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

Conservative Inc Defends Caitlin Clark’s Wokeness

“In going woke, Clark sells out her conservative supporters as bad actors. Conservative media correctly noticed what Clark was doing here. Jason Whitlock said of Clark that she sold out her fans. Megyn Kelly said of Clark that she “apologized for being White.” Yet the signs of Clarks liberalism were obvious if people would have eyes to see.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) The Time Magazine feature on Caitlin Clark has many Americans coming to grips with Caitlin Clark being another woke liberal. After years of astroturfing women’s basketball, Caitlin Clark emerged as a marketable figure to boost American interest in the sport…. Continue reading

Lame duck Biden’s clemency acts free an embezzler, corrupt officials, perverts, and fraudsters

“Among the roughly 1,500 people granted clemency by the outgoing President Biden were several corrupt local officials, fraudsters, and a crooked judge. Biden also commuted the sentence of a Chinese spy convicted of possessing child pornography.”

(Steven Richards – Just the News) President Joe Biden’s pardon and commutation spree this week included granting indulgences for convicted fraudsters and corrupt public officials, a move that will likely sharpen criticism of the outgoing executive’s use of the constitutional power. Continue reading

End of the Line for Nancy Pelosi: Hip Fractures, Mortality Rates, and Father Time

“…grip-strength has been hailed as “an indispensable biomarker for older adults”: it’s not that having strong hands is the secret to a long and healthy life, but that people with strong hands are less likely to slip and fall. Plus, they’re probably stronger overall.”

(Scott Pinsker – PJ Media) The good news is, she’s a wealthy, politically-connected woman. All three matter: when you’re wealthy, you have more options; when you’re politically-connected, you don’t wait in line; and women are way better at longevity than men are. Continue reading

Do You Desire Repentance or Revenge?

(Jared Moore – Clear Truth Media) In the book of Jonah, we learn of the prophet who fled from God’s command to preach to Nineveh, Israel’s archenemy at the time. God told Jonah to preach of His coming wrath towards Nineveh. But Jonah ran away to Tashish instead. He was later swallowed by a great fish sent by God, vomited up on the shore, and then he went to Nineveh in obedience to God. There, he preached, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown” (Jonah 3:4)! Nineveh responded by repenting and calling out for God’s mercy (Jonah 3:6-10). Therefore, God showed them mercy and spared them. Continue reading

John Stossel Blows the Lid Off the Scam That Is Recycling

“So why does it continue despite experts admitting the recycling they’re demanding is doing more harm than good? It’s because the propaganda worked. People have it fixed in their minds that recycling is everything we’ve been taught, and that every time we do recycle, we’re saving the planet….” 

(Brandon Morse – Red State) John Stossel is back to ruin your preconceived notions of things with some very inconvenient truths. In this case, these truths are going to be very inconvenient to the environmentalist crowd who thinks recycling is actually benefiting us as much as they think. Continue reading

NJ Mayor: Drones Should Be Taken Down, There’s Refusal to Do So Even When They Go Out to Sea

(Breitbart – Ian Hanchett) On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Belleville, NJ Mayor Michael Melham stated that the drones around the state have to be taken down and stated that there were briefings “that we’ve had Coast Guard working with our New Jersey State Police, our helicopters have seen them. We asked, well, when they go out to sea, are we going to shoot them down?” And they were told the drones wouldn’t be taken down due to fears of what might be on them.

While discussing the briefing they had with the state, [relevant remarks begin around 37:25] Melham stated, “These drones have to come out of the air…. Continue reading

How ‘Side B’ Ministries Hi-Jack the Great Commission

(Mike Solecki – TruthScript) If you’re not familiar with Side “B” ministries let me sum them up in a nutshell. Side “B” ministries are deceptive parachurch organizations that purport to help the church minister more effectively to those who identify as LBGTQ+ and provide guidance for Christian families who have kids identifying as such. They claim to do this without ever compromising Christian orthodoxy, but this notion is untenable because these ministries promote the idea that same-sex attraction is not a morally culpable sin. Therefore it is perfectly acceptable to be a Gay-Christian as long as you stay celibate, ostensibly…. Continue reading

President-Elect: Trump Dynasty a Possibility

(Charlie McCarthy – Newsmax) President-elect Donald Trump prefers not to call his election victory “a comeback,” and said his second White House term could lead to a “Trump dynasty.”

Trump, named Time’s 2024 Person of the Year on Thursday, recently met with magazine staff members for an exclusive wide-ranging interview, which included questions about his winning campaign.

