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

A Typical Beth Moore Study – Her Teaching Is Not Bible Teaching

Gabriel Hughes responds to an email he received defending Beth Moore. He concludes his piece by saying:

I’ve written this response to you for two reasons. Number one, that you may know that calling out false teachers is not unloving. In fact, it is one of the responsibilities of pastors out of love for Jesus and for His flock. Number two, in order to demonstrate that Beth Moore’s most basic, average teaching is not Bible teaching. It’s Beth Moore teaching. Again, I agree with you that she “is clearly doing what she thinks God wants her to do.” But what she thinks isn’t good enough. What does God say in His word, the Bible?

Here’s the email Gabe responded to: Continue reading

Rise of the Red Guards

“With little opposition, the nation’s largest state is embarking on a mass “re-education” campaign in some public schools; a curriculum that will surely lead to intense confrontation on the part of students who embrace it.”

(Bill O’Reilly) While individual Americans are trying to figure out if they are as racist as the corporate media believes, California has already reached its conclusion.  The United States and its Caucasian citizens are, indeed, purveyors of bigotry and oppression. Continue reading

In Chilling Video, Antifa Doxes, Threatens to KILL Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler

(Bryan Preston – PJ Media)  Late last week Portland, Ore., Mayor Ted Wheeler took to video to plea for the community’s help to “unmask” antifa. The violence-prone anarchist-fascist group has terrorized Portland with months of violent and destructive insurrectionist riots despite Joe Biden merely calling antifa an “idea.”

Someone purporting to represent antifa has responded to Wheeler with a new video. In this video, the masked individual pushes anti-American themes and publishes Wheeler’s home address. The individual finishes the disturbing presentation with a veiled threat to kill Mayor Wheeler. Continue reading

Critical Race Theory Is About to Face Its Day(s) in Court

“A spate of lawsuits alleges the four-decade-old academic theory encourages discrimination and other illegal policies targeting whites, males, and Christians.”

(John Murawski – American Greatness)  As recently as last summer, few people outside academia had heard of critical race theory, whose central claim is that racism, not liberty, is the founding value and guiding vision of American society. Then, President Trump issued an executive order last September banning the teaching of this “malign ideology” to federal employees and federal contractors. Continue reading

Tim Scott Responds to Joe Biden: ‘Hear Me Clearly, America Is Not a Racist Country’

(Ashley Oliver- Breitbart)  Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Wednesday delivered the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s first speech to a joint session of Congress, telling the country unequivocally that “America is not a racist country.”

Scott’s message stood starkly against that of Biden’s; the president told Congress during his own speech that “systemic racism plagues American life” in many ways and has, since becoming president, infused the concept of “racial equity” into several components of his agenda. Continue reading

LOL: Hunter Biden to Guest Teach University Class on ‘Fake News’

‘Hunter Biden Teaching a Class on Fake News Is Like Ted Bundy Teaching a Class on Dating’ – Brent Bozell

(Charlie Kirk) Despite not having a background in the news industry or media, Hunter Biden will be featured as a guest teacher at a Tulane University for a class on how the media impacts public policy, according to a report by the Daily Mail.

The course, titled, “Media Polarization and Public Policy Impacts” features several guest speakers, including Biden. Continue reading

5 Things to Know About Joe Biden’s Address to Congress

(Tyler O’Neil)  On Wednesday, President Joe Biden gave his first address to Congress. He touted his COVID-19 “relief” bill and urged Congress to pass his “infrastructure” bill, the union giveaway PRO Act, the anti-Christian Equality Act, and his new American Families Plan.

Biden framed his agenda in terms of jobs and helping the middle class, but his bills represent a far-left giveaway to Democratic constituencies and they’d cost far more than Biden plans to raise in new taxes — supposedly only for people who make $400,000 or more. Continue reading

In A World Where Everyone Is Taught To Hate Everyone

“We’ve been taught by Critical Race Theory that racism and sexism are everywhere all the time. There’s no question of, “Did racism or sexism happen?” Rather, racism and sexism are happening right now. It’s that box of pancakes. It’s that voting law that was just passed. It’s the white guy in the cubicle next to you. Just put on your mask and these Woke glasses, and you will see it all, too.”

(Gabriel Hughes) In Colossians 3:1-4, we read, “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.” Continue reading

FBI Spied on Americans without a Warrant in Search For ‘Right-Wing Domestic Extremists’ Despite Being Warned it was Unconstitutional

“The FBI was warned by a federal judge in 2018 and 2019 that searching through NSA electric communications to evade warrants was unconstitutional but they did it anyway.”

