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

Irony Alert! Bethel Church Reopens HEALING SCHOOLS After Being Shut Down 2 Years

“This is a wonderful season to see break through come to the body of Christ. Join us in this school as we invite you into activation and impartation into the freedom and joy and beauty of healing. We want to help you fulfil God’s call on your life. Come join us for this amazing experience in the power of the [false] gospel.”

(Protestia) Bethel Church continues to play the hypocrite and act like everyone around them is stupid. How else can you explain the announcement that they’ve reopened their Healing School after being shut down for two years without mentioning WHY they were closed in the first place? The promo for the Healing Schools reads: Continue reading

UN & WEF Are Behind Destruction of Small Independent Farming

The agreement argued that “land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset controlled by individuals” and that private land ownership is “a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore contributing to social injustice.”

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) As we reported, the attacks on farming and ranching throughout the Western World are integral to the Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals (SDG) and the goals of UN partners, including the World Economic Forum (WEF). To do it, they must destroy small, independent farms. Continue reading

Blame Hollywood, Not Firearms Manufacturers, for Gun Violence

“I’ve often mentioned that when people are indoctrinated with moral relativism/nihilism and hence don’t believe in Truth (absolute and universal by definition), they won’t have the latter to reference when making “moral” decisions. They’ll then use the most compelling behavior guide they have left: emotion.”

(Selwyn Duke – The New American) Question: If we’re going to assign indirect blame, who is more responsible for a kid who kills somebody drag racing? The company that made the car?

Or a person who legitimized and glamorized street drag racing in the kid’s eyes? Continue reading

The danger of lying about mRNA vaccine failure

“Practically everyone knows the truth. How can I be so sure? In the most basic way. No one gets mRNA shots anymore – not for themselves, and not for their kids. More than a month after regulators broke every guideline they have to approve the shots for children under 5, more than 97 percent of kids that age remain unjabbed.”

(Alex Berenson) Joe Biden’s quick recovery from Covid will mark the end of the epidemic for all but the hardest-core hysterics.

If a 79-year-old who can barely finish a sentence can beat the ro in a few days, even Molly Jong-Fast will have a tough time staying scared…. Continue reading

Pope Francis Actively Promoting Unification of All Denominations

“It is shocking to see religious leaders succumb to such unabashed courting and more shocking that it is working. Current weak Protestants willingly overlook all the heresy their predecessors warned about for hundreds of years and meekly surrender to the authority of the Pope.”

(Don Boys) Pope Francis and many modern Catholics no longer believe the only way to Heaven is via the Roman Catholic Church. Wonder what changed. Apostasy, the act of giving up your religion and leaving religion has always been disdained, but obviously, Catholic leaders, as well as Protestants, have been flirting with apostasy for decades. Continue reading

A False Sense Of Assurance

Although hypocrites and other unregenerate men may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favor of God, and estate of salvation (which hope of theirs shall perish): yet such as truly believe in the Lord Jesus, and love him in sincerity, endeavoring to walk in all good conscience before him, may, in this life, be certainly assured that they are in the state of grace, and may rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, which hope shall never make them ashamed. (Westminster Confession of Faith 18:1)

This section teaches that unregenerate people may possess a false sense of assurance but that genuine believers may attain a true sense of assurance. Assurance must be considered for the four kinds of people in the world.

The first group of people are not saved and are aware that they are not. They are unregenerate and they know it. They have no interest in becoming Christians. Continue reading

Use-of-Force Expert: Ashli Babbitt Was ‘Murdered’ Under the Color of Authority on Jan. 6

“In order for lethal force to be authorized, the officer has to be able to articulate that he or she was in fear of losing his life, was about to be killed, or grievously injured.”

(Jack Davis – The Western Journal) The Capitol Police shooting of Ashli Babbitt, who was killed during the 2021 Capitol incursion, was unjustified, according to a use-of-force expert.

Babbitt, 35, was shot by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, who was later cleared of any wrongdoing. She was shot in the left shoulder, and died at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Continue reading

In the Depths? Help from Jonah

“In the Old Testament, the word salvation refers to both physical and spiritual deliverance. But as we read the Bible in its entirety, we soon come to see that all physical deliverance is simply an illustration of the great spiritual deliverance that God offers in his son Jesus. In the depths, as Christians, we must never forget that it is in Christ alone our hope is found—for there alone is sin dealt with.” 

(Davy Ellison – For the Church) A single image, from my first few visits to London, is impressed on my mind: the view from the top of an escalator in the larger Underground Tube stations. I remember standing looking at this enormous moving stairway, tilted at a frightening angle, inching slowly but steadily into the depths of London’s underground. Imagine gazing at hundreds of people on this downward trajectory into the belly of London. Continue reading

Chuck Grassley: ‘Highly Credible’ Whistleblowers Say FBI, DoJ Downplay Negative Hunter Biden Information

(Paul Bios – Breitbart) Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) claimed that “highly credible” whistleblowers informed him of efforts within the FBI and the Justice Department to downplay or dismiss negative information about Hunter Biden.

