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

China Holds Drills In Taiwan Strait After Biden’s Afghan Fail, Deploys Warships And Jets

(OAN)  Communist China has sent warships to the Taiwan Strait in an act of aggression against both Taiwan and the U.S. According to Tuesday reports, China has been holding assault drills involving warships and military jets near its maritime border with Taiwan.

Beijing claimed the drills came in response to unspecified “provocations” and “external interference.”…. Continue reading

Tucker Carlson Call to Action: American Citizens Must Speak Up or Become Complicit in ‘Soviet Society’ of Censors, Conformists

Salty language alert.

(Robert Kraychik)  Breitbart) Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson, author of The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalismwarned that America is becoming a “soviet society” prioritizing conformity and obedience to government over freedom of behavior and thought.

“I do think, marginally, people can be more brave and more honest just in their personal lives,” Carlson remarked on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow…. Continue reading

‘God Has a Purpose and a Plan’: Church Leader Says Afghan Christians Dealing with Crisis Through Prayer

“Definitely, they’re going to kill some of the Christians that have been known and that way they want to spread that fear that we will not tolerate anything against that.”

(Andrea Morris – Faithwire)  Widespread chaos has consumed Afghanistan now that the Taliban have gained control of the country, inciting fear among religious minorities, including Christians who are worried about an increase in persecution. Continue reading

Rick Warren’s ‘Purpose Driven’ theology is built upon a false gospel

Warren also affirms the pope. Bible-believing Christians understand without controversy that the pope of the Roman Catholic Church is a deceiver, a liar, and an enemy of God. Yet, leave it to Rick Warren to refer to him as “Holy Father.”

(Reformation Charlotte)  Making #36 on our False Teacher of the Day series, Rick Warren could be one of the most well-known pastors in America. Ranking as the second largest Southern Baptist church in the nation, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA has never failed to be at the forefront of controversy over the years. Continue reading

Will you fight for freedom?

(Cliff Kincaid – Renew America)  The difference between Afghanistan and Vietnam is that the Muslims would not fight for freedom. The Vietnamese did and were betrayed. That’s the difference. Don’t forget it. The real enemy is the Red Jihad.

Here’s the truth:

Vietnam would be free today except for a Democratic-controlled Congress that decided otherwise…. Continue reading

Are We in a Revolution and Don’t Even Know It?

“Socialism aligns foreign policy with the interests of the global oppressed rather than the citizens of a particular nation. In reductionist terms, what do lifting sanctions on Iran and appeasing its theocracy, reaching out to Hamas and snubbing Israel, and allowing the Taliban to overrun Afghanistan have in common?”

(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness) Institutions are being absorbed not just by the woke apparat, but by an array of ideologies that seeks to destroy them. Continue reading

Gaslighting, a Covid love story

“Now vaccine advocates have done a massive about-face. In the face of this horrendous data, they have simply refused to admit the vaccines are failing to work as they promised. They don’t ever even acknowledge that months ago, they said vaccines would sharply reduce coronavirus infections and transmission.”

(Alex Barenson) I’m old enough to remember when vaccines were the miracle that would put Covid behind us.

So are you. Continue reading

Dear Republican Trump haters – What did you get for your trade?

“You traded fairness for a George Orwell version of equality. Under the new administration, there are two systems of justice. Protesters on the left can set buildings ablaze, vandalize them and shoplift with impunity. Protesters on the right will be branded, surveilled and prosecuted as domestic terrorists.”   

(Jason Chaffetz – Fox News)  A little less than a year ago, a significant number of independent and Republican voters decided to trade bad tweets for bad policy. Today, your Twitter feed is void of President Trump‘s tweets. But the price was high.  Continue reading

Fmr. Google Employee Reveals Company Changed News Algorithm To Target President Trump

“He also explained how the process worked during an interview with the Epoch Times. Vorhies went on to clarify how these classifiers were trained by people with biases based on what they believed to be fake or misleading news….”

(OAN) A Big Tech whistleblower has spoken out on Google’s latest attempts to censor conservative speech. Zach Vorhies exposed Google and how it changed their news algorithms in order to target President Trump. Continue reading

‘Woke’ Gen. Mark Milley, in July: ‘Afghan Security Forces Have the Capacity to … Defend Their Country’

(Joel B. Pollack – Breitbart) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told reporters less than four weeks before the Taliban entered Kabul that the local military was fully capable of defending Afghanistan from the insurgent Islamic terrorist militia.