“I don’t view it as a comeback,” Trump said. “I know it’s considered that. I should allow it to be that, and I will allow it to be that…. Continue reading

CNN: Daniel Penny Is the Same as the Cold-Blooded CEO Killer

Watch the videos: CNN host wrongly compares Daniel Penny to Luigi Mangione and asks, “Which vigilante action is okay?”

(Mary Dowling) CNN’s panel compared Daniel Penny and Luigi Mangione, drawing an equivalence between them. To the random talking heads CNN digs up, Penny and Mangione are the same.

Without mentioning his name, the woman hosting the panel said Penny decided Neely didn’t deserve to live.

In actuality, Daniel Penny was trying to save people on a train from the dangerous, violent Jordan Neely…. Continue reading

Sen. Kennedy Humiliates General Who Called Trump Supporters ‘Fascists’

Watch the 2nd video where Sen. Kennedy takes down General Manner.

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Sen. John Kennedy’s exchange with Retired Army Maj. Gen. Randy Manner during a recent Senate hearing was nothing short of epic. Kennedy, a master of political discourse, delivered a blistering takedown of Manner’s past comments on President Trump and his supporters during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Manner was testifying about the incoming administration’s plans for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens. Continue reading

The Bonhoeffer Movie Was A Flop

“It is a welcomed surprise that a movie lionizing a heretic would flop so hard. It was an unexpected win against the Post-War Consensus and its grip on the church. It may also show that our culture is fatigued by WWII movies, or that people are learning the truth of Bonhoeffer and are exercising discernment.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the martyr of the Post-War Consensus and 20th-century liberalism’s syncretism with the church. Despite being a theological liberal who denied the Apostle’s Creed, Bonhoeffer has become more myth than man. Indeed he was not a liberal pastor on the outskirts of a liberal German denomination…. Continue reading

Unbiblical Ideas About Angels

FLASHBACK

By Marsha West 

Christian Research Network – first published in 2007. 

“For centuries, angels were seen as messengers for a holy God. Today, they seem to be all-forgiving therapists.” –Terry Maddingly

‘Tis the season of angels! At Christmastime angels are brought to our attention more than any other time of the year. Angel objects are everywhere you look, and they come in just about every shape and size imaginable. Manufacturers offer angel ornaments, cards, fine art, books, jewelry, figurines, cologne, undergarments, sleepwear, body wash and makeup. On one website I found a whole host of angel pins that includes a military and patriotic angel that proudly waves the American flag. Continue reading

Free at Last: Justice Done in Penny Acquittal

(Timon Cline – TruthScript) To paraphrase Thomas Carlyle, heroes provide patterns, dispositions, and actions to emulate. They are “creators” of aspiration, of “whatsoever the general mass of men” aim to “do or attain.” In this sense, heroes are the standard of manhood and nobleness.

Just last week, Psychology Today lamented that men lack role models. Of course, their proposed solution of “rewriting narratives of masculinity” to correct “harmful gender stereotypes” is exactly the kind of psychosis that has feminized men and suppressed any masculine aspiration in them. In other words, the cure for aimless men is to destroy men altogether. Continue reading

Trump: ‘Open to Anything’ on RFK Investigating Autism, Vaccines

When asked if whether he “wanted to see childhood vaccines eliminated,” Trump responded: “If they’re dangerous for the children.”

(Solange Reyner – Newsmax) President-elect Donald Trump says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will investigate the supposed link between autism and childhood vaccines.

“When you look at some of the problems, when you look at what’s going on with disease and sickness in our country, something’s wrong,” Trump said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. Continue reading

Women Shouldn’t Be in Combat Roles

“If sex-neutral standards produce few qualified women, leftists will push to lower those standards. It already happened in the Army’s Ranger training.”

(Victor Joecks – Hot Air) It’s amazing how controversial common sense is these days. Look at the reaction to Pete Hegseth’s comments about women in combat roles.

President-elect Donald Trump wants Hegseth to be his secretary of defense. He served in the Army National Guard, deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s talked repeatedly about the problems he sees in today’s woke military. Continue reading

Punching Back at Temptation

(Chris Queen – PJ Media) One of the things that people often misunderstand about the Christian faith is that Christians still deal with temptations on a regular basis. We’re forgiven of our sins, but we still face the choice to sin or not to sin every single day.

“In the last analysis it is not the temptations that meet us on the streets that determine our conduct; it is the heart of the man who faces them,” wrote the great Welsh preacher and theologian Martyn Lloyd-Jones. “Two men may face the same conditions; one falls, the other stands. The difference is not in the temptation but in the heart of the man.” Continue reading

Anti-Christian Hate Coming for Hegseth From Politico

The author is very anti-Christian, doesn’t understand Christianity, and has an overriding motive to demonize Christians, even if he has to invent problems as if he were a quack fortune teller.”

