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

Investigating Corporate Filings: Religious Non-Profits Reported Dead People as Board Members

(Barry Bowen – Trinity Foundation) Televangelist Marcus Lamb of the Daystar Television Network died in 2021, and his parents died a decade before, but they were all listed as board members or registered agents in a 2024 corporate filing to Texas Secretary of State from Daystar affiliate WPXS Inc. In a separate case, the National Center for Faith-Based Initiative in Florida also listed a dead individual in its corporate filings.

Corporate filings, which include articles of incorporation and annual reports that disclose board members, reveal the power structure of both for-profit businesses and non-profit organizations. Continue reading

We Will Soon Be Looking at a Communist Caucus in Congress

(Mary Dowling) Democratic socialists, who are communists, are replacing Democrats throughout the country. With the communists who have won their primaries or will win them and communists already in Congress, Democrats are looking at Communists winning 20 seats in the House and some in the Senate, enough to have their own little communist caucus. That is enough to shut down the government and stop all kinds of laws if Democrats take over the House.

Democratic socialists have lost the blue-collar voters, and they are doing poorly with pro-job, tough on crime, Black, and Hispanic people…. Continue reading

When Civilization Forgets Genesis: The Moral Chaos of Rejecting the Creation Order

“Anti-Genesis activists routinely grant greater emotional urgency to animal suffering than to abortion. This contradiction is so glaring that it will blind anyone willing to look at it honestly. The same political coalitions horrified by fishing hooks also defend the dismemberment of unborn babies as “healthcare.” The same culture demanding legal protections for animals increasingly celebrates gender ideology that denies the created distinction between male and female (Genesis  1:27; c.f. Matthew 19:4).”  

(Jason Mills – TruthScript) There are ideas so absurd they once belonged safely in satire.

Imagine telling your grandfather—a man who hunted, farmed, and fed his family from the land—that one day a political movement would treat killing animals for food as moral barbarism. Explain that raising livestock, fishing in rivers, and harvesting game in season would be criminalized. Continue reading

When ‘Sound Doctrine’ Gets Redefined

(Amy Spreeman – Berean Research) One of the most effective ways false teaching slips into a church isn’t through outright denial of biblical truth. More often, it comes disguised in familiar Christian language that sounds fine at first glance.

When looking for a solid church to attend, most of us start with the statement of faith or the “We Believe” tab on the church website. At first glance, everything sounds rock solid. Foundational doctrines are accurate. The Gospel seems clear. And then we attend – or even join – this church, and we find out that what is actually taught is very different from what we saw online. We discover that the historic, biblical meanings have been quietly swapped out for something else entirely. Continue reading

Trump Demands Congress Pass Birthright Citizenship Legislation

(Cameron Arcand – Townhall) President Donald Trump is calling on Congress to pass legislation to narrow the scope of birthright citizenship after an unfavorable Supreme Court ruling for the administration on Tuesday.

“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” he said in a Truth Social post. Continue reading

The Supreme Court Just Settled the Trans Athletes Debate

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to uphold state laws banning biological males from competing on female sports teams, delivering a tremendous victory for female athletes and the commonsense principle that biological sex matters in athletic competition.

Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion in West Virginia v. B.P.J., which the court combined with Little v. Hecox. Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch each wrote a concurring opinion…. Continue reading

The Red Menace

“Those who want a centralized economic system run by various governments are sacrificing their own freedom and supporting a police state. There has never been a communist government without one. There are many foolish people on this planet, and the rise of progressive governance supports that statement.”

(Bill O’Reilly) Bernie Sanders, Mamdani, and AOC are not “Democratic Socialists.”  In fact, there’s no such thing. You can be a socialist or a communist, but the DS party doesn’t exist and never has in America. The Mugwumps had their day, but no Democratic Socialists. Continue reading

The NEW Axis of Evil: Will the Antisemites on the Left and Right Join Forces and Play Kingmaker in 2028?

“Assuming the GOP nominates a pro-Israel candidate in 2028, there’s a high probability that the woke right will switch sides. That’s what single-issue voters do. Which is why the Republican Party would be wise to steal a page from William F. Buckley’s playbook: Attack and discredit the leaders of the woke right BEFORE the 2028 election. Expose them as crackpots. Expel them from the conservative movement.”