In a press conference on July 21, Milley said:

General Milley and his team, along with CENTCOM and many others in the joint force, have paved the path for a safe, orderly and responsible transition. Continue reading

Revoice 2021 Conference To Feature Roman Catholic Lesbian Speaker

(Protestia)  Once again, Revoice is upon us, and once again, their speaker list is suspect. Along with a plethora of gay, lesbian, and transgendered speakers, many who openly insist on using he/him, she/her/, they/them personal pronouns in their bios, we see that Revoice has brought back openly lesbian and Roman Catholic speaker Eve Tushnet to give a message.

Revoice, you’ll recall, suffered a teeth-shattering, cartilage-crushing, skull-splintering blow to the satanic scourge when the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) voted at their 2021 General Conference 1438-417 to adopt Overture 23, which states in full: Continue reading

All eyes on Biden’s response to COVID variants, Afghanistan, border crisis, inflation

(Audrey Conklin – Fox News)  All eyes are on President Biden as he responds to threats facing the U.S. and other countries, including COVID-19 variants, the Taliban’s growing stronghold over Afghanistan, the U.S.-Mexico border crisis and inflation.

The spring of 2021 presented an optimistic outlook for the new president’s administration as COVID-19 cases dwindled, millions were vaccinated, consumer spending rose and officials planned their move to pull U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 1. Continue reading

Biden and Democrats Lack Mandate for Their Destructive, Leftist Push

“If Democrats can bully Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, Republicans may have no input on so-called “soft” infrastructure favored by the socialist wing. Tax and spending bills are not subject to the Senate filibuster, therefore Democrats can pass what they want, so long as all 50 senators stay together.”

(A.J. Kaufman)  It is baffling how President Joe Biden and his party govern outside the context of political realities. Continue reading

CRN Headline News – August 9-14

Need to read articles you may have missed this week…

MONDAY 8/9

Hundreds Gather to Defy NYC Covid Mandates…’We will not comply!’

Needles, Blades, Drugs Thrown on Stage at Worship Concert in Portland While Ex-Military, Ex-Police Protect Christians

John MacArthur Takes Shot at Southern Baptist Leaders

Tens of Thousands Protest Across France Against Vaccine Passports For Fourth Week in a Row

BOMBSHELL: University of Pittsburgh likely harvesting organs from abortion survivors, with quota for racial minorities Continue reading

Netflix’s ‘Pray Away’ Takes Aim at Jesus Ability To Set People Free from LGBT Lifestyles

(Harbinger’s Daily) Netflix recently debuted a documentary titled Pray Away, aimed at discrediting reparative therapy for those who experience unwanted same-sex attraction while also undermining and impugning the testimonies of legions of men and women who have left homosexual lives behind and who continue to experience freedom in Christ.

The movie profiles several early leaders of the “ex-gay” movement — epitomized in the now defunct Exodus International organization — which began in the 1970s, and who have since disavowed their participation and returned to homosexual lives. Continue reading

Bethel ‘Pastor’ Says Michael The Archangel Dresses In ‘Wrestling Tights,’ And He’s ‘Always Grumpy’

(Protestia)  The charismatic ne’er-do-well prophet who faced public humiliation after apologizing to Joe Biden and his supporters for uttering a false prophecy about Trump’s election win, calling it a “major, major mistake” and taking “full responsibility for being wrong” has a history of saying blasphemous things bound to make charismatics cackle and cheer, this time by claiming that Michael the Archangel looks like a giant Native-American man, wears wrestling tights and is always grumpy. (Another “prophet” explains he was wearing tights because “we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, powers, and darkness.”) Continue reading

Refuting Hillsong’s recent misleading media statement

(Churchwatch Central) This article exists to refute the misleading claims in Hillsong’s recent media statement. We will mainly focus on the points that Hillsong claims are ‘fact’ in their statement. However, it’s worth quickly addressing two points in the statement that demonstrates the wickedness and self interests of Brian Houston:

Hillsong: “He has never placed blame on any victim and the actions of his father repulsed him. Continue reading

GOP Owns the Libs in Budget Reconciliation Vote-a-Rama Free-for-All

“The GOP got several Democratic senators to go on record supporting fracking, no doubt causing a lot of green heads to explode around the country.”

