midst of sin and judgment.

Fig leaves. It's more than just a narrative detail. It's the feeble way the first humans attempt to cover sin and its baggage - shame, hiding, blaming. It's a habit as old as Eden. When we see the futility of fig leaves, it helps us to see the beauty of a life that walks before God, covered in his righteousness.

Sin is real, damaging, and deadly. Sin manifests itself in countless ways, but underneath it all, we tend to repeat the pattern of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3. When we understand how and why Adam and Eve sinned we can grow in our awareness of our own sin and see our need for the grace of God along the way.

Conversations about sexuality, gender, and marriage place us on highly contested ground in our cultural moment. Sin has deformed and damaged so much. Yet Genesis 2 presents God’s glorious vision for gender and sexuality: humans as male and female, reflecting the image of the Triune God in differentiation and unity.