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

Progressive Christianity Watch: Flirty God, Lesbian Angels, and Other Things Not in Your Study Bible

“Progressive Christians love to take the “love chapter” of 1 Corinthians out of context to justify everything from homosexuality to, in this case, satanists getting married at a church. It’s too bad she didn’t share the truth about Christianity with this couple; that would’ve been truth to rejoice in.”

(Chris Queen – PJ Media) It’s been a while since I’ve written a Progressive Christianity Watch. I have a trio of doozies for you today, so enjoy.

Let’s head over to Houston, where Rev. Lura Groen, a woman pastor (shocker) preaches at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, which is part of the far-left Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She’s also an “out bisexual.” Continue reading

Why I Strongly Warn About Alpha

“One of the most serious concerns with Alpha is its intentional ecumenical approach. The course is designed to unite participants across denominational lines, often by minimizing doctrinal distinctions. While biblical unity among true believers is important, that unity must never come at the expense of essential doctrine—especially the Gospel itself.” –Berean Research

(Amy Spreeman – Berean Research) Alpha, or The Alpha Course, has become very familiar in churches all over the world. On the surface, Alpha looks simple enough. It’s friendly. It’s relational. There’s food, conversation in small community groups, and lots of videos on an app that introduce people to the basics of Christianity in a very non-threatening way. Continue reading

BREAKING: Supreme Court Drops HUGE Ruling on the Voting Rights Act

“Democrats have spent years leaning on majority-minority districts as a structural advantage — a way to pack reliably Democratic voters into safe seats under the cover of civil rights law, unconstitutionally expanding their majority in Congress. The Court just called that strategy what it always was: using race as the predominant factor in drawing political boundaries, which the Constitution does not allow.” 

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) The Supreme Court just handed down one of the most consequential redistricting decisions in a generation — and Democrats are not going to like it one bit. Continue reading

Premarital Counseling: Concerning Wheat, Tares, and Being Born Again

“In conception, the child has the nature, the DNA, of its parents. So too, when one is born of the Holy Spirit, he or she has the nature, the DNA, of God. It cannot be otherwise. And God’s DNA produces the fruit of the Holy Spirit, i.e., the character of God. And that corresponds with the death of self. “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it cannot bear fruit …” That’s DNA talk. That’s “parenthood of God” talk.”

(David Harris – TruthScript) In an email exchange with a pastor who uses our premarital workbook (1), he mentioned premarital counseling with a couple he wasn’t sure were Christians or who professed some belief, but their lives made him question their conversion. This is a common and likely perplexing situation for pastors. I started a reply with comments and concerns about counseling premarital and married couples, but my brief reply turned into this lengthy commentary, or rather, into a lengthy question. Continue reading

Jimmy Kimmel’s Blood Feud With Melania Trump: Why Disney Fiddles as Its Magic Kingdom Burns

“But it’s not just a phantom First Amendment privilege that Kimmel is asserting. He’s also arguing that it’s the audience’s fault for misunderstanding his hilarious “joke” about Mrs. Trump….Kimmel is wrong: The First Amendment doesn’t entitle Americans “to say whatever” we want. Nor does it protect us from the consequences of our speech.”

(Scott Pinsker – PJ Media) I’m a professional political writer: PJ Media pays me to analyze politics, culture, news, and entertainment. Our business relationship isn’t complicated: I write it, and PJ Media publishes it.

But it’s a high-risk job on all sides. When you opine about controversial topics like race, gender, public policy, and war, you’ll inevitably offend someone. (And not always deliberately!) Continue reading

Like the Latest Trump Shooter, Your Child’s Teacher Could be ‘Teacher of the Month’ Too

“They are teaching these children that the nation is inherently evil, that traditional values are tools of oppression, and that “success” is defined not by virtue, but by the intensity of one’s resistance against the existing order—and that Christian conservatism is perpetuating this “injustice.”

