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

Are Christians Perfect? Yes…and No

(West Bredenhof – Abounding Grace) Atheists and agnostics love to discredit God’s Word by trotting out Bible contradictions. You can easily find lists of them online. We shouldn’t be afraid of these “contradictions.”  The vast majority of them have simple explanations which easily defang them.  Let’s briefly look at one of these alleged contradictions. It involves these two passages:

Philippians 3:12, “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.” Continue reading

Other Biden Aides Have Invoked the Fifth, but One Spoke Candidly to Lawmakers This Week

“Americans want to know, was Joe Biden in fact aware of what the autopen was being used to sign his name on, or was in fact some family members or high-level officials in the Biden administration just acting unilaterally as president of the United States and using the autopen?”

(Leah Barkoukis – Townhall) Ron Klain, former President Biden’s chief of staff, told the House Oversight Committee that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan expressed concerns in 2023 and 2024 that the 46th president was “not politically viable.” Continue reading

Decades-Long Epstein Coverup Was Mainly for ‘Hollywood CEOs’

“And I find it funny that, while we’re talking about Epstein right now, what about the previous four years under Biden? Nothing. What about Obama? Nothing… For those that think that President Trump was on that flight or on Epstein Island, let me tell you, we would already know about it,” he said. “We would have known about it before the first time that he ran.”

(Breitbart) As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) has some background with the purported files of the late Jeffrey Epstein and wants to see them released to the public, once the identities of his victims are protected. Continue reading

Andrew Klavan Uses John MacArthur To Promote Gay Agenda

“This incident underscores the continuing battle between the more mainstream Con Inc voices and the dissident right that desires to be a distinctly Christian movement.”

(Evangelical Dark Web) On July 22, 2025, The Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan posted a 9-minute video discussing what John MacArthur said about his gay son Spencer. We were interested in what Klavan had to say because he has been taking heat lately regarding his son’s sinful lifestyle. What we found was absolutely disgusting, and a clip was posted on 𝕏 in order to bring attention to this travesty…. Continue reading

The Rise of Technocratic Religion

“We were never called to relevance. We were always called to risk. The Church was born in the heat of Pentecost, not the glow of stage lights. She was fed by martyrs, not marketers. Built on prophets, not brand managers….She is a holy mess. A muddy, blood-stained bride. And she is glorious because her Lord is glorious.”

(Donovan Riley – The Ragged Word) In the age of platforms and protocols, the Church is tempted to forget she has a soul.

Power is shifting. Not to kings or parliaments. Not to priests or poets. But to the unelected minds behind code and control. Men and women who do not govern with swords or ballots, but with data, dashboards, and the soft leash of convenience. Continue reading

Revenge or Justice?

“They bushwhacked the 2017 presidential transition. They hamstrung the Trump presidency.  And they may well have hurt Trump’s 2020 election bid. Summed up, here is the damage caused by the Trump-Putin collusion lies.”

(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness) Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just released a trove of apparently once-classified documents—with promises of much more to follow.

The new material describes the role of the Obama administration’s intelligence and investigatory directors—purportedly along with President Obama himself—in undermining the 2016 Trump presidential campaign…. Continue reading

William Lane Craig Enters the Realm of Open Theism, Paints Blasphemous Picture of God Subservient to Time

This is not just a theological misfire—it’s a full-scale doctrinal demolition. This is Open Theism in its purest, most uncut form, wrapped in a lab coat and served with a smug grin. Craig has essentially looked the God of Scripture in the face and said, “You’re not actually omniscient—you’re just up-to-date.”

(Dissenter) It takes a certain kind of brainpower to stumble headfirst into heresy while thinking you’ve just unlocked the deepest philosophical vault in heaven. But that’s exactly what William Lane Craig does with his recent theological gymnastics. Craig is so smart, he’s stupid—literally, because this one’s a doozy. Continue reading

Tranquilizers, mood swings and rage: House Intel chair dishes dirt Russia dug up on Hillary

“I think it was on January 6, 2017, that’s when things really started to accelerate with regard to what the deep state was engaged in. I say deep state because, before I got on the Intelligence Committee, I was not inclined to entertain the notion of this deep state until I saw it for myself.”

(Charlotte Hazard – Just the News) House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, R-Ark., is confirming that Russia gathered dirt on Hillary Clinton worthy of a hard rock song — including tranquilizers, mood swings and outbursts — but withheld it during the 2016 election in hopes of using it against her if she were elected president. Continue reading

Analysis Conclusively Confirms Study Finding Same-sex Parenting Bad for Kids

“Young and Cumberworth found something unexpected and remarkable: not one of the two million significant alternatives resulted in positive outcomes for LGBT-parented children. Although often with smaller effects, every analysis confirmed the Regnerus study’s central finding that children turned out better with intact biological parents than with LGBT parents….”

(Michael Tennant – New American) Using a new method they developed for analyzing social-science data, a pair of sociologists was “surprised” to discover that, no matter how they sliced the data, they could not refute a 2012 study finding that children of same-sex “parents” fare much worse than those of married heterosexual parents. Continue reading

Tulsi Gabbard Just Made Obama Eat It on the Russian Collusion Hoax

“Gabbard’s office released a declassified 2020 House Intelligence Committee report that showed that the Obama intelligence team had ZERO evidence of collusion between Donald Trump and Moscow, which tilted the 2016 race, but Obama ordered it to be published anyway.”  

