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In this message, we observe Paul's prayer for the church to know God better through the spirit of revelation and for the eyes of our heart to be enlightened. Often the wells of wonder and delight run dry yet a life fascinated is possible when we become urban mystics in a world that is focused on right & wrong and black and white.  

The church exist as this strange new family built around Jesus and we have a foundation of every spiritual blessing in Christ. This initiation from God results in our praise for God's plan for our lives. 

In this message pastor Brian unpack's what it means to have "every spiritual blessing" in Christ. We are often familiar with the wounds of curses in our world but less aquatinted with what blessing is in Scripture and how we get it, why we need it, and how we give it away. 

What does a community look like committed to racial reconciliation? Pastor Brian Fulton discusses some new research from sociology professor Michael Emerson along with sharing our call as a community to examen, lament, repent, and forgive.    

Brian Fulton explains that too long have churches often seek to escape or judge messy and complex emotions such as fear, anxiety, grief and anger - they are all part of the human experience. Jesus is our model of someone who not only named his emotions but sat with them in his body to be attuned to his reality and offer them to God to experience radical acceptance.

Today's message comes from Luke 22:39-44, Matt 26:42 and 1 John 4:7-11 We hope it blesses you through this time of future undefined. May God's love comfort you with the peace of the Holy Spirit.