(The Dissenter) If you needed another reason to pull your children from public schools, look no further than this latest near-tragedy. The shadow falling across our nation is not an accidental byproduct of a few “troubled” individuals—it is the inevitable destination of a decade-long, state-funded crusade to dismantle the moral foundations of our children. Continue reading

Texas Baptists to Study Relationship With Baylor University

“The “All Are Neighbors” event is set to feature two well-known self-identified gay Christians as guest speakers. It is believed this is the first time an openly gay, self-identified Christian advocacy speaker has appeared on Baylor’s campus.”

(Kendall Lyons – Ministry Watch) In an advisory sent to Texas Baptists the afternoon of April 17, Texas Baptists Executive Director Julio Guarneri said the convention will study its relationship with Baylor University following concerns over recent campus events. Continue reading

Look what dirtbag reporters were doing while shots were fired…

“This is called emotional gasoline, and it’s being dumped all over a country already on fire. And when someone unstable decides to light the match, the same people who spent years pouring fuel everywhere suddenly seem shocked and confused.”

(Revolver) Saturday night should’ve been one of those smug little DC rituals where the media dresses up, congratulates itself, and pretends it’s the brave guardian of democracy.

Instead, President Trump had to be rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after a gunman opened fire at the Washington Hilton, wounding a Secret Service agent who was saved by his protective vest. Trump, Melania, JD Vance, and cabinet officials were unharmed, and the suspect is 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen from California. Yet another left-wing, violent nutbag, hell-bent on assassinating Trump. He was taken into custody. Continue reading

America’s Red Summer is Coming

“Regarding the upcoming “Red Summer,” communists point with glee to a 2025 CATO Institute poll which “revealed the extent of this radicalization among the youth,” according to one Marxist group. It found that 62% of 18 to 34-year-olds had a favorable view of socialism – and 34% have favorable views of communism.”

(Cliff Kincaid – RenewAmerica) The American revolution was preceded by “A Great Awakening,” which also happens to be the title of a new film that gives meaning to America’s 250th birthday by highlighting our nation’s Christian heritage. But the enemies of America have other ideas. Continue reading

Let’s get real. Prayer events arranged by ‘Christians’ who deny core beliefs of the historic Christian faith DO NOT glorify God

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(Marsha West – Chistian Research Network) Six years ago the Southern Baptist Convention borrowed the Seven Mountain Mandate (7MM) from the New Apostolic Reformation/Dominionism (NAR) to promote the National Day of Prayer. To be clear, the NAR is a theological cult. So those of us involved in online Discernment were gobsmacked when we got wind that the SBC guide contained the same spheres of power as the NAR’s 7MM. Pulpit & Pen (now Protestia) took note and promptly raised a warning flag:

The SBC Executive committee released a guide designed to support members during the upcoming National Day of Prayer. Captioned ‘How to pray the 2020 theme, Pray God’s Glory Across the Earth, into the Seven Centers of Influence in America for the National Day of Prayer, May 7, 2020.‘… (Source)

In summary P&P reported that SBC’s guide was suspiciously like the NAR’s “Seven Mountain Mandate.”

Before I go any further, for those reading this who are asking what exactly is 7MM theology? Back in 2016 I published a piece entitled 7 Mountain Politics and Theology where I wrote: Continue reading

Scenes from the Trans Wars: The war on our women and children is ramping up.

“The Department for Health, however, is supposed to answer to evidence. It now faces a choice: abandon a failing model, or continue an unnecessary experiment on children to placate gender fanatics. The Finnish study must mark the end of the road for Pathways, and for the dangerous fiction of gender-affirming care.”

(Bill Muehlenberg – Cultural Watch) Today in the West all things trans are being shoved down our throats every day, every hour. As but one indication of the trans tsunami in action, two decades ago I had nothing on my website discussing transgenderism. Sure, I had plenty of articles on the homosexual revolution tearing apart the West. But now I have well over 300 pieces devoted to trans activism. Continue reading

The Cycle of Charismatic Comebacks Continues. Next up…

“When a movement drifts away from Scripture as its anchor and starts orbiting a personality, it doesn’t matter how polished the sermons are or how emotionally charged the worship feels, Christ is no longer the head in any meaningful, governing sense. He’s invoked, sure. Referenced. Sung about. But practically? The gravitational force is the leader.”