(Matt Vespa – Townhall) President Trump was on the warpath yesterday, accusing former President Barack Obama of treason for his role in the Russian Collusion hoax. His office issued a weak sauce statement, the media did their party trying to dismiss this story, and the liberal pundit class tried to claim that this was conspiracy talk and a distraction from the Epstein files…. Continue reading

The Dilemma of False Dilemmas in the Church

Another hallmark example exists of a false dilemma being used in the church. In her book, Shepherds for Sale, Megan Basham points out how many stances—on everything from immigration to taking Covid-19 vaccines to transgender issues—are dependent on a love your neighbor principle. As Basham points out, the argument goes something like this: “Why should the United States reward tens of millions of illegal immigrants with citizenship despite the fact they broke our laws, and immigration drives down wages for blue-collar workers? Simple: love your neighbor.”

(Joshua Parcha – American Reformer) Chip and Joanna Gaines have a new show out on their Magnolia Network titled, “Back to the Frontier.” The show “is facing backlash from conservatives evangelicals because the show features a same-sex couple” and “their 10-year-old twin sons who were born via a surrogate,” according to AL.com and The Daily Beast. Responding to this controversy, Chip Gaines posted the following on X: Continue reading

That Escalated Quickly — Obama Russia Hoax Edition

“I’m too jaded to believe that we’ll ever see an Obama or a Clinton face charges, but how about a Christopher Steele, a James Comey, an Andrew McCabe, a John Brennan, or any of the many other high-level underlings who made Russiagate happen?”

(Stephen Kruiser – PJ Media) Way back in the first week of 2023 — long before the 2024 Republican primary slog got underway — I wrote that I wanted President Trump to go scorched-earth if he got a second term in office. We were only two years into the Joe Biden nightmare and I needed something positive to focus on to keep myself from ending up as a functionally alcoholic groomer in a Tijuana Donkey Show. Continue reading

The Rainbow Flag is the New Swastika

“We are not witnessing the dawn of tolerance or building a brighter future. We are witnessing the twilight of reason, marching, one banner at a time, into a brave new darkness—where reality is malleable, children are pawns, and truth is whatever the regime says it is.”

(The Dissenter) The image [on the site] says it all. Wembley Way—that grand corridor of British pride leading up to the iconic Wembley Stadium—now draped not in the Union Jack, not in team colors, not even in neutral, celebratory decoration. No, the entire promenade has been lined, lockstep and in perfect uniformity, with massive banners of the so-called “Progress Pride” flag. Continue reading

All My Christian Heroes Are Now Dead…Or Dead To Me

One by one, these heroes began to fall. They began to say and do things that did not line up with what Scripture teaches ….precious few held the line and finished well. R. C. Sproul and John MacArthur were among the few who did not waver. They stood strong while other men gave in to “the spirit of the age.”

(Geoff Kujawa – Clear Truth Media) John MacArthur is dead. And with him, the last of my heroes.

I became a believer in 2000 as a freshman in college and immediately went deep into theology. I looked for, and found, many voices I could reliably listen to for content to take me deeper into my faith. I quickly found guys like John Piper, Louie Giglio, Mark Dever, Al Mohler, R. C. Sproul, Tim Keller, Alistair Begg, and of course, John MacArthur. Continue reading

Breaking: Obama lackey Ben Rhodes might wanna lawyer up…

“Americans will finally learn the truth about how in 2016, intelligence was politicized and weaponized by the most powerful people in the Obama Administration to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump, subverting the will of the American people and undermining our democratic republic.” 

(Revolver) John Durham spent four years and ten million dollars investigating the phony Russia collusion hoax—and what did we get? Some rando FBI lawyer was caught fudging an email for a surveillance warrant.

That’s it. Continue reading

Joanna Gaines Is Super LGBTQ Affirming, Praises Gay ‘Throuple’ Anouncement?

“In this post he reveals “I’m in love with a man who is so good. My life is so good, and I am so thankful. No more hate.” This man became the third partner in the couple’s relationship, with the three forming a ‘throuple’ to raise the children together.”

(Protestia) Professing Christian couple and TV personalities Chip and Joanna Gaines, known for their HGTV show ‘Fixer Upper’ and the Magnolia brand, are facing criticism for their decision to prominently feature a same-sex couple in their new series, Back to the Frontier. While this is bad enough, a deep dive into her social media history paints an even more disturbing picture. Continue reading

A Wake-Up Call for Late Night

“Eighty million Americans voted for the President. Few of them can stomach Steve.  Ideological zealotry at midnight can be tedious. The all-time king of late night, Johnny Carson, understood that.  Old Johnny got his zingers in, but he rarely tried to demean anyone.”

(Bill O’Reilly) Stephen Colbert has been vaporized, cancelled by CBS.  Donald Trump is celebrating.  Liberal Hollywood is outraged!  Regular folks don’t care.

