About Marsha West

Marsha West is the owner and managing editor of Christian Research Network, Apprising Ministries (the late Ken Silva’s blog) and On Solid Rock Resources. She is also co-founder of Berean Research. For two decades Marsha was the owner and managing editor of Email Brigade website as well as the EMB News Report, a bi-weekly email report for conservative people of faith. For many years Marsha was a regular contributor to several blogs including CRN, RenewAmerica, News With Views and Web Commantary as well as popular websites she no longer endorses: American Family Association, Worldview Weekend, Stand Up For The Truth, The Christian Post and Christian Headlines. Although Marsha still blogs, her primary focus is CRN. Marsha also writes Research Papers (White Papers) on various topics that are published on CRN, Berean Research and On Solid Rock Resources. Visit Marsha’s other sites: On Solid Rock Resources https://www.onsolidrockresources.com/ Apprising Ministries http://apprising.org Marsha’s RenewAmerica Column http://renewamerica.com/columns/mwest Marsha’s Facebook Page http://facebook.com/marsha.west.77

The Flood of Stunning New Evidence That J6 Was a Fedsurrection Can’t Be Ignored

“The media and congressional leaders lied about all of it. And if all that wasn’t your red pill moment, sit down because you may go from red to black pill by the end of this story.” 

(Victoria Taft – PJ Media) Like many of you, after the initial shock wore off, it became quite clear that something nefarious was behind the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol Complex. Things were too pat. Narratives were set and eagerly parroted by the media within hours. Buses filled with non-MAGA people were reported and verified by congressional reps. And there were “bombs” found at the Democratic National Committee and later at a club near the RNC. Impeachment talk was openly discussed. Continue reading

N.T. Wright Defends Annihilationism, Suggests Judas Ceased to Exist?

Or we could say, and I’ve tried to argue this here and there, they cease to exist as an image bearing human being. They’re saying in effect, ‘I no longer want to be somebody who is called to reflect God’s wisdom into the world and reflect the praises of the world back to God. I just don’t want to be that sort of creature anymore.’

(Protestia) Famed New Testament scholar N.T. Wright has weighed in on the state of those who explicitly reject Christ and salvation, suggesting they’ll simply be annihilated or exist in some state of being a creation, but not an image bearer. Continue reading

Democrats Cave on Government Funding, Will Receive Nothing for Ending Schumer Shutdown

The result is that Democrats once again overpromised results to their base but came up empty-handed, inflicting forty days of pain for nothing of substance.”

(Breitbart) A disastrous shutdown for Democrats got worse Sunday when Senate Democrats folded on government funding while receiving nothing of substance in return.

Eight Senate Democrats voted with 42 Republicans Sunday night on a procedural vote to allow a continuing resolution (CR) funding the government to advance. Continue reading

Genocidal Muslim Terrorists Killed 200,000 People in 11 Years

Earlier this year, Front Page Magazine reported on the genocide of Christians in Nigeria and called on President Trump to take action. Charlie Kirk tweeted out our article with the message, “Did you know 125,000 Christians have been murdered and 19,000 churches destroyed by Muslims in Nigeria in the last 15 years? Weird how that never gets any attention. Wonder why.”

(Daniel Greenfield – Frontpage Magazine) Islamic terrorism is the outcry of the oppressed, apologists tell us. If the perpetrators only had access to more advanced weapons, they wouldn’t feel the need to massacre civilians with everything from machetes to rockets. Terrorism is a local phenomenon, not a global one. Continue reading

‘Jesus Calling Foundation’ Gives $1M To PCA Amid Internal Investigation Book’s Theology

“[Jesus Calling] is one of the most dangerous books released in the last twenty years for its espousal of blatant mysticism, Montanism, Theoeroticism, speaking for God, extra-biblical assertions, automatic writing, and rejection of the sufficiency of the scriptures.”

(Protestia) The 2024 Form 990 for the Jesus Calling Foundation is now available and shows that the foundation contributed over a million dollars from book royalties to the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) in a single year.

In 2024, the same year that the PCA Committee on Discipleship Ministries (CDM) was tasked to “assess the book’s appropriateness for Christians” and “provide recommendations (if needed) for remedial materials, advisory statements, or General Assembly actions concerning Jesus Calling, the PCA received $1,080,000 from the Jesus Calling Foundation.  Continue reading

Huge crowd of Muslims gather to claim New York City for Islam…

“Assimilation isn’t oppression. It’s how a nation stays united. Without it, we’re just a collection of divided groups living on the same land — and that’s not a country, that’s chaos.”

(Revolver) What’s happening in New York right now has a lot of Americans on edge, and rightfully so. A massive group of Muslims gathered and publicly claimed the city for Islam. People who watched it unfold aren’t being “bigots” for feeling uneasy. They’re watching their country’s biggest city slip further from the culture that built it, just days after electing a Marxist mayor.

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Benny Hinn Reveals 4 Tests That Separate True Ministers From Frauds

CRN does not recommend promoters of heretics Charisma, the “Christian” website this article is published on. Most people know by now that “faith healer” Benny Hinn is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’s the worst of the worst a “very bad man.”