(Scott Pritzker – PJ Media) “There was an outsized focus on issues connected to the Middle East,” said Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, explaining how the socialists, communists, and enemies of “Western civilization” routed the DNC’s normies (such as they are) this week.

Watch the clip on the site. Continue reading

Phil Johnson Announces Retirement from Grace To You

(Protestia) Phil Johnson, Executive Director of Grace to You, founder and former curator of The Spurgeon Archive, longtime friend and partner of the late John MacArthur, and one of our favorite people ever, announced on Facebook that he is officially retiring after 43 years.

Describing it as a ‘bittersweet’ announcement, he shared:

I’ve had a wonderful career at Grace to You for the past 43 years. My plan in the mid-1990s was to retire from GTY at age 66 or move back to the Midwest, and pastor a small church, perhaps in Oklahoma or Texas. Continue reading

The Democrat Party Is Having a Meltdown, and It’s About to Get Nasty

“The Democrat Party is being cannibalized from the inside, and its leadership has no idea what to do about it. Now you’ve got a sitting senator publicly suggesting her own party’s top two leaders need to go.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) The Democrat Party has a problem that the establishment doesn’t have a clue how to deal with. Its most radical members of Congress aren’t radical enough for the activist base anymore, and one by one, they’re getting picked off by candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America. Continue reading

Dispensationalism, Ultra-dispensationalism, Hyper-dispensationalism. Is there a Difference?

FLASHBACK FRIDAY!

(Marsha West – Christian Research Network) Evangelical leaders sat by wordless while narcissistic self-serving false teachers covertly, and in some cases overtly, infiltrated the visible Church. What can only be described as laboratory experiments on evangelicals has been carried out by purveyors of poisonous teaching. For decades, many in the evangelical community, like caged lab rats, have been jabbed full of every theological toxin imaginable. It is almost impossible to keep up with all the toxic teaching that’s spreading throughout the Church. What’s even more difficult is to ferret out the men and women who are spreading half-truths and outright lies.

Even so, some of us involved in online discernment actually do try to uncover the dung that’s being fed to undiscerning sheep.  On my wolf hunting expeditions, I often sniff them out on YouTube (YT) where a gazillion wolves host their own channels. To be fair, there are also many excellent Christian teachers, godly men and women, whose sole aim is to bring biblical truth to their viewers.

Something else you should know about YT is that you’re bound to come across a LARGE and ever-growing number of online “Watchmen.” (Who are these people? Scroll to the end and you’ll see some of them on “Watchmen Greatest Hits”) The Watchmen are men and women who propound their own personal view of eschatology. Their focus is mainly on the Rapture of the Church that they claim is “imminent.” So, day in and day out (some for several years now) these crystal ball gazers lean into a desktop computer camera speculating about the return of Christ for His church, i.e. the rapture, that will be soon—very soon—could be any day now—might even be before Thanksgiving 2020—oops! Maybe Christmas—nope. To the Watchmen’s shame, as 2020 came and went, their faithful followers hadn’t been “caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” Alas, here we are mid-2022 and the Watchmen followers remain Earth bound, most likely feeling a bit bewitched, bothered, bewildered and totally discombobulated.

Woe to the Watchmen. Continue reading

PCUSA’s Next Culture-War Fight: Monogamy vs. Polyamory

“Here is found the most fundamental difference between liberalism and Christianity —liberalism is altogether in the imperative mood, while Christianity begins with a triumphant indicative; liberalism appeals to man’s will, while Christianity announces, first, a gracious act of God.”

(Chris Queen – PJ Media) Traditional biblical principles continue to fall like dominoes in what we call mainline Protestantism. Even though the shift from fundamentalism to modernism began in the 1920s, the big lurches to the left began in the ’50s when the United Methodist Church began to ordain women as pastors. Continue reading

SCOTUS Allows Border Curbs on Asylum Seekers

“Despite this win, many migration experts recognize that U.S. asylum laws need major rewrites to deter future waves of economic migrants who try to get U.S. jobs by claiming persecution in their far-distant homelands.”

