Psalm 37: Impossible Reconciliation with War

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Next Step #784 – November 23, 2023 – Thanksgiving edition at the beginning of Advent and in the middle of a war. Discussed in this episode: The impossible the reconciliation of Psalm 37 with war. Power, Horseys and the meek. Armodoxy Delivers: Religion with practical application, connecting the dots in life today, not in the future. The Three fundamental questions: leaving God to deal with those things we can’t forces us to take up what is in our hands, namely peace and understanding. Religion and its application.
Advent 50 Series – Essential Teaching of Jesus
Psalm 37
An invite Christians Can’t Ignore
No atheists in birthing rooms
Thank U Very Much, The Scaffold Song
Cover: Envato Elements
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An Invite Christians Can’t Ignore

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Next Step #783 – November 10, 2023 – Why Christians cannot ignore this moment in history. No need to read Revelation, it’s selfevident. Jesus’ message was peace, and it does not fit as an ‘addendum’ to the Old Testament. It is a New message, and a new testament. The challenge from Burmingham: A call and challenge to the Church and Christians everywhere. The appalling stories that demand answers. Genocide in the works: What happens when WWJD evolves to WWJS, WWJK and WWJB? Epostle takes first steps into the metaverse and returns with new programming.
Links:
Must Reading Today: Letter from Burmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr.
Epostle.net Daily Messages
Armodoxy for Today: Saints and the Power Within
Icons on Pushkin
World Vision at the Armenian Church, sermon by Fr. Vazken 11/5/23
“Now and Then” by the Beatles
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Missing Steps

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Missing Steps

Next Step #782 – October 20, 2023 – Forget Armageddon, listen to this and then act. Here are the “missing steps” in moving forward. A month after the loss of Nagorna Karabakh, Fr. Vazken comes with a response to the collective disappointment plaguing the Armenian community. Victim mentality returns with a loss of self-worth. Now Israel and war, without an alternative, why Bibles are not the answer. Jesus as revolutionary and the loss of that revolution. Fighting fire with water instead with fire. In His Shoes toward peace.
Freeway Blocked – Armenia & Karabakh
Who would Jesus bomb?
Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Leveraging Love
Lucy Yeghiazarian
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Hours Later

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Next Step #781 – September 21, 2023 – Hours after the cease-fire in Artsakh, people deal with the new reality. Fr. Vazken shares thoughts from the 1988 protests to this day.
CBS News Account
CivilNet Account
Amerikatsi Movie
Armodoxy for Today. Today
AP Source
Leveraging Love
CNSY Living with War
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Natural Solutions with Supernatural Consequences

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Super Solutions that are Natural

Next Step #780 – August 18, 2023 – Looking for solutions to the supersized crises from the blockade in Artsakh to the wildfire in Hawaii, Fr. Vazken points to natural solutions with supernatural consequences. Empathy comes alive, lip-service ends, children learn, and so do we. Begging others –  America, Russia or France – ends. Weapon and resources we’ve always had and echoed by Khirimian Hayrig himself. A call to donated to Hawaiian Wildfire Relief. Effective protest- to the point and ones which get answers – tried and proven. Religious prejudice and Carlos Santana’s Supernatural. Jesus’ natural supernatural abilities.

Links from today’s podcast:
Blockade in Artsakh
Open Wounds and you’d never know
Los Angeles Freeways Blocked
Carlos Santana gets away with Supernatural talk
Hawaiian Wildfire Tragedy
In His Shoes – Hawaiian Wildfire Relief
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Cover Photo – Finger & statue at Cascade 2014
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Changing Center

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Next Step #779 – July 28, 2023 – A call to believe in the power within… Artsakh blockade continues as do the pleas for help. Armenian clergy meet with the US State Department and the vicious circle of victimization continues. Protests take place everywhere except Baku and Ankara. Anthropocene affecting more than we bargained for. Leveraging Love is still the only viable choice – from Archimedes’ lever to Jesus’ mustard seed, the solution is with us.
Beatles Pub in Yerevan
Clergy/State Department Meeting re: Artsakh
Artsakh Blockade 7/28/23
Tankian Spins support
Fr. Vazken on Anthropocene 5yrs ago
Ian Anderson’s Divinities: Twelve Dances with God
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Did You Notice This?

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Next Step #778 – July 16, 2023 – A look at the Transfiguration and a look at what we miss. Did you notice? The story of Joseph and Mary’s son. Not who you may think. Actually Joseph and Mary are not who you think. Personal reflections.
Basement Tapes with Sousanna Pogosian
Joseph & Mary’s Son
Armen Movsisyan Unplugged
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The 7s have aligned again

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Next Step #777 – July 7, 2023 – Kicking off the 16th year of the Next Step podcast, Fr. Vazken shares the message of the original “7”s and forgiveness and gives a preview of the year to come on Epostle.net.
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Canons: More than an Admin Issue

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Next Step #776 – June 1, 2023 – Canon law brings order and avoids chaos in the church. What happens when laws are broken intentionally? Fr. Vazken discusses the recent incident of a non-canonical ordination and the grave consequences which are not limited to order, but extend to the spiritual welfare of the communicant, the community and the essences of the Apostolic Church. Here’s a play by play of what’s happening.
Western Diocese’ statement
Window View of the Armenian Church
Parik Nazarian
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Ethnic Churches at Pentecost

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Next Step #775 – May 25, 2023 -The other side of Ascension: Jesus, his love for his friends and letting go. Marriage and letting go of children: establishing their own and catching the wind to fly. The Ethnic Churches: understanding in the West and obstacles to manifesting the Orthodox Tradition. Daring to contemplate Jesus’ humanity: Walking in the shoes of Jesus? Jerusalem and the fallacy of national churches: Simply find the Agent of Process! Ultimately: Quest of Peace, coming up.
Last Temptation by Kazantsakis
Fr. Vazken on Last Temptation of Christ
Daryll Black, I am not a Black Christian
Fr. Vazken on Antiochian Orthodox Church
Building Up the Body of Christ, Bishop Daniel
Jerusalem, Armenian Quarter News
Tina Turner passes away 
Tina Turner
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