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

We Need to Abandon Celebrity Christianity

(Wes Martin – Clear Truth Media) I cringe and my heart aches as I think about the title of this article. My honest opinion is that we, the church, are totally complicit with “Celebrity Christianity”. We’ve built it, and unfortunately we continue to prop it up. Our very nature as sinners seems to be committed to exalting a man or woman of God to an unhealthy level, making the whole thing reek of self-aggrandizement. We love to belong to something big and exciting, and to have impact. All the better if we can be personally connected to them. With pride we might say, “that’s my pastor, that’s my church, or I’m a part of this ministry”…. Continue reading

FDA OK’d a Bird Flu Vaccine for Emergency Use in Humans

(Mary Dowling) The FDA approved a bird flu vaccine for emergency use in people. Nobody is sick or dying from bird flu, but they approved it anyway. Bird flu has been around for a long time, but the difference now is that scientists are increasing its lethality in labs using the gain of function.

HHS Secretary Becerra pushed out the Prep Act, which allows this emergency use of the vaccine.

Attorney Tom Renz is worried that bird flu will suddenly spread to humans from a lab leak…. Continue reading

LIGHTS OUT: Terrorists Getting EMP Weapons

(Stephen Green – PJ Media) It isn’t just “lights out” when a powerful electromagnetic pulse is set off, typically by the explosion of a nuclear warhead. An EMP doesn’t just disrupt electrical signals — it essentially hijacks them and can permanently fry any unshielded electronic device. Forget turning anything back on, whether it’s your computer, your furnace, or even your car. They’re all going to need to be repaired or replaced.

But a nuclear warhead isn’t the only way to create a smaller EMP effect, and terrorists are getting the tools to make them happen. Continue reading

Man Who Pummeled Woman in Olympic Boxing Match Demonstrates Why We Must Continue This Cultural Fight

“Obviously, allowing a biological male to beat a female in the ring is not only dangerous but also a direct attack on the truth and the created order. As Christians, we must see this for what it is—an assault on God’s design and a normalization of lies that endangers women and society as a whole.”

[The Dissenter] The Olympic boxing match between Angela Carini and Imane Khelif is a dramatic, yet realistic illustration of celebrated violence against women, all in the name of “progress.” Continue reading

David Jeremiah Announces That Unknown Virus Attacked His Vocal Cords

Before we get to Ray Fava’s report, our readers need to know that Pastor David Jeremiah, who is supposedly a conservative evangelical and solid Bible teacher, endorsed Jesus Calling, Sarah Young’s demon channeled devotional, and has on many occasions rubbed shoulders with Word of Faith prosperity preachers. Back in 2012 Ken Silva reported that Dr. Jeremiah lavished praise upon the late Paul Crouch who was the president of TBN and a word-faith heretic. While putting his arm around Crouch, Dr. Jeremiah introduced him as “one of my dearest brothers in the whole world.” Because of his questionable associations over the years, we agree with Ken Silva that “his discernment certainly leaves much to be desired.”

Now to Ray Fava’s report: Continue reading

Shepherds for Sale: The Definitive Review

(David Morrill) The online pushback and downright vitriol directed towards Daily Wire writer and reporter Megan Basham in advance of her book Shepherds for Sale demonstrate one very important reality: There is an entire industry (dare we say “mindustry?”) invested in suppressing the information in her book. It is one thing for the mainstream of Christian culture to dismiss discernment/polemics websites as fringe for cataloging the awfulness of the Evangelical Industrial Complex (also known as “Big Eva,” “Evangelicalism Inc.” or my favorite “Evangelical Intelligentsia”), it is another altogether to read a comprehensive treatment of these characters engaging in the kind of rank hypocrisy and compromise that makes it obvious to the saved and the lost alike how truly awful the industry of Christianity has become. Continue reading

Why Are the Feds Hiding the Would-Be Trump Assassin’s Left-Wing Radicalism?

“The FBI is now claiming that the Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks had an unspecified “social media account” in 2019/2020 (when he was 14/15 years old) that posted “anti-immigrant and anti-semitic” content.”

(Victoria Taft – PJ Media) Well, well, well, stories about Donald Trump’s near-assassin’s motives just did a 180º turn. A joint hearing between the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Judiciary Committees on Tuesday wittingly or unwittingly uncovered that the feds have been hiding the murderer’s radical, pro-Democrat connections. The question that wasn’t asked during the joint committee hearing was, “Why have you been hiding this?” Continue reading

Celebs Spread Deceptively Edited Video, Falsely Claim Trump Will Outlaw Elections

“Since Friday’s speech, pro-Kamala stars including [has been entertainers] Rob Reiner, Mia Farrow, and Barbra Streisand have spread the Trump hoax lie to their millions of [low information] social media followers. Disney’s Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson also spread the lie.”

(David Ng – Breitbart) Hollywood celebrities are spreading a hoax claiming that former President Donald Trump will outlaw elections if he returns to the White House.

