New Bible based Christmas Sermon

My new Christmas sermon series is called "The Amazing Race". There are many 'races' in the Bible, but by far the races in the Bible are metaphorical uses taken from the world of athletics. Depending on the translation some English Bible texts use the word 'race' in reference to a group of people. Biblically speaking this is always a poor translation. I say that because, for instance, in 1 Peter 2.9 [a key verse for "The Amazing Race"] the word translated 'race' that begins the thought is the Greek word 'genea' from which we derive genealogy, generation and generic. It is more appropriate to translate this word as 'family' or 'generation'.
The truth is that the word 'race', when used in reference to people has only one meaning, the human race. Darwin may have been the figure that most popularized the idea of a multitude of human races, but the Bible only knows of one race, and it is beginning with God's creation of Adam and Eve an amazing race.