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

Pope Appoints Powerful Pro-LGBT Cardinals to Seat of Power

“Gregory personally invited pro-gay Vatican adviser Fr. James Martin to give a speech titled “Showing Welcome and Respect in Our Parishes to LGBT Catholics” at both St. Thomas More Parish and at Atlanta’s Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.  Martin described Gregory as “thoughtful, progressive and open-minded,” and noted his LGBT outreach.”

(Protestia)  Pope Francis appointed 13 clergymen to the College of Cardinals, many of who will be able to vote in the upcoming Pala conclave, and at least two who hold pro-LGBT views…. Continue reading

Al Mohler, Asleep at the Wheel, Finally Explains Why Christians Must Support Trump

“Citing Donald Trump’s commitment to and record of actually carrying out the pro-life policies he promised in his 2016 campaign, Mohler admits that Trump has made a believer out of him and now vows to vote for him in 2020, despite having voted against him in 2016.”  

Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and arguably the most influential leader in the entire Southern Baptist Convention, is well-known for leading from behind and speaking out after…it’s too late to make a difference…. Continue reading

Should Christians Vote for the Vain and Boastful?

“It is not simply that Christians are allowed to vote for the kind of boastful candidates Piper finds incomprehensible as a choice. God deliberately confounds our moral calculus — especially those calculations designed to make us look more righteous than others.”

(Ben Voth – American Thinker) Evangelical thinker, author, and Christian pastor John Piper stirred the Christian community and a larger public intrigued with how Christians may vote in the this election with his recent essay, “Policies, Persons, and Paths to Ruin: Pondering the Implications of the 2020 Election.” Continue reading

Trump vs. Biden: A Rundown

“Would Biden reopen America’s southern border and allow foreign nationals their old accustomed free access to enter the U.S. illegally? Would he perhaps stop the wall’s construction or even dynamite its soon to be completed 400 miles? Would he ask the Mexican president to withdraw the Mexican border troops that have radically curtailed illegal crossings? How many illegal aliens would be given blanket amnesty? Would he reinstate NAFTA and rid himself of the Trump substitute?”

(Victor Davis Hanson – National Review) One week out, the contrasts are worth assessing. Biden so far has issued no substantive critique of Trump’s foreign policy other than banalities that Trump’s comportment and unpredictability have offended allies and tarnished America’s reputation. Continue reading

Instead of Preaching Christ, Steven Furtick Holds ‘Walk on Water in Style’ Contest

“It goes without saying — at least to anyone who understands and believes the Scriptures — that “walking on water” is not a practice of the Church and pretending to do so is nothing more than a mockery of God.”

(Jeff Maples – Reformation Charlotte)  Heretic and false teacher, Steven Furtick of Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC is no stranger to clownish gimmicks that mock Christ and reflect a spirit of sedition against the commandments of God. Continue reading

Fallen Pastor Art Azurdia is Restored and Back on the Preaching Circuit

“Because of my sin I have disqualified myself from the office of elder. Furthermore, I have no desire to pursue ministry of any kind. My focus is entirely directed at making right the very thing I have ignored for too long: the well-being of our marriage.”

(Protestia)  Disgraced pastor and teacher Dr. Arturo G. Azurdia III (Art Azurdia) is back on the preaching circuit and making the conference rounds 20 months after his fall from grace…. Continue reading

Hunter Biden’s Flipped Business Partner Provided 26,000 Emails

(Matthew Boyle – Breitbart) The business partner of Hunter Biden who flipped on the Biden family from prison provided access to 26,000 emails, Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer said in a Saturday morning radio appearance.

Schweizer, appearing on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel, said that former Hunter Biden business partner Bevan Cooney provided 26,000 emails to him—the first of which were published late last week in a Breitbart News exclusive investigation by Schweizer and author Seamus Bruner…. Continue reading

Is ‘Journalism’ Bottoming Out?

“My own headline, up above, wouldn’t pass muster with the Sacramento Bee. It should’ve been something like “Nude Journalists Caught Performing Human Sacrifice.” And watch the clicks come rolling in.”