(The Dissenter) There’s a pattern in the charismatic movement—and once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Another leader crashes. Another “movement” staggers. Another circle of loyalists scrambles to explain, reinterpret, salvage. Not repent, but salvage. Not submit to Scripture, but manage the optics. And certainly not step back. But stage a comeback. Continue reading

Deleted 12 Minute Clip Of Tone-Deaf Jenn Johnson Responding To Bethel Scandals

“Jenn Johnson is acting like we don’t have text messages, witness testimony, images, video, etc. of these incidences.”

(Protestia) Jenn Johnson is the senior worship ‘pastor’ at Bethel Church in Redding, California. The co-founder of Bethel Music and Bethel Music Worship School, she is also a musician, songwriter, singer, author, and speaker. She is considered part of Bethel Church leader Bill Johnson’s inner circle, being his daughter-in-law and head pastor for decades. Continue reading

Swalwell: The Real Story Is the Cover-Up

“The real story here is how the Democrat Party controls its members through blackmail. It’s got a blackmail file on ALL of its politicians, and it uses them to leverage and control them until it’s time to release it! That is how sick and twisted the Democrat Party is. That’s the next thread we’ve got to pull out here.”

(Mark Alexander – The Patriot Post) “It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” —Thomas Jefferson (1785)

Remember when, during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Demo rising star Rep. Eric Swalwell  proclaimed Kavanaugh was unfit because of allegations of sexual misconduct? Those allegations were false, but it didn’t matter to the opportunistic Swalwell. He posted on social media: “Support survivors. Believe survivors. We are with you.” Continue reading

Here’s How Trump Can Nuke Virginia’s New Gerrymandered Map — And It’s Brilliant!

“That has to stop. And there may be a remarkable way to stop it right now.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Virginia used to be a model of fair redistricting. That reputation is now gone.

On Tuesday, Virginia Democrats passed a redistricting plan that transforms one of the most fairly apportioned states in the country into one of the most blatantly gerrymandered.

Keep in mind that Virginia only narrowly backed Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in 2024 by roughly five points…. Continue reading

This is What Happens When a Charlatan is Your Spiritual Advisor

(The Dissenter) Over Easter—of all times—spiritual charlatan, Paula White, stood in front of cameras and compared Donald Trump to Christ. Not subtly. Not loosely. Directly. She took the betrayal, the suffering, the cost, the language that belongs to the cross alone—and laid it at the feet of the president as if it were even remotely transferable.

That should have been the moment. The hard stop. The line in the sand where everyone in that orbit said, “No—this is out of bounds.” Continue reading

Is Disgraced IHOP-KC Founder Mike Bickle Returning To Ministry?

“While Bickle has ‘only’ admitted to sexually inappropriate behaviors with two separate adults, two minors have alleged they were victims as well of sexual abuse…”

(Protestia) The founder and disgraced former leader of the International House of Prayer, Mike Bickle, is setting the stage to return to ministry, even after an independent investigation found that the charismatic leader sexually abused or harassed at least seventeen women during his tenure there. Continue reading

John Fetterman Makes a Damning Accusation Against His Own Party

“…Acknowledging that the world would be safer without Iran’s nuclear program would force his colleagues to admit they’ve been wrong for the past 50 days. So instead, they’d rather keep calling it illegal and dumb — and hope Iran just waits them out. That last part is what should disturb every American.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) John Fetterman just handed his own party another brutal dose of reality — and you can bet Democrats won’t be happy about it.

Fetterman was on SiriusXM’s The Michael Smerconish Program on Monday and did something almost no one in his party can do anymore: He told the truth. Continue reading

Church shepherds must be reminded they are called to promote God’s truth as opposed to the world’s normalization of sin

“We live in a time in which your generation has grown up in a totally different environment from those of us who are older, who sought to remain knowledgeable of and true to over two thousand years of biblical understanding of the need to maintain the moral purity of the church by its shepherds and leadership.”

(Helen Louise Herndon) As most know, church members are considered flocks—flocks made up of shepherds and sheep, also called lambs.  Shepherds are males who are teaching and ruling elders.  They are called elders, as historically they were older rams…. Continue reading

Wesley Hill Says Unrepentant Homosexuality Does Not Endanger One’s Soul?

