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

One Flesh: On Marriage and Divorce

Marriage is not merely a piece of paper; it is a living picture of Christ’s unbreakable love for His Bride, the Church (Ephesians 5). By guarding the permanence of the marriage bond, the church protects the innocent, honors God’s creation design, and testifies to a watching world about the faithful, covenant-keeping love of God.”

(Tony Arsenal – Reformed Arsenal) Few institutions in the modern world have been as fiercely debated, redefined, and fractured as marriage. Contemporary culture increasingly views marriage as a fluid social contract based on personal fulfillment, to be entered and exited at will. Continue reading

Now We Know Who Was Really Behind E. Jean Carroll’s Bogus Allegations Against Trump

It wasn’t until shortly before the trial that her own attorney wrote to Trump’s legal team admitting that Carroll had “recollected additional information” while preparing for testimony. Trump’s lawyers noted that the “belated disclosure” raised “significant concerns” about Carroll’s “bias and motive.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) E. Jean Carroll’s rape allegations against President Donald Trump were never credible, and now she’s under investigation by the Department of Justice for perjury. Now, Byron York is digging into the case and has uncovered what could be the most elaborate political setup in history. Continue reading

An Authentic Biblical and Political Worldview

“But here’s the deal: embracing an authentic biblical worldview can empower you to engage in politics with purpose. It allows you to speak truth to power and advocate for justice in a way that reflects the heart of God. We’re called to be salt and light in our communities, and that means standing up for what’s right, even when it’s unpopular.”

(Patrick Hampton – The Patriot Post) In today’s fast-paced and often chaotic world, where politics and religion seem to clash at every corner, having an authentic biblical worldview is more crucial than ever. This perspective isn’t just a collection of beliefs; it’s a solid foundation that shapes how we see everything around us — our communities, our families, and our values. Continue reading

When Christians Tolerate Anything and Everybody, You Cannot Guard the Flock Against Wolves

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Like the Burger King Whopper, many people customize Jesus so that they can have Him their way. Nowadays the Jesus portrayed in the Bible is out! Passe! People who customize Jesus for whatever reason have no problem admitting that they do not hold to the infallibility of Holy Writ. Out with the Bible! The customizers have sculpted a modern-day culturally relevant man of the people Jesus who is fully onboard with their social justice agenda. Their Jesus would have no problem participating in a yoga class. In fact, he’d most likely lead the class. These customizers can imagine their Jesus beginning his class with the Hindu greeting: “Namaste (the divine in me bows to the divine in you).”

The person I described is “Have Him Your Way Jesus.” There is nothing biblical about him. Progressives believe that culturally relevant Jesus would march in an LGBTQIA+++ parade. He would also participate in a pro-abortion rally. Continue reading

Smiling faces…show no traces of the evil that lurks within

“We and others contacted all of these publishers and sent evidence of the Enneagram’s origins, worldview, and teachings, and they all ignored it. The deception was and remains deeply rooted, and it is now being taught in Christian colleges and universities.”

(Don & Joy Veinot – Midwest Christian Outreach) In 1971, the Temptations recorded a rather long (more than 12-minutes) rendition of Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong’s song, “Smiling Faces Sometimes,” for Motown. The same year, Norman Whitfield produced a version of the song edited down to about 3:20, performed by The Undisputed Truth. That version reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the R&B charts. The premise of the song is simple: you cannot trust someone just because they are smiling: Continue reading

Another Rough Runoff Night for Trump Detractors

“The Republicans are going to need President Trump to have a lot of clout to keep the voters excited for the midterms. The GOP often finds the apathy of its own voters to be the toughest opponent in elections. Motivation shouldn’t be a problem, given how clinically insane the Democrats are these days.”