Now to Charisma’s LOL piece:

Pastor Benny Hinn sat down in a powerful interview with Pastor Joshua Hayward Mills of First Love Church to discuss the issues every minister faces and the divine principles that prepare leaders to shepherd God’s people effectively. Continue reading

Yes, Virginia, there is a Satan

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“The answer of course is the Bible. Yet how many people actually read it? How many churches really preach it? How many Christians know about total depravity and sovereign grace? Or perfect wrath and holy terror?”

(Mike Arbige – TruthScript) In an election night filled with disappointing, albeit unsurprising results, perhaps none was more disappointing and surprising than Virginia’s comfortable election of Jay Jones as its next Attorney General. Yes, that Jay Jones. The man who fantasizes about killing Republicans and their children…. Continue reading

Two GOP leaders who did their part to get Marxist Mamdani elected…

(Revolver) New York City didn’t wake up one morning and elect a foreign Marxist mayor by accident. That didn’t “just happen.” It’s the final act of a political show that’s been running for years. And it wasn’t just the dastardly Dems who helped produce it. None of this could’ve happened without Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell—the “super polite” Republican leaders who smiled, stalled, and sabotaged Trump’s legal immigration reforms during his first term, at a time when it would’ve mattered most and could have actually changed the course of history. Continue reading

FBI’s Bongino says he’s shocked ‘to my core’ by probes into Intelligence agencies’ corruption

“We are going to get the answers WE ALL DESERVE. As with any investigation, I cannot predict where it will land, but I can promise you an honest and dignified effort at truth. Not “my truth,” or “your truth,” but THE TRUTH.”

(Charlotte Hazard – Just the News) FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Saturday that he is shocked to his core about what he has learned during ongoing investigations to root out public corruption and political weaponization of intelligence agencies. Continue reading

Unwinding False Teaching

“By carefully comparing Scripture with Scripture and Bible version with Bible version, we may protect ourselves from serious error. If left unchecked, a minor drift from the historical-grammatical test can lead to serious heresy.”

(Don & Joy Veinot – Midwestern Christian Outreach) As we help those who are former cult members, it is nearly always necessary to show them how to read the Bible in its historical and grammatical context. Bringing new clarity to a person’s understanding of Scripture is a process we refer to as “unwinding.” Plenty of false teaching results from lifting passages from their historical-grammatical context and giving them new inventive meanings…. Continue reading

Brutal Night for Republicans… Or Was It?

(Stephen Kruiser – PJ Media) What the heck, let’s come at this post mortem from a different angle. I assure you that I’m not concussed, drunk, or in some sort of Invasion of the Body Snatchers situation. True, things did not go well at all for Republicans on Election Night 2025. A commie jihadist was elected mayor of New York CityVirginia was a bloodbath. New Jersey elected another Dem to lead the state, and California voted to become even more politically California-ish.

That’s a whole lotta ugliness for Republicans. Continue reading

New York Mayoral Election Results: Mamdani Wins

“If there is one thing we have learned from this election night, it is that Republicans need to take the Democratic Party much more seriously. They are most certainly not over as a national party, and they are hell bent for leather on winning as many elections as they can. Ahead of the 2026 midterms, we need to buckle down and pour our resources and time into getting out the vote.”

(Catherine Salgado – PJ Media) Radical socialist, pro-jihad Democrat candidate Zohran Mamdani has reportedly fulfilled the worst expectations of patriotic Americans in winning the New York City mayoral race, according to an early call from DDHQ with about two-thirds of the vote in. Continue reading

The Heritage Foundation Enters the Carlson-Fuentes Dispute

“The word “cancel” took on a certain connotation when social media platforms were (and still are) silencing conservative voices. Those are platforms — the digital town square — where free speech ought to prevail. The ideas of a movement are different. Telling Nick Fuentes your hate-filled identity politics have no part with our Liberty movement is not cancel culture. It’s the stewardship of our movement.”

(Nate Jackson – The Patriot Post) Properly understood, the political spectrum runs from Liberty on the right to tyranny on the left. If that simple truth is kept in mind, it clarifies much of the political rancor and debate, including what a fascist is and the controversy surrounding Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. Continue reading

Texas Supreme Court Allows Judges To Refuse To Perform Same-Sex Weddings

“As a result of the victory, many believe it could play a role in a federal lawsuit that is attempting to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage.”

(Protestia) In what has been hailed as a “massive rollback for LGBTQ rights,” a new ruling by the Texas Supreme Court has granted judges the freedom to refuse to perform ‘same-sex weddings’ if it violates their sincerely held religious beliefs. Continue reading

This Looks Like the Smoking Gun in the Case Against James Comey

(Matt Margolis PJ Media) James Comey’s legal troubles just got a whole lot worse.