(Cristina Lalia – Gateway Pundit)  The FBI once again spied on American citizens without court-ordered FISA warrants.

The FBI went around the FISA court and looked through NSA communications in search of ‘far-right domestic extremists’ despite being warned several years earlier it was unconstitutional (Fourth Amendment violation). Continue reading

Are All Angels Safe? (Reprise)

FLASHBACK! 

This article by CRN managing editor Marsha West was first published July 13, 2012.

Contrary to popular belief, angels are neither chubby little babes with rosy cheeks nor are they exquisite young women with gossamer wings decked out in long flowing gowns. The Bible reveals very little about angels. What we do know is that God sends angels to do His bidding.

The Bible mentions two elect holy angels (the good guys) by name: Michael and Gabriel. Scripture also mentions the Angel of the Lord; Michael the archangel; the Captain of the Host of the Lord; messengers; and guardians.

Also mentioned are fallen angels (the bad guys). Lucifer, one of God’s highest angels, led a revolt against God and was banished from heaven along with his followers which is said to be a third of the angels. There are many names for Lucifer such as Satan, Devil, Prince of Darkness and Beelzebub. The other rebels became demons. In the future God will judge Satan and his demons.

Angels are spirit beings.  They are neither male nor female. In every single angel visitation recorded in Scripture, angels always appear as men, never women. Continue reading

The Feds’ Nonexistent Case Against Alleged Sicknick Assailants

There is no reason to keep these men in jail, let alone in solitary confinement, in a D.C. prison. 

(Julie Kelly – American Greatness)  The cause of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick’s untimely death on January 7 is finally settled, but the prosecution of his alleged attackers rages on.

After months of dishonest accounts about what happened to Sicknick—first that he was bludgeoned to death by “insurrectionists” with a fire extinguisher and then that he died of an allergic reaction to bear spray—the D.C. Medical Examiner’s office confirmed the 42-year-old died of a stroke; the chemical sprayed in his direction during the chaos outside the Capitol on January 6 did not contribute to his death. Continue reading

Top 10 Sickening Details About How Federal Employees Trafficked Baby Body Parts

“New emails uncovered by Judicial Watch’s FOIA request detail how FDA employees were working with buyers to get ‘fresh’ aborted baby organs for experiments.”

This article contains disturbing information about human dismemberment.

(Edie Heipel – The Federalist) In what should have been a national headline, the exposure of the U.S. government’s involvement in trafficking aborted baby bodies is now even more newsworthy following Friday’s announcement from the White House. At President Biden’s direction, the Department of Health and Human Services reversed the Trump administration’s policy protecting preborn Americans from the callous dehumanization of organ harvesting and further desecration of their bodies in research disguised as “science.” Continue reading

John Kerry Divulged HUNDREDS of Israel’s Covert Attacks to Iran, Leak Reveals

“This appears to be a betrayal of the first order, not unlike the Obama administration’s effort to save Soleimani from Israel in 2015. The Biden administration appears to be going overboard to resurrect the disastrous Iran nuclear deal.”

(Tyler O’Neil – PJ Media)  Former Secretary of State John Kerry, now President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, briefed Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on hundreds of Israel’s covert attacks on Iranian interests in Syria, according to leaked audio reported by The New York Times on Sunday…. Continue reading

‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’ Author Trashes Book with ‘Bull-Dyke’ Pastrix

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(Protestia)  Joshua Harris, author of I kissed dating Goodbye and well-known apostate recently sat down for an interview with Nadia Bolz Weber, a tattooed, self-described “Bull-Dyke” and host of The Confessional Podcast.

Nadia, the former pastrix of House for All Sinners and Saints (which the church body refers to as an acronym – HFASS – and they pronounce it “half-ass” – an ELCA congregation). She left the church a few years ago and was replaced by a gay man married to a drag queen…. Continue reading

God Detests the Worship of the Wicked

When you see people on their knees praying to Allah, on their knees praying the Hail Mary, or on their knees doing any religious ritual, your first thought shouldn’t be “man, I wish I took my religion as seriously as they do” it should be, “man, what a tragic waste of time! God despises what they are doing, I hope I can tell them about Christ”.

(Jordan Standridge – The Cripplegate)  One of the most difficult truths for people to believe is that God rejects worship.