(Neil Munro – Breitbart) The decision is a useful win for citizens and border security, partly because President Joe Biden excused his lax border policies and subsequent welcome for 10 million economic migrants by insisting he lacked the authority to curb asylum requests.

The six judges agreed: Continue reading

The Democrat Party Is Dead

“No Democrat is safe. Just look at NY-10, where Brad Lander demolished Rep. Dan Goldman, grabbing nearly 65% of the vote. Goldman was one of the loudest anti-Trump voices in Congress, and he led impeachment efforts against President Trump. None of that mattered. His support for Israel and his refusal to endorse Mamdani are the reasons he lost.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) New York just gave America a preview of who’s actually running the Democrat Party, and it isn’t Hakeem Jeffries.

On Tuesday, all three socialist candidates endorsed by socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani swept their targeted congressional primaries…. Continue reading

Report: Foreign Agent for Israel Gained Control Over Charlie Kirk’s Show After His Murder

(Veronika Kyrylenko – The New American) A new investigation by journalist Max Blumenthal argues that The Charlie Kirk Show came under the control of a federally registered agent of Israel after Kirk was killed.

Blumenthal documents a striking sequence. After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, his show remained with Salem Media Network, where Brad Parscale, a Republican digital strategist and former Trump campaign manager, had recently become chief strategy officer.

Shortly after the tragic Utah event, Parscale had also begun working as a registered foreign agent for Israel. Continue reading

Fast and Furious 2.0?’ Biden DEA let 1M fentanyl pills flow to streets, whistleblower lawyer says

“Leavitt compared his client’s allegations to the Obama-era Fast and Furious scandal in which the federal government allowed semiautomatic weapons to flow across the border to the drug cartels, putting American lives in danger.”

(Katherine Pugh – Just the News) A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has evidence that his agency and federal prosecutors let more than 1 million fentanyl pills flow onto the streets of New Mexico during the Biden era and then tried to silence him from testifying after he blew the whistle, the agent’s lawyer tells Just the News. Continue reading

MLB Backtracks On Pride Night Controversy In Letter To Senator Josh Hawley

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) In a June 19, 2026, letter to U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr., addressed concerns over warnings issued to three San Francisco Giants pitchers for writing references to Genesis 9:12-16 on their rainbow-themed Pride Night caps. The incident, which occurred during a June 12 game against the Chicago Cubs at Oracle Park, sparked debates about religious expression, uniform rules, and perceived double standards in professional sports.

Pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker inscribed “Gen 9:12-16” on their caps…. Continue reading

The Danger of NAR Church Leven

“At first, the [Cuckoo] egg looks harmless. It is just a conference, a book study, a worship song, a guest speaker, a “revival culture” seminar, or a prophetic ministry night. But once the egg is accepted, it begins to grow inside a nest that others built. The church may still have the old name on the sign, but the spiritual DNA inside the church begins to change.”

(Don Pirozok – The Danger of NAR Church Leven) The danger is that the leaven does not usually enter saying, “We are here to take over your church.” It enters saying, “We are here to bring revival, destiny, activation, alignment, impartation, and greater authority.” But once accepted, it quietly redefines Christianity. Humility becomes greatness. Elders become inferior to apostles. Scripture becomes incomplete without fresh revelation.

The Great Commission becomes cultural takeover. The blessed hope becomes delayed until the church conquers the world. The cross becomes a stepping-stone to human exaltation rather than the place where the old man is crucified. Continue reading

The Passion Translation’s Biggest Supporter, Bethel Church, Drops Bible From Bookstore

Bill Johnson’s endorsement of it is featured prominently on its website, where he hypes it as “one of the greatest things to happen with Bible translation in my lifetime.”

(Protestia) For the last few weeks, The Passion Translation has been getting beaten up and bashed, in light of a devastating exposé by the YouTube channel Minor Prophets.