(Stephen Kruiser – PJ Media) The alternative universe that the “journalists” at the New York Times and the Washington Post write about is filled with stories about an ever-widening rift in the MAGA movement. According to the fiction, people on the right are becoming disenchanted with President Donald Trump. I keep looking for signs of it in the real world and have not yet been able to find any. Continue reading

RTS Joins TGC Women’s Conference to Promote Seminary Training to Women

“RTS should know better. A seminary claiming faithfulness to the Scriptures should not be linking arms with an organization that has spent years softening the church’s instincts toward feminism, critical theory, political compromise, and therapeutic evangelicalism. Yet here we are. Another conference. Another panel. Another carefully packaged conversation assuring evangelicals that the boundaries still exist while those very boundaries are being erased in practice right before everyone’s eyes.”

(The Dissenter) There used to be a time when seminaries existed to forge men who feared God more than man. Men who could stand in a pulpit with a spine made of iron and say, “Thus saith the Lord,” even if the whole room hissed back at them. Continue reading

The Doomsday Scenario Quietly Died. Nobody Covered It.

“The climate establishment built its policy architecture on a foundation it now concedes was implausible and did so for decades while critics were dismissed as deniers.

(Jay Rogers – Townhall) I was sitting in a theater in 2006 watching An Inconvenient Truth, wondering whether Al Gore had turned a legitimate environmental concern into a summer blockbuster. Twenty years later, the international scientific committee that sets official climate scenarios for the United Nations retired its most extreme emissions pathway — SSP5-8.5 — declaring it implausible. The announcement came buried in a technical paper from the CMIP7 ScenarioMIP committee, published in May 2026, and it landed with roughly the media fanfare of a recycling schedule update…. Continue reading

Contend for the Faith By Resisting Syncretism

A few years ago I warned you that the wily serpent uses syncretism to separate God from His people. “Everywhere the Gospel of Jesus Christ is proclaimed” says Forrestt McPhail, “Satan aggressively plants false gospels. His goal is to remove the power of the Gospel by stripping it of its key truths.” Evangelicalism has been assimilated into the world because of it.

(Forrestt McPhail – Rooted Thinking) The word syncretism isn’t in the Bible. It refers to mixing two things together that aren’t meant to be mixed, resulting in something entirely different. The concept of religious syncretism (the combining of elements of God’s truth with pagan religion and human philosophies) is all throughout Scripture…. Continue reading

Listening for God—or Listening to Ourselves?

“So, IS the Holy Spirit whispering to us? Must we sit, or be still, or listen hard, or stay close, or press scars, or DO any other particular thing in order to receive this revelation all the other women seem to be receiving?”

(Elizabeth Prata – The End Time) Doing a scan of Twitter of the liberal women you will find a plethora of references to listening to the Holy Spirit’s whisper. And of course these liberal ladies have all sorts of advice on how to catch that breezy whisper so that you can hear it and obey it. Continue reading

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 “𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞”

(Robert A.J. Gagnon – Facebook post) Alan Chambers, former head of Exodus International, at the time the largest evangelical Christian ministry for helping same-sex attracted persons to live in obedience to the will of God, solicited a sexual relationship from what he thought was a 14-year old male but actually was an undercover detective. I’ll get to the details in a moment.

I feel very sad for Alan despite the fact that Alan burned Exodus to the ground (metaphorically speaking) in June 2013. I feel also for his wife Lesli and his two adopted children. May God work redemptively in all their lives during this difficult time, especially in Alan to reclaim him for the very purpose that God made him to fulfill….

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Cuba Falling: Today Is ‘the Beginning of the End’ — and Rubio’s Powerful Message

“It means some justice for the Cuban people. For 67 years, we have been ignored by everybody — the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the European Union, everybody. So, we hope this is the beginning of the downfall of the Castro regime… and we’re ready to go back and help with the reconstruction of our country, with work, with money, with investment, and with love.” Oscar Fernandez

(Sarah Anderson – PJ Media) Folks, I think we’ve officially reached the tipping point when it comes to the fall of communist Cuba. If anyone else was president, I wouldn’t buy it myself, but Donald Trump is, and I do. Continue reading

‘Let’s get it done!’ Al Mohler Bringing Motion to Ban Female Pastors

“Notably, the current president of the SBC, Clint Pressley, supports the amendment, as do the two new confirmed presidential nominees, Willy Rice and Josh Powell.”