(Lee Duigon – News With Views)  When I was a teenager, we used to get a lot of good belly-laughs out of crazy tabloid headlines. “Bigfoot Kept Lumberjack as Love Slave!” “Mad Dentist Rips Out Patient’s Tongue.” And “Girl Too Ugly to Go to School,” complete with clumsy composite photo that wouldn’t fool a five-year-old. These guys were writing click bait before clicks were invented. Continue reading

Dr. Fauci Suggests a Federal Mask Mandate May Be Necessary

“The obvious difficulty in issuing a federal mask mandate is how to make it enforceable.  Maybe we could take a page from the Chinese secret police playbook. It worked for them.”

(Rick Moran – PJ Media)  Dr. Anthony Fauci says it might be necessary for Washington to impose a mask mandate on all 50 states, given the worrisome rise in coronavirus cases across the U.S. Fauci made the remarks during an interview on CNN. Continue reading

A plea to my evangelical friends for Biden…who support his progressive socialist policies

“In thinking of the future of our children and grandchildren, we must ask if a political movement that integrates into its system without difficulty the wholesale slaughter of babies can be represented as a “biblically-shaped ethic.” Abortion is not an efficient solution to unwanted pregnancy. This ethic is shaped by the rejection of God the Creator.”

(Peter Jones – truthxchange)  How should genuine Christians vote in the up-coming presidential election? Recently a group called “pro-life evangelicals for Biden” sought to answer that question…. Continue reading

Card. Burke: No Catholic is Bound by Pope Francis’ Call for Gay Civil Unions or Gay Families

“First of all, the context and the occasion of such declarations make them devoid of any magisterial weight. They are rightly interpreted as simple private opinions of the person who made them.”

(Michael W. Chapman – CNS News)  Citing Holy Scripture and the centuries-old teaching of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American, said no Catholic is bound to support the recent statements by Pope Francis in support of gay civil unions and gay families. Continue reading

Reformed Theological Seminary partners with convicted Clinton donor to launch Center for Reformed Theology

RTS president Ligon Duncan wrote the forward to Eric Mason’s infamous book Woke Church.

“Tong’s influence and prominence among some Reformed Americans is growing. In fact, D.A Carson, John Piper (a now avowed anti-Trump Christian), Sinclair Ferguson, Steven Lawson, and Timothy Keller were speakers at Tong’s Jakarta Conference during October 2020.” 

(Capstone Report)  Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS) partnered with convicted Clinton donor James Riady to launch the Center for Reformed Theology in Indonesia. Riady violated campaign finance laws that resulted in the largest fine for campaign finance violations in US history. But that has not stopped Riady’s involvement with and donations to evangelical institutions like BIOLA, RTS and Arkansas Baptist Convention affiliated Ouachita Baptist University. Continue reading

Justin Peters Ministries Asks Whether or Not Beth Moore is Demon-Possessed

“Unbeknownst to me, He’s been writing each chapter on my heart for several years. When the message for this book was complete (in His estimation — not mine!), God compelled me to ink it on paper with a force of the Holy Spirit unparalleled in my experience. He whisked me to the mountains of Wyoming where I entered solitary confinement with Him, and in only a few short weeks, I wrote the last line.”

(Protestia) Justin Peters Ministries, which has been critical of Beth Moore in the past, took an even firmer stance against the Belle of the Southern Baptist Ball by posting an article on their Facebook page and asking the question whether or not Moore is demonically possessed. Continue reading

Debate Recap: Trump Was in Command While Biden Told a Bunch of Whoppers

“Biden’s claim that his son has not made money in China is utterly, disgustingly false. In fact, there’s an entire movie about it!”

(Tyler O’Neil – PJ Media) Democratic nominee Joe Biden lied his way through the final presidential debate with President Donald Trump. NBC News correspondent Kristen Welker interrupted Trump more than she interrupted Biden, and Biden was the first person to interrupt a fellow candidate on the stage. Nevertheless, this debate proved far more civil than the first debate. Continue reading

‘Here are the Facts’: Bobulinski Brings Trove of Receipts on Biden Family Foreign Deals

“I brought, I guess, for the record three phones that spanned the years 2015 to 2018 these phones have never been held by anybody else besides myself. I was told this past Sunday by somebody who was also involved in this matter that if I went public this information would be it would bury all of us, man.”

(Katie Pavlich – Townhall)  Just over an hour before the final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden in Nashville Thursday night, former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski held a press conference….

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BREAKING: Hunter Biden business associate’s text messages indicate meeting with Joe Biden

I’ve seen Vice President Biden saying he never talked to Hunter about his business,” Bobulinski said. “I’ve seen firsthand that that’s not true, because it wasn’t just Hunter’s business, they said they were putting the Biden family name and its legacy on the line.”