Billions of people on earth pray, fast, beat their bodies, cry real tears and yet God rejects all of it. Continue reading

John MacArthur calls out Joel Osteen in a sermon he preached

(Protestia)  Preaching from Ephesians 1:11-14, John MacArthur of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, took a moment to call out Joel Osteen and his heretical book Your Best Life Now, taking Osteen to task for the false promise that he presents in his book. MacArthur notes that for unbelievers, this is their best life, but for Christians, this is not our best life, rather our worst life, because our best life will be in heaven.

Tim Hurd of Bible Thumping Wingnut does an excellent weekly analysis so we’re using BTW’s video where Tim explains that for the first time in a long time GCC’s camera person turns the camera on the congregants, now that California will once again allow churches to gather in sanctuaries…. Continue reading

Christian University Faculty Revolt After Board Votes to Affirm Biblical View of Sexuality

Matt Bellinger, an assistant professor of communication at the college, described the board’s decision to affirm biblical sexuality as “so out of touch with the convictions and values of the SPU community,” arguing it “calls into question the legitimacy of the board’s leadership.”

(Tré Goins-Phillips – Faithwire) The faculty members at Seattle Pacific University — a Christian college in Washington state — have cast a vote of “no confidence” in the leadership of the school’s board of trustees, which, last week, voted to affirm a biblical interpretation of sexuality. Continue reading

To Save The Republic, Destroy The Media

“If the police officer had not shot Bryant, the woman in pink would be dead. No one disputes it, they just don’t care. They need another George Floyd more than a junkie needs another fix, and if they have to manufacture it, well, dang it they were going to make one. Even in the face of irrefutable video evidence to the contrary.”

(Derek Hunter – Townhall)  To produce some viruses for study, in the hope of eradicating them, scientists use monkey kidney cells. It’s the perfect environment for them to replicate; to grow. For the virus that is progressivism, the media is the monkey kidneys, and to eliminate the threat that this left-wing sibling of communism, socialism, and fascism poses to the world, that delivery device needs to be destroyed. Continue reading

LifeSite News Launches Petition To Cancel Pope’s ‘Morally Rotten’ Conference

(Protestia)  LifeSite News has launched a petition against the Vatican for hosting a “Health” Conference on “Exploring the Mind, Body, and Soul,” explaining, “Everything about the conference is rotten — morally, scientifically, and culturally,” and amassing over 22,000 signatures calling for its cancellation.

Despite being populated by Roman Catholics and having an entire variant of their website designed as the “Catholic Edition,” that promotes and reports Catholic news, Lifesite has been notoriously critical of Pope Francis, deigning him to be dangerous and likely one Papal Bull shy of being an anti-pope. As for the problems with the conference, they explain: Continue reading

The Victim Pandemic

“It appears to me that in our society today, victimization is spreading faster than Covid.  It’s almost unbearable on many college campuses and cable TV.  Every white person is racist, every straight man a woman-hater.  No non-white male has a fair shot.” 

(Bill O’Reilly)  With the exception of Caucasian males, everybody can be a victim.  It’s easy.  Just summon up some unpleasantness in your life and assign blame.  Use the word “systemic” a lot in formulating your grievances.  Make sure you point out that you are expressing “your truth.”  And certainly mention that you are speaking “truth to power.” Continue reading

Seattle Antifa Hate Group Threatens to Burn Down Church Over Event With Charlie Kirk

“Ultimately, the church had to rescind the offer to speak.”

(Victoria Taft – PJ Media)  A Puyallup, Wash., church has canceled an event featuring conservative speaker Charlie Kirk after antifa activists threatened to burn down all of its buildings and torch the neighbors’ properties too.

Motion Church planned an event with Kirk, the head of Turning Point USA and a Christian speaker, on May 2. Continue reading

The Christian Post Doesn’t Differentiate Between Genuine Believers and Twice the Sons of Hell

Evidently, he has succumbed to the false teaching of “website orthodoxy,” a term coined by fellow contributor Seth Dunn which refers to a nefarious Bible-twister or false teacher having an orthodox statement of faith on their website, but ignoring it entirely in their body of work, sermons, books, or teachings.

(Protestia)  A reporter for the Christian Post has demonstrated a frightening lack of discernment by categorizing famed blaspheming, pro-choice, pro-LGBT pastor and Democrat senator as a Christian, and then doubling down when challenged on it. Continue reading