(Protestia) SBTS President Albert Mohler announced yesterday that he intends to bring a motion “regarding the office of pastor to the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando in June 2026 to amend the Constitution of the Southern Baptist Convention,” according to a video shared on his social media channels. Continue reading

Republicans Finally Get Serious About Purging the Squishes

“The “Harumph!” Republicans in Washington are learning that buddying up to the lunatic Democrats doesn’t have any upside. This isn’t about blindly supporting Trump; it’s about representing their constituents like elected officials in a representative republic are supposed to.” 

(Stephen Kruiser – PJ Media) One of the eternally frustrating things about being a Republican is the fact that, quite often, some elected officials in the GOP are indistinguishable from the Democrats. In Congress, legislation that is important to real Republicans can be held hostage by one or two squishes who prefer attention to principles. The bitterly ironic thing is that they always use principles as their excuse for giving their constituents and colleagues a shiv in the back. Continue reading

Francis Chan Puts Out New Movie Promoting Unity Between Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox

“This trajectory didn’t just begin yesterday. People who have been paying attention saw this coming a long time ago. We watched Chan rebuke men for evangelizing Roman Catholics. We watched him remove his shoes and sit on stage while Catholic priests prayed over him. We watched him refuse to preach the Gospel clearly to Roman Catholics because he supposedly didn’t feel “led” by the Holy Spirit to do so….” 

(The Dissenter) For years now, I’ve been warning people about Francis Chan. Not because I enjoy watching men slide into rank apostasy. I don’t. Frankly, it’s depressing. Francis Chan once occupied a space in evangelicalism where many Christians trusted him instinctively. Continue reading

Thinking Christianly about Complex Topics

“We can only be as assertive as we have data to back it. Ask yourself how well you can support your conclusion with actual biblical information. An abundance of evidence leads to strong conclusions; weaker or conflicting evidence encourages us to wait and see.”

(Joel Arnold – Rooted Thinking) One of the hazards of intellectual Christian discourse is to anoint ourselves as the amateur evaluators of “the Christian viewpoint” on everything—science, economics, geopolitics, how governments ought to be run, aesthetics, agriculture and whatever other fields of human discourse arise. Continue reading

Televangelist James Robison Dead at 82

Before we get to Potestia’s announcement, you need to know some background on James Robison. According to an article penned by Ken Silva back in 2014 (below) Rev Robison was a rapidly apostatizing charismatic. “It begins with what I covered…in my 2011 article James Robison and Rick Warren Working to Reverse the Protestant Reformation.” Silva revealed that the famed televangelist misled tens of thousands when he said to “Pope” Francis “Let me just say to you that I see Jesus in you; and in Christ we are brothers, we are family. Thank you for speaking the language of love that all may come to know him and love him and love one another.”

So, now that you’ve been provided with some research to consider, here’s Protestia’s piece:

Prominent Texas-based televangelist James Robison passed away this weekend at the age of 82, according to a message posted on social media by his board of directors and ministry family. Continue reading

God’s Wrath Vs. The Modern Preacher

“The modern church cannot preach this because the modern church desperately wants to be liked by the very world system God says stands under judgment. So pastors become public relations agents for divine sentimentality. They speak of love detached from holiness. Mercy detached from justice. Grace detached from repentance.”