“Wesley Hill… 𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬 in a most twisted manner in his 2025 article, “Excluded from God’s Kingdom? (1 Cor. 6:9-10),” 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥-𝐮𝐧𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 (or any other grievous self-affirmed sins, for that matter) 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧.”

(Protestia Wesley Hill is a celibate, self-described “gay Christian” and Episcopal priest and professor who is perhaps best known for his book Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality and for writing for such publications as Christianity Today and The Living Church.

A key figure and supporter of the controversial Revoice conference, we last wrote about him after he said he feels no need to oppose a lot of what he finds in queer theology. View article → Continue reading

A Stunning Admission From the Leader of the Phony Ukraine Trump Impeachment

“Ciaramella cited double or triple hearsay evidence and had no direct knowledge of the phone call but, like a game of telephone, was told about it afterward. Later, the Inspector General, who’s also been referred for prosecution, ignored the hearsay, took his whistleblower complaint form (there’s a suggestion that he swapped it) and never bothered to read the transcript of the actual conversation.”

(Victoria Taft – PJ Media) The Director of National Intelligence’s declassification of documents this week proved that the impeachment of President Donald Trump 45 for a phone call about Ukraine was an utterly fabricated put-up job. We all suspected it, but the released docs confirm it. And now we’re seeing stunning video of the lawyer in charge of the impeachment also confirming the gobsmacking reason behind it. Continue reading

Pope Calls Mosque a ‘Space Proper to God’ and Prays With Christ-denying Imam

“I find myself asking—quietly at first, then louder, then not quietly at all: What God? Because the answer to that question is not abstract. It is not philosophical. It is not negotiable. “No one who denies the Son has the Father. That’s not a rhetorical shibboleth. That’s a hard line in the sand.”

(The Dissenter) “Antichrists are the dissembled enemies of Christ, who every manner of way are against the doctrine of Christ, whose followers they profess themselves to be (1 John 2:18–224:32 John 7).” — Amandus Polanus

I keep coming back to that word, “dissembled.” Not open hostility. Not the snarling enemy at the gate. No, something far more unnerving. The kind that smiles. The kind that speaks the language. The kind that stands in familiar places, wears familiar garments, and says just enough of the right things to pass—until you actually listen. Continue reading

The Wounded Shepherd: The Abuse of Unrealistic Expectations

“Studies indicate that approximately 35 to 46 percent of pastors identify unrealistic expectations as one of the most challenging dynamics of ministry, with younger pastors reporting the highest levels of strain. Such pressures erode pastoral confidence and can subtly reshape ministry from faithful presence to anxious performance.”

(Mark Horne – Place for Truth) Throughout the history of the church, pastors have been burdened with expectations that exceed both biblical warrant and human capacity. While pastoral ministry has always carried weighty responsibility, the modern period, particularly in the post-industrial and post-consumerist West, has intensified these pressures…. Continue reading

Clarence Thomas Destroys ‘Progressivism’ in Ruthless Speech

“Thomas avoided naming specific politicians or referencing current events. He didn’t need to. The indictment was broad, clear, and landed with full force in a country that knows exactly who fits the description.”

If you’re here, you already love Justice Clarence Thomas for being a reliable defender of the Constitution. You’ve probably wished that we could clone him so that he could be on all nine seats of the Supreme Court. He never seems to disappoint. And during a speech on Wednesday at the University of Texas at Austin Law School, he definitely did not disappoint. Continue reading

Aragorn Is at the Black Gate, and We’re Debating Whether Merry and Pippin Are Gay

“Personally, I think the charge that “it is all about the Jews” is the most weapons-grade idiocy out there. It’s like saying J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings because it was all about protecting the Hobbits and the security of the Shire, but that “take” sells because it is attention-grabbing, conspiratorial, and it plays on hatred rather than intellect.”

(Michael Smith – The Patriot Post) People tend to reduce events to a level of simplicity they can comfortably explain to themselves, a lowest-common-denominator version of reality that fits inside their existing worldview. It is as much a coping mechanism as an intellectual shortcut…. Continue reading