In September, James Comey was indicted on charges of making false statements and obstruction of justice. Comey claims he’s the victim of malicious prosecution, and Democrats are out in full force claiming that this is part of Trump’s “revenge,” but newly filed evidence that Just the News obtained is quite damning. Prosecutors have revealed what looks like a smoking gun: Comey’s own words showing that he wasn’t merely aware his top aides were leaking to the press; he was actively congratulating them for it. Continue reading

Hundreds of ‘Assemblies of God’ Churches Accused of Shielding Child Predators in New Report

“While some denominations like the SBC and the Roman Catholic Church have implemented safety measures including background checks for staff and volunteers, reporting protocols, and prevention training, the AOG has languished. The General Council previously debated making these anti-abuse protocols and policies mandatory, but ultimately decided against it after their lawyers warned it would expose their national office to lawsuits and litigation.”

(Protestia) A deep dive into the Assemblies of God has revealed a “50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination,” according to NBC News, which has been investigating sex abuse allegations in the Assemblies of God as part of their Pastors and Prey series: Continue reading

The crashing failure of the feminist movement

“…mothers dropped off their infants, babies, toddlers, and preschoolers to paid workers who tended up to 20 or more children at a time, making sure those children were safe and fed, but not necessarily held, loved, comforted, taught, or nurtured.”

(Joan Swirsky – RenewAmerica) Going back 250 years, the enemies of America thought long and hard about how to destroy the fledgling experiment of a Democratic Republic that our Founding Fathers envisioned. It was (and continues to be) clear to our enemies that America’s strength is a function of three phenomena: Continue reading

The Entitlement Scourge

(Bill O’Reilly) We live in a selfish society.  Millions of Americans simply want stuff given to them.  Generally speaking, immigrants work harder than indigenous citizens.  At least that’s what I see from my perch in New York.

My father used to confront my sloth with a cliche: “Do you think the world owes you a living?”

Whereupon my wise guy persona would retort: “No, but it should.  I’m a special guy.”

I believe my dad followed up with: “Wipe that smirk off your face.”

Okay.  He was 6’3″. Continue reading

Reformation Day Should be Bible Appreciation Day!

“I think it’s appropriate today to thank the Lord for the Bible that you hold in your hand.”

(Jordan Standridge – The Cripplegate) October 31 should be Bible Appreciation Day.

While the world’s children appreciate candy and playing dress up, we Christians ought to appreciate those who shed their blood in order for us to hold the Bible.

If only Wycliffe, Hus, and Tyndale could have seen a vision of my iPhone as they were being killed for their hard work! They would have seen the dozens of translations I hold in my Bible gateway app, or my Logos app, that allows me to have access to so many tools, including the ability to parse Greek words at the drop of a hat! Continue reading

Stage is Set for Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage

…the case “provides a stark reminder” that the decision to support “a novel constitutional right over the religious liberty interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment, and by doing so undemocratically, the court has created a problem that only it can fix….Until then, Obergefell will continue to have ruinous consequences for religious liberty.” 

(Jack Smith – The Western Journal) A former county clerk in Kentucky who was at the eye of the storm in 2015 after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage is asking the court to hear an appeal in a case in which she is seeking have the decision reversed. Continue reading

Pagan Worship Practices and the Deification of Man: Can Cultures Be Redeemed?

“I had always enjoyed watching Grandma perform hula, but it wasn’t until I began studying apologetics and Christian discernment that I realized hula does not belong in the church. Hula is performed with reference and supplication to the gods and goddesses of hula. Hula was also used by Pele (the Hawaiian Goddess of Volcanoes and Fire) and her sister Hiʻiaka (the Hawaiian patron goddess of hula dancers, chant, sorcery, and medicine) to seduce Lohiʻau.”

(Stephanie A Potts – Midwest Christian Outreach) In chapter two of my newly released book Social Justice and the Deification of Man: What to Know When Talking with the Christian Left, I discuss the dangers of making God in our own image in order to make the gospel more appealing to oppressed people groups…. Continue reading

Lance Wallnau Charges $1500 for Bizarre ‘Destiny Weekend’ Conference

Naturally, the testimonials about it are glowing and focus on success in business, mixing promises of wealth and purpose with pledges of “supernatural shifts” so that one might receive the “authority to occupy your territory.”

(Protestia) We’ve written about Lance Wallnau in the past, demonstrating that he’s been  thoroughly discredited as a false prophet. A key player in the New Apostolic Reformation, he is a driving force behind the Seven Mountain Mandate that seeks to take “dominion” over seven designated areas of culture, including religion, family, education, government, media, arts & entertainment, and business. Continue reading

Trump: US, China ‘Have a Deal’ After Meeting With Xi

In his online statement, Trump hailed the talks as “historic.”

(Charlie McCarthy – Newsmax) President Donald Trump said the U.S. and China “have a deal” after meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, a summit he described as “a 12” on a scale of 0 to 10.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One after the nearly two-hour meeting at a South Korean air base on Thursday, Trump said the two nations reached agreements on trade, fentanyl, and rare earth exports, marking a thaw in the tense relationship between Washington and Beijing. Continue reading