(Brook Singman – Fox News) EXCLUSIVE: Text messages obtained by Fox News show the CEO of a Jim and Hunter Biden joint venture with a Chinese  energy firm discussing a meeting with Joe Biden in May 2017, despite past claims from the former vice president that he did not talk about his son’s business dealings. Continue reading

Russell Moore: This is not most important election of our lives?

“No amount of Neville Chamberlain like ERLC appeasement or David French style of existing as a cheese eating surrender monkey will satisfy the looming Big Tech-Big Business-Democrat-Technocratic-Totalitarianism.”

In a video published by The Gospel Coalition Russell Moore said the 2020 Presidential Election should not be viewed in apocalyptic terms for Christian voters. In other words, Dr. Moore deprecates the belief that 2020 represents the most important election in our lifetime…. Continue reading

Terrifying: Russia and Iran Accessed U.S. Voter Rolls. Here’s What They’re Doing With Them

“It is truly terrifying that Iran and Russia have accessed America’s voter registration records, but this does not necessarily give Americans reasons to fear that Iran or Russia will be able to tamper with the election results.”

(Tyler O’Neil – PJ Media)  On Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe said both Russia and Iran have obtained U.S. voter registration information in an effort to interfere in the 2020 election. Continue reading

Bombshell Statement: Biden Insider Claims He Was ‘Recipient of the Email’, Says He Witnessed Joe, Hunter Discussing Deals

(Matthew Boyle – Breitbart)  A whistleblower CEO and Biden insider, Tony Bobulinski, released a public statement on Wednesday evening backing up the reporting of the New York Post from last week and claiming that he personally witnessed Democrat presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Bidreitarten discussing business deals with his son, Hunter Biden.

Sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News that Bobulinski is the person whose allegations and inside information are the centerpiece of a forthcoming investigation by the Wall Street Journal…. Continue reading

Will the Media Defeat Donald Trump?

“The question is, how did the national press become a political entity?  Why have standards of journalism collapsed?”

(Bill O’Reilly)  President Trump and everyone else knew that the NBC Townhall exposition would be contentious and that the ABC Townhall with Joe Biden, broadcast at the same time, would be gentle.

And that’s exactly what happened.

The NBC moderator, Savannah Guthrie, was under heavy pressure to make Donald Trump squirm…. Continue reading

Conservatives & Pro-Lifers Censored Over & Over by Big Tech: ‘The Single Greatest Threat to Democracy’

“We’ve analyzed and we’ve documented how 260 different users on Facebook and Twitter have had their posts about Biden scrubbed from social media.”

(Faithwire)  So many conservative sources on social media are getting censored so much right now, it’s making their allies in the US Senate wonder if there’s something that can be done to stop the censoring.

Facebook recently censored an online advertisement put out by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, although each fact in it can be proven. Continue reading

Pope Endorses Same-Sex Civil Unions in New Documentary

(NewsMax) Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary “Francesco,” which had its premiere at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday.

The papal thumbs up came midway through the film that delves into issues he cares about most, including the environment, poverty, migration, racial and income inequality, and the people most affected by discrimination. Continue reading

America’s most powerful people want you to shut up about Hunter Biden

“Our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case,” the letter reads. Now, these are so-called “intelligence operatives.” But they offered no evidence to support that reckless, very serious claim. Why didn’t they offer any evidence? Because there is no evidence.

(Tucker Carlson – Fox News)  What happened to Joe Biden? Remember him? Longtime senator, Obama’s VP, now running for president and on the ballot in two weeks? He was last seen a couple of days ago buying milkshakes in North Carolina. Given Biden’s present condition, that is worrisome. If you see him wandering in a park or lost in the crafts aisle at Wal-Mart, be sure to alert authorities. Continue reading

Election 2020 exposes antichrists among Evangelicals

“Murder pleases the Devil. It is his raison d’être. He wants to destroy and murder. Anyone trying to help pro-abortion candidates is an antichrist, a false teacher, and is doing the work of the Devil.”

(Capstone Report)  “Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.” I John 2:18

A new trend in Christian circles is to claim that voting for Democrats is acceptable for Christians. In fact, last night on Twitter, I was rebuked for making the case that Christians who support and vote Democrat deserve excommunication. Continue reading