(Mary Dowling) A Politico article about Pete Hegseth sees him as too “aggressively Christian.” Author Jasper Craven called him “Joe Rogan of conservative military media.” The entire article reeks of anti-Christian bigotry, and this author is doing it openly. He’ll likely get rewarded for it. Continue reading

Obama Just Accused Republicans of What Democrats Are Doing, and It’s Nothing Less Than Ominous

“So when it came time to deliver his whopping lie at his “Democracy Forum,” did Mr. Smooth suddenly glitch himself? Does the man still have a conscience somewhere in there, a warning voice that told him that smearing his opponents with charges of which his friends and allies are guilty was immoral? Probably not, as Obama went on to make a statement that was frankly ominous.”

(Robert Spencer – PJ Media) No one seems sure who first said it, maybe Joseph Goebbels, but in any case, it’s a tried-and-tested Alinskyite tactic: accuse your enemy of what you’re doing. Barack Obama is a practiced expert at this, and he gave a master class in it on Thursday at his Obama Foundation’s Orwellian-named Democracy Forum. Continue reading

Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations, Michael Brown to Take Time Off From Public Ministry

(Rebecca Hopkins – The Roys Report, a site CRN does not recommend) Following allegations of sexual misconduct, Messianic Jewish scholar Michael Brown is taking time off from his public ministry, according to Brown’s ministry, The Line of Fire.

“We have strongly encouraged Mike that he does no public ministry,” said Scott Volk, board member for The Line of Fire in a statement to The Roys Report (TRR). “He’s cancelled speaking engagements for the months of November and December. And from my understanding, he normally writes numerous articles a week. He’s not doing that.” Continue reading

What the Trump nominees Have Not Done—And Will Not Do

“We are going to hear some outrageous things in the upcoming congressional confirmation hearings. But one thing we will not hear about are the crimes, deceptions, and utter incompetence of prior and current government grandees.”

(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness) Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees.

Many of Trump’s picks are well outside the usual Washington, DC/New York political, media, and corporate nexus.

But that is precisely the point—to insert reformers into a bloated, incompetent, and weaponized government who are not part of it. Continue reading

American Medical Institutions Get Woke Infection

“When doctors choose a political agenda over protecting children, it’s time for someone to step up and defend our most vulnerable citizens. That’s exactly what Tennessee and other states have done.”

(Brian Mark Weber – The Patriot Post) When it comes to debating climate change, pandemics, and transgender youth, those who live in the world of common sense are often told to “trust the science.” But it’s hard to trust the science these days when it’s so often tainted by ideology rather than objective, dispassionate analysis and the scientific method itself. Continue reading

Hal Lindsey’s Secret Legacy: Obtaining Extravagant Wealth from Non-Profit Organization

“In 2014, the Lindsey family purchased a 6,000+ square foot home in the Texas hill country next to a 1,300-acre golf course. The Redfin real estate website estimates the home is worth almost $2.9 million.”

(Barry Bowen – Trinity Foundation) Hal Lindsey, one of the wealthiest non-profit ministry executives in America, has died at 95 years of age.

Lindsey co-authored the bestselling end-times Bible prophecy book The Late Great Planet Earth with Carole C. Carlson and hosted a TV program airing on Daystar Television Network, costing $381,000 in 2023, and other networks over the years. Continue reading

How Trump’s Victory Affects The Civil War In Evangelicalism

(Jon Harris – The Federalist) Over the past decade, a clear political divide has emerged within American evangelical Christianity. Institutional leaders have increasingly aligned their organizations with the leftist ruling class, while many in the pews maintain more conservative views and resist these shifts. Trump’s recent victory has intensified this balancing act for leaders and further deepened the divide within the movement.

Signaling approval for the left’s cultural dominance while maintaining Religious Right credentials has never been easy. In the 2010s, the strategy was to expand the definition of pro-life to include issues such as racial justice and left-leaning immigration policies…. Continue reading

Presidential Pardons for Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, and Adam Schiff?

Curses and drat! That blasted Trump forced President Biden into pardoning Hunter, and now he’s gonna make him pardon everyone else! That Donald Trump is a real troublemaker.

(Scott Pinsker – P Media) “I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision,” President Biden wrote in the last line of his statement explaining his unconditional pardon of his son, Hunter Biden. In doing so, he actually went full circle: The very first line of his statement emphasized their father-son relationship as well: “Today I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.”

So it was Biden’s open and close. Continue reading