According to letters reviewed by CBS News, Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland alleging that sources within the FBI presented to him evidence of attempts to downplay or discredit information about Hunter Biden. Continue reading

NAR extremism: Why don’t leading apostles call it out?

(Holly Pivec) Leaders in NAR, such as the “apostles” Randy Clark and Bill Johnson, often take pains to distance their organizations from extreme teachings and practices (even though they promote extreme teachings and practices themselves). So it is noteworthy when they consort with individuals whose views are quite radical, and when they do so without expressing any concerns or misgivings. If they really do not tolerate or promote extreme teachings themselves, then how is it that an “apostle” like Ian Carroll, founder of Building Contenders, can join the Bethel Leaders Network (overseen by Bill Johnson), teach about apostles with Bethel senior leaders (such as Danny Silk and Paul Manwaring), as well as have them endorse his book (As it is in Heaven), and get invited by the influential “apostle” John Arnott to come to the stage and speak during a high-profile NAR event (Catch the Fire’s 20th Anniversary Celebration)?… Continue reading

Tucker Carlson: Biden’s COVID destroys government narrative

These findings, Carlson said, are a “profound indictment, maybe the greatest indictment in our lifetime, of our leaders…Their recklessness, their pigheadedness, their dishonesty.”

(Art Moore – WND) Is there anything to be learned from the fact that President Biden – and his top coronavirus adviser, Dr. Dr. Anthony Fauci – got COVID-19 after receiving four shots?

Is it possible that the vaccine itself makes people more susceptible to infection from the SARS-CoV-2 virus? Continue reading

China’s Buying US Farmland Near US Military Bases

“The FBI said the equipment can capture and disrupt communications, that is, by US Strategic Command, which oversees the country’s nuclear weapons.”

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) CNBC reported in 2019 that the Trump Administration added Huawei Technologies to a trade blacklist. The Trump administration warned about the danger of potential Chinese spies buying land near US army bases. Team Biden has ignored that warning, and Maoist Chinese are still buying farms. Continue reading

Documentary Reveals the Mind of a Pastor Conman

“As Minkow served his first prison sentence, televangelist Benny Hinn wrote his dishonest autobiography Good Morning, Holy Spirit containing the lie, “My father was the mayor of Jaffa during my childhood.” Jim Bakker authored the book I Was Wrong to remake himself as the repentant pastor.”

(Barry Bowen – Trinity Foundation) The three-episode Discovery+ documentary series King of the Con tells the life story Barry Minkow, an infamous conman turned pastor, who subsequently robbed a church of $3 million dollars. The Bible warns of people like Minkow, “As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.” – Proverbs 26:11 NIV Continue reading

Bethel Redding is a shark tank – woe to Bethel!

(Marsha West – Christian Research Network) There are no words to describe what the “principalities and powers” who run the cult known as Bethel Redding are conjuring up inside the walls of what they would have us believe is a Christian church. Actually, two words do spring to mind that describe Bethel Redding – shark tank.

Bethel’s Powers That Be (PTB) spend much of their time trying to figure out ways to entice naïve churchgoers into practices the Bible strongly forbids.

Bethel Church in Redding CA is run by soothsayers who think nothing of manipulating people out of their hard-earned money to grow their demonic empire–oops–church. These men and women think nothing of twisting Scripture into a theological pretzel, in fact Scripture-twisting is what they do best. Churchgoers may or may not be aware that what they’re being taught is not orthodox biblical Christianity. On the contrary. What they’re being taught is downright heresy! And they’re learning it from wolves in sheep’s clothing who describe themselves as pastors and ministry leaders. In Bethel’s shark tank the true meaning of what is contained in the scriptures is rarely, if ever, taught. Bethelites are not learning the author of the text’s intended meaning from the stage. The term for this atrocity is eisegesis. Pay close attention to CARM’s definition:

Eisegesis is when a person interprets and reads information into the text that is not there. An example would be in viewing 1 Cor. 8:5 which says, “For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,” (KJV). With this verse, Mormons, for example, bring their preconceived idea of the existence of many gods to this text and assert that it says there are many gods. But that is not what it says. It says that there are many that are called gods. Being called a god doesn’t make something an actual god. Therefore, the text does not teach what the Mormons say, and they are guilty of eisegesis, that is, reading into the text what it does not say. Compare with exegesis.

The PTB, who are heavily influenced by demonic forces, are proficient at eisegesis! They are also proficient at duplicity, deception and downright lying. Continue reading

The Left Should Be Happy with Biden

“Biden worries little that record numbers of Americans are dying from drugs that now pour across the border. Cartels became richer and more powerful than ever under his watch, while child traffickers were freed from worries.” 