(The Dissenter) There is something deeply unsettling about watching a man stand on a stage with a Bible in his hand, speaking with the cadence of a preacher while slowly dissolving the very attributes of God that make the gospel necessary in the first place. Not in one violent motion or overt act of apostasy where he rips pages from the Scriptures and throws them into the crowd like confetti. But far more subtle, polished, and marketable. Continue reading

After Trump: The Future of the American Right

“Either we continue to get chased out of our own neighborhoods by gangs, fentanyl zombies, and robbed by the city’s corrupt homeless-NGO elite, or we put a stop to it. We either get the tents off our streets, or we never will. We either keep on dying, or we start living.”

(Mike Sabo – American Reformer) From JD Vance’s Heir Apparent Status to Spencer Pratt’s L.A. Insurgency

After the 2028 presidential election draws closer, the question of who will be Donald Trump’s heir looms. When Trump exits the national political stage on January 20, 2029, at the age of 82, his successor may already have been sworn in that day as the 48th President of the United States. Despite possible fallout from the war in Iran and what looks to be a difficult midterm, all signs point to Vice President JD Vance. Continue reading

John Fetterman Is Nuking His Party, and It’s Brutal!

“Fetterman wasn’t done. He went a step further and named an actual, self-described communist seeking a Senate seat in Maine. Graham Platner, the presumptive nominee who had an actual Nazi tattoo on his chest until he covered it up for his campaign…”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is clearly done playing nice. He may not be leaving his party, but in a recent interview with Reason, he called out what the dangerous lurch toward socialist — and even communist — extremism inside the Democratic Party. Continue reading

‘Pastor’ Mark Driscoll Under Fire For Implying Mary Would Consider Aborting Jesus

“We last covered Mark Driscoll in our article Fox News Driscoll, which we catalogued him openly lying to his congregants, and also after we commented on his bizarre porno-visions…”

(Protestia) Trinity Bible Church “pastor” Mark Driscoll is under fire for implying on X that Jesus’ mother may have considered aborting him if a Planned Parenthood had been nearby.

“May was a teen mom and Jesus had no earthly father. It’s a good thing there was no Planned Parenthood in Nazareth.” Continue reading

JD Hall Calls Out Mike Winger

“What looks from the outside like the charismatic movement holding itself accountable is, on examination, the movement identifying figures who have become liabilities and executing them publicly before their scandals contaminate the broader institution. The theology survives every time.” 

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) JD Hall, of Insight To Incite, one of the largest Christian substacks, recently called out Mike Winger, one of the largest Christian YouTubers. In a recent article titled, “Mike Winger, Controlled Polemics, and PR in a Discernment Mask,” Hall characterizes some of Winger’s seminal work as “an entertaining post-mortem on an already-cooked career[s]. Continue reading

The Moral Collapse of America and God’s Looming Judgment

“And once that happens, the moral descent is not dramatic at first. It’s weirdly normal. And that’s the creepy part. Everybody keeps mowing their lawns and posting vacation photos while the foundations liquefy beneath their feet.”

(The Dissenter) Rome had a strange smell near the end of its empire. Historians don’t really talk about that part. They write about military campaigns and collapsing currencies and corrupt emperors with grapes hanging from their fingers while boys danced in silk before them. Continue reading

Why Do Christians Suffer?

“Why, then, do the children of God suffer so greatly in this world? We suffer for the glory of His name. The more impossible the situation, the more clearly God’s grace and power can be seen in us. Although the examples I cited above relate to persecution, this truth applies to every instance of Christian suffering.”

(Christopher Collins – TruthScript) Not far from my present location is North Korea, a place of torment and death for Christians. Even closer is China, a land where faithful Christians are harassed and jailed with impunity. Both once fell under the shadow of the Japanese Empire, in which realm Christians were imprisoned and tortured for many years. Continue reading

So Help me God

“The giant takeaway is that “we the people” are now being routinely deceived on vital matters by an ideological and corrupt press.  And many of us don’t even care.”

(Bill O’Reilly) In court, we are compelled to swear that the truth be told.  If you lie, you commit a crime: perjury.

But few are concerned about perjury.  Ask any attorney.  You can fabricate all you want; nobody much cares. Continue reading