The video reveals the extent to which its creator, Brian Simmons, routinely plagiarized or outright lied about where the translation came from and how he produced it, demonstrating repeatedly that much of Simmons’ “translation” involved just making things up. Continue reading

Mysticism in the Church: IS Mysticism Biblical?

“The practices of silence and solitude are not about what is often called “quiet time” when one is having time alone to read the Bible or pray. These practices involve cultivating a state of silence, sometimes using certain techniques to quiet the mind, which can induce self-hypnosis. It is taught that one must be still and silent in order to commune with God more intimately, to perhaps “hear” God, to know God more deeply, and/or to experience his love. None of the practices discussed above is modeled or taught in Scripture, either explicitly or implicitly. Moreover, they do not reflect the Bible’s teachings on prayer, and that one knows God through Christ and is transformed by the Holy Spirit.”

(Marcia Montenegro – Midwest Christian Outreach) There is often a conflation of mysticism with Christianity and with the Bible, so that many believe that Christianity is mystical, or that the Bible speaks of mystical events. Is this the case? And what is mysticism anyway? Continue reading

Should Pro-Israel Conservatives Trust JD Vance?

“Donald Trump — a man the MAGAverse trusts, respects, and admires — thought highly enough of him to elevate him to the vice presidency. If that’s not a glowing testimonial, I don’t know what is. But we don’t really know what’s in his heart.”

(Scott Pinsker – PJ Media) My wife of over 20 years is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed citizen of Holland. (And, according to 23andMe, she also has a high percentage of Neanderthal DNA. That’s probably why she really likes bananas.)… Continue reading

Tulsi Gabbard Makes a Major Move On Her Last Day As DNI

“…Tulsi Gabbard has shocked the deep state by on her last day in office releasing bombshell files that Dr. Fauci used TAX DOLLARS to fund the WUHAN LAB responsible for COVID and millions of deaths And he purposefully covered it up. HE LIED TO CONGRESS! Fauci deserves charges!”

(Dmitri Bolt – Townhall) Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard made a major move on her final day in the Trump administration on Thursday, announcing that she would release a series of communications and documents that she says show Dr. Anthony Fauci directed millions of taxpayer dollars toward gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, worked to suppress the COVID-19 lab-leak theory and later lied about those efforts to Congress under oath. Continue reading

Starting to Get the Feeling That We May Never Get Along With Iran

(Stephen Kruiser – PJ Media) While I am typically reluctant to delve into complex international political stories — my expertise is closer to home — this one is almost impossible to ignore. Also, the internet is the place where people go to pontificate on subjects about which they know nothing. Kidding. I know something, but I won’t be pontificating.

There are a couple of things that I know for sure about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that the United States and Iran have kinda/sorta agreed to. The first is that, if you have enough time to go through a lot of what has been written about it, you will be able to find something to confirm whatever it is that you think about it. Continue reading

Unconstitutional Gun Control Law in Historic Ruling

“The Court pointed out that historical laws targeted those whose drinking left them “incapacitated” and unable to manage their own affairs, not anyone who simply used intoxicants.”

(Jeff Charles – Townhall) The Supreme Court on Thursday handed down a historic ruling striking down a federal law banning gun possession by those who use illegal drugs.

The lawsuit centered on a Texas man who was arrested after admitting to regularly using marijuana while being a gun owner. In a unanimous decision in United States v. Hemani the Supreme Court ruled that the law violates the Second Amendment and narrowed how the government can enforce the ban. Continue reading

MLB Warns Players That Christian Views Toward Homosexuality Will Not Be Tolerated

“If you’ve been watching the news, or you keep up with sports at all (I really don’t), you’re probably aware that the MLB has “issued warnings” to three San Francisco Giants pitchers after they wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.”

(The Dissenter) Looking at these “Pride Night” spectacles, it’s hard not to think of the old Dionysian cult festivals of the ancient world. The modern LGBT cult may not be offering wine to a Greek god, but the similarities between the movements are difficult to ignore.

Dionysus—literally the effeminate god of ancient queerdom—represented ecstasy, excess, the suspension of ordinary restraints, and the deliberate destruction of social boundaries. His festivals were celebrations of liberation from order itself, especially sexual order. Continue reading