(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness) The Left should be ecstatic that Joe Biden has given them everything they wanted. The Left likes inflation. It reduces the value of old money by printing lots of new money. Those richer who have it, lose the value of their money; those poorer who don’t have any money, suddenly do. Continue reading

615 Midwestern Teachers Reveal Why They’re Really Leaving the Classroom

“It’s beyond incredible that Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers and Becky Pringle of the National Education Association would cite Republicans’ and parents’ “politicization” of the classroom as the reason for the teacher shortage. It’s not even a secondary or tertiary issue—it’s forty-nine times less important to teachers than the behavioral crisis.” 

(Tony Kinnett – ChalkboardReview) Countless education advocates have spent the last few months warning of the approaching teacher shortage—myself included. Voices from the left have warned of every reason from low teacher pay to COVID-19 policy to parents at school board meetings, while closer colleagues of mine in the center and on the right have suggested a behavioral crisis. Continue reading

Unelected WEF Elites Want the Peasants Out of Their Cars

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) Winnie Yah, the Lead of Responsible Sourcing for the World Economic Forum, foresees a need for a lot more minerals if we are to get to net zero. To get this clean energy revolution off the ground, she believes the biggest bang comes with terminating or restricting the private ownership of cars.

The WEF agrees that we can recycle or mine minerals, but the route we must take to complete the circular economy is to go from owning to using. It’s not only cars. It’s basically everything. The plan is to design cars and cities around sharing in lieu of ownership. Continue reading

WHO declares monkeypox a global health emergency

“Although I am declaring a public health emergency of international concern, for the moment this is an outbreak that is concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially those with multiple sexual partners.”

(Julia Musto – Fox News) The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the international monkeypox virus outbreak now constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Continue reading

Southern Baptist Pastor Compares Abortion to Eschatology, Says Southern Baptists Must Accept Different Views

“If the child, through no fault of his own, is not conceived by consent of both parents or by incestual consent, that child has no right to protection. That child is less than human.”

(The Dissenter) Abortion is the taking of innocent unborn life. Abortion is cruel, intolerable, and for the true, born-again believer who understands the value of life given by God Himself, is a repulsive act of rebellion against our Creator. Continue reading

So What — Biden Got COVID

“The biggest lesson to draw here is that COVID is still around two and a half years after it began, though it’s largely a shadow of its original self. Lockdowns, masking, and vaccine mandates were not the way to go in March 2020, as we and too few others said at the time. Those things are definitely not the right policies now, even if some cities, schools, and other institutions bitterly cling to them.”

(Nate Jackson – The Patriot Post) It’s been another rough week for Joe Biden.

It started with getting raked over the coals by the Leftmedia for fist-bumping the Saudis. Then Democrat mayors started complaining about the influx of illegal aliens into their cities from Biden’s open border…. Continue reading

What the Far Left Really Wants

(Bill O’Reilly) One of the few positive things coming out of the incredible failure of the Biden administration is the decline of the progressive movement in America.

As is documented, Joe Biden campaigned as a moderate but immediately embraced far-left policies after his inauguration. That led to debilitating inflation, massive federal spending, worldwide embarrassment in Afghanistan, a woke culture that has damaged millions of Americans, and a stated presidential mandate to impose ” equity.” Continue reading

Hysterical Red Francis Says, ‘Repent’ ‘Mother Earth…Cries Out’

According to Francis, the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples are invaded and devastated. And it is provoking “a cry that rises up to heaven.”

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) Red Francis says we “must repent and modify our lifestyles” because we abuse Mother Earth. That was his message on Thursday.

As a Roman Catholic, I say respectfully that Red Francis should shut his mouth. He needs to talk about doctrine, not politics. Climate science is fully politicized. Continue reading

‘Wokest Place on Earth’ Disneyland Cuts Walt Disney’s Speech From Its Anniversary Celebration

“Walt Disney was a proud American and something of a conservative who would have hated what his company has become. He testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, where he warned of communists taking control of Hollywood.”

(Mitch Picasso – PJ Media) The Disneyland Resort turned 67 on Sunday and had the usual bells and whistles to usher in another year, except for one noticeable omission: the Happiest Place on Earth left out its founder’s speech for the first time.

Watch the video on the site. Continue reading

Conservatives and Same-Sex Marriage: Republicans less and less willing to stand for the traditional definition of marriage

Leftists targeted marriage because “they understand that faith and family are the foundational pillars of American Liberty, the nemesis of their statist agenda.”

(Nate Jackson – The Patriot Post) Marriage: noun, the legal union of a man and a woman. For all of human history — since God created male and female and established marriage in the Garden of Eden — this was the operating definition of marriage, even if the abuse of polygamy sometimes distorted it. Not any more. Continue reading