(Rick Moran – PJ Media)  The Democrats may get their $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill through Congress, but it’s not going through without a lot of pain being inflicted by the Republican opposition.

One of the quirks of using the reconciliation process is that it gives the opposition the ability to bring as many non-binding resolutions to the floor as possible…. Continue reading

American Armageddon

“George Orwell would say of these cultural Marxists that they grab power in the present to reinvent the past in order to control our futures.”

(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness)  Americans are growing angrier by the day in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or Tea Party furor of over a decade ago.

The rage at the current status quo this time is not just fueled by conservatives…. Continue reading

Teen Vogue Calls to ‘Mobilize Toward’ a ‘Socialist Future’

“Her short 17 years on this planet has allowed her to watch capitalism “fail time and again.” For example, she thinks she has “experienced two of the country’s worst recessions.” How adorable.” 

(Charlie Kirk)  The days of Teen Vogue giving uncomfortable sex advice so adolescents don’t have to have awkward talks with their parents is so last generation. This generation is kept abreast of the ‘woke’ movement with calls to arms and socialist mobilization. Continue reading

Major evangelical figure comes out as gay

“Followers of Jesus Christ have to completely disregard the teaching in the pages of Holy Writ to cling to their belief that God condones sex outside of marriage. Anyone who is involved in sex outside marriage is committing a sin against God. Period. This I know because the Bible tells me so.”

(Marsha West – Christian Research Network) Jonathan Merritt is “one of America’s most prolific religion writers” and a reporter for various news agencies including Religion News Service. He is also the son of former Southern Baptist Convention president James Merritt. In 2019 the pastor’s son chose to denounce evangelicalism and “seek God elsewhere.” On his 39th birthday Jonathan Merritt jumped out of the closet with both feet after years of repeated denials that he is a homosexual. Before I get to the details, you’ll need some background.

In 2012 Azariah Southworth, a “gay evangelical,” claimed he had a sexual encounter with Jonathan and chided him publicly for not admitting to being gay.  According to Azariah, Jonathan,

rides the fence because of the strong anti-gay stance his religious community continues to take. He is brave by daring to push the envelope a bit but not enough to give himself away. Exposing this truth of Jonathan’s sexual orientation is not an easy decision for me. I take no pleasure in doing this. As I type this my stomach is turning because I know of the backlash he will receive. I have thought about what all of this will mean for him and for me. I base my reasoning in the importance of living an authentic and honest life….If evidence is required to back my claim it can be provided.

The quote came from an article by Peter Lumpkins. Lumpkins reported that “Merritt routinely speaks for Baptist colleges, universities, and is a frequent speaker at Lifeway’s events. In addition, two seminary presidents–Danny Akin and Al Mohler–have in the past supported views on various social issues.” (Source) Continue reading

It’s starting: Police demand papers from restaurant goers in horrifying video

“The officers shown in the video are enforcing a new French law that went into effect on Monday requiring the country’s residents to show proof of vaccination or immunity when they enter cafés, restaurants or a number of other public venues…”

(Michael Austin – Western Journal)  Months ago, they called us “conspiracy theorists” for warning that vaccine mandates were on the way. Continue reading

There is no coherent way to combine the identities ‘gay’ and ‘Christian.’

Some advocate a practice of “spiritual friendship,” in which two homosexuals of the same sex form an enduring and comprehensive friendship: making joint decisions, living in the same house, even referring to each other as their “other half.” Apart from sex, this is almost a marriage.

(Gay and the Gay Christian by Calvin Goligher – Reformation 21) The word “gay” can refer to:

  1. A pattern of male sexual attraction for other men.
  2. An identity rooted in such a pattern of attraction.
  3. More broadly, a variety of identities and practices that depart from the norm of male-female conjugal union. In this sense, it is the opposite of “straight” and a synonym of “queer.”

This word is a euphemism that contributes to the perception that homosexual practices are relatively harmless…. Continue reading

Protests Erupt in Tennessee and Kentucky over Mask Mandates and Forced Vaccinations

Likewise in Edgewood, Kentucky, hundreds were “protesting the requirement of COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] vaccinations for employees throughout the Greater Cincinnati Health Systems.”

(Breitbart)  Protests erupted in Tennessee and Kentucky on Tuesday over school mask mandates and forced vaccinations.

“We want to have our own right and have our own decision to decide to wear a mask or not…. Continue reading