Goodnight, everybody. Continue reading

The Biden Admin Stole Your Data to Rig Elections and Censor Speech

“If this data weaponization is left unchecked, it will not be limited to Democrats or the Biden administration. History has shown that the erosion of freedoms for one group inevitably paves the way for broader abuses.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Jason Chaffetz has delivered a devastating exposé that should terrify every American who values his or her constitutional rights. Writing in the New York Post, the former House Oversight Committee chairman pulls back the curtain on what may be the most comprehensive assault on American democracy we’ve witnessed in our lifetime—and it’s happening with our own tax dollars. Continue reading

We Now Have the Smoking Gun Proving Biden House Pressured DOJ To Target Parents

“The Garland memo was never about public safety—no credible, actionable threat justified the mobilization of the FBI against parents attending school board meetings. It was about intimidation, about making an example of ordinary Americans who dared challenge the ideological orthodoxy being forced on their children.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) The revelations unveiled by America First Legal mark a seismic moment in the ongoing debate over the weaponization of the Department of Justice under the Biden administration. For years, concerned parents who spoke up at school board meetings found themselves caught in the crosshairs of a federal government wielding its power not to protect free speech, but to stifle dissent…. Continue reading

GOP Erupts After Gabbard Exposes Obama Admin’s ‘Treasonous’ Intel Plot Framing Trump: ‘Makes Watergate Look Like Amateur Hour’

“Joe Biden and Barack Obama knew about it. Hillary Clinton fabricated it. The FBI orchestrated it. And the mainstream media sold it. Trump-Russia collusion was all a made-up HOAX. We NEED accountability.”

(Joshua Klein – Breitbart) Republican lawmakers delivered a thunderous response following Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s explosive declassification of documents proving the Obama administration deliberately manufactured intelligence to create the false Trump-Russia collusion narrative, with revelations that expose what one Republican described as a disinformation campaign against the American people that “makes Watergate look like amateur hour.” Continue reading

Dershowitz: Trump Isn’t Hiding the Epstein Creeps; These Two People Are

Watch the videos.

(Kevin Downey JR – PJ Media) Alan Dershowitz, a renowned constitutional lawyer and former counsel for Jeffrey Epstein, who has been a thorn in the side of the party he votes for when it comes to all things Trump, is spilling his guts about Epstein. So let’s dig through the entrails and see what he is talking about.

FACT-O-RAMA! I spend much of my time rubbing elbows with MAGAheads at The America First Warehouse, the most patriotic venue in the galaxy. Sure, a lot of us are disappointed that Team Trump hasn’t released Epstein’s “list,” but we as a team are not “fractured” or “divided” as the Operation Mockingbird media is claiming. Continue reading

In a Chaotic Time, The Strength of MacArthur Inspired Us to be Unshaken

“We don’t need novel strategies when it comes to ministry. We just need to get back to the basics. We need to get back to the Bible. Defending truth in the public square is loving your neighbor. Warning against lies that destroy souls is gospel work. The idea that cultural confrontation and gospel proclamation are mutually exclusive is itself a modern invention.”

(J. Chase Davis – American Reformer) To me, John MacArthur was everything I didn’t want to be. To be frank, I found him unbearable. I was a young church planter. I wanted to reach the city and break bread with sinners. The goal was to be able to articulate the gospel in understandable terms to a secular audience without offending them. But this didn’t stay at the level of ideas. It was a lifestyle. While no God-fearing minister would have admitted it, the goal was to fit in and be “cool.”… Continue reading

AAP claims doctors don’t profit from vaxing kids. Receipts says otherwise…

“Whether the cash came directly from the feds or flowed through Medicaid, insurance plans, or private networks, the result was the same: doctors got paid to push vaccines, and that fact destroys the narrative the AAP is so desperately clinging to.”

(Revolver) While the media and medical establishment scramble to cover for each other, the truth keeps leaking out, and as you can imagine, it’s not pretty. This week, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) took to X to slam RFK Jr. for saying what a lot of us already knew: pediatricians made money, real, big money, off the COVID vaccine push, especially on kids. Continue reading

Donald Trump Calls to Release ‘All Pertinent Grand Jury Testimony’ in Jeffrey Epstein Case

(Paul Bois – Breitbart) President Donald Trump called to release “all pertinent grand jury testimony” relating to the Jeffrey Epstein case in the wake of increased scrutiny over the convicted sex offender’s dealings with high-profile public figures.

Writing on his TruthSocial account, the president called the Epstein controversy a “scam” perpetuated by Democrats.

“Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to court approval. This SCAM, perpetuated by Democrats, should end, right now!” he wrote. Continue reading

An Epidemic of Mal-Parenting

Mr. Williams has made some excellent suggestions; however, he neglected to include Bible reading and taking children to church regularly. It’s easy to see why he excluded them.  

(Armstrong Williams – The Patriot Post) The nation is afflicted with an epidemic of mal-parenting. How do we know? The persistence of shocking levels of juvenile delinquency and crime. The posterchild case is Ethan Crumbley, guilty of murdering four students at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan in 2021 and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Continue reading