Their specious claim comes from a recent speech during which the GOP presidential nominee encouraged Christians to turn out en masse this November — with important context cut from a 27-second video clip. [Of course.] Continue reading

Pelosi’s top security aides got warning about Capitol breach night before Jan. 6 riot

“We have responsibility, Terri,” Pelosi is heard saying on the videotape to McCullough. “We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. .. I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more.”

(John Solomon – Just the News) Two top House security aides under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi got stark warnings from police the night before the Jan. 6 riots that protesters might try to breach the U.S. Capitol through its tunnel systems and block lawmakers from voting to certify Joe Biden’s presidential election win, according to newly obtained memos and text messages. Continue reading

Escalating Wars Threaten As US Hobbled Without a President

(Mary Dowling) While the US doesn’t have a president and an elderly man with no memory occupies the Oval Office, no one is running the country. This is how failed nations act.

The US is planning to put long-range missiles, Tomahawks, and hypersonic missiles in Germany. Russia threatens to escalate in kind if it happens.

Fears grow of a wider war between Israel and Hezbollah after alleged Hezbollah terrorists, backed by Iran, killed 12 children on a soccer field. Continue reading

Suzanne Hinn Files for Divorce Again from Televangelist Benny Hinn

(Barry Bowen – The Trinity Foundation) Last week Suzanne Hinn filed for divorce for the second time from televangelist husband Benny Hinn.

Suzanne and Benny first married on August 4, 1979. Thirty years later Suzanne filed for divorce in February 2010.

Three years later the couple remarried before a large audience at the Holy Land Experience in Orlando with the late pastor Jack Hayford officiating. Continue reading

The entire point of the transgender ‘Last Supper’ scene in Paris was to mock Christianity and offend Christians.

“Christians of an earlier era knew how to deal with pagans who hated Jesus Christ. First, they bore witness to Christ’s conquest over death by becoming willing martyrs for the faith. Later, they defended the faith against Islam and pagan armies alike. They were willing to stand firm for Christ, whether it meant dying as a martyr or as a soldier on the battlefield.”

(John Daniel Davidson – The Federalist) As nearly everyone has seen by now, the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics featured an obscene tableau mocking Christianity with a paganized rendering of Leonardo DaVinci’s “The Last Supper” featuring hyper-sexualized transgender performers imitating Jesus and the apostles. As if to leave no doubt about their perversity, the scene even included a child. Continue reading

New Text Messages Reveal Another Troubling Update on Trump Assassination Attempt

“Local SWAT teams told ABC News they had photos and details about Crooks, relaying the information that apparently never got the attention required, a damning indictment of the seemingly ramshackle communications system deployed that day.”

(Matt Vespa – Townhall) Two words describe the security situation at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13: hot mess. There are so many glaring flaws, and the ground is so inexcusable that it is fertile for conspiracy theorists. Can you blame them? The Secret Service is stonewalling and stacking sandbags amid intense scrutiny from lawmakers from both parties. Continue reading

Democrat Civil War Watch: Endorsing Kamala Was Joe Biden’s Revenge on the Democrats

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Joe Biden’s prompt endorsement of Kamala Harris as the next Democratic presidential nominee left many scratching their heads. However, sources tell the New York Post that Biden had a specific reason for doing so: revenge.

It was obvious to everyone that Joe Biden did not want to drop out of the race, but prominent party leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, as well as the megadonor class, forced his hand. As we previously reported, Biden was essentially blackmailed to do as they wanted: drop out or the 25th Amendment would be invoked. Continue reading

‘All-out War’ Looms as Hezbollah Rocket Kills 9 Israeli Druze Arabs, Including Kids

(Joel B. Pollak – Breitbart) Israel’s foreign minister, Israel Katz, said Saturday that Israel faces “all-out war” after a rocket fired by Hezbollah at the Israeli Druze Arab village of Majdal Shams killed at least nine people, including children, on Saturday evening.

Children from ages ten to twelve were playing a soccer game when the rocket hit the field. According to an eyewitness interviewed by Israel’s Channel 13, a warning siren only sounded as the impact happened. Continue reading

The Media Won’t Tell You Political Corruption Defined Kamala Harris’ Affair With Willie Brown

“…when The New York Times takes Kamala Harris at her word that her relationship with Willie Brown was not “improper,” they’re erasing the functional difference between lying and profound ignorance. And when she’s credulously quoted saying, “I do not owe him a thing,” it’s journalistic malpractice to believe her.”

(Mark Hemingway – The Federalist) Kamala Harris hasn’t been the presumptive Democrat nominee for even a week, and already the press is desperately trying to insist perfectly valid criticisms of her are illegitimate. If you think the media were complicit in attempting and failing to hide Joe Biden’s senility, the attempt to retcon her political career into something that resembles respectable and competent is even more brazen. Continue reading

Isn’t the Biblical Account ‘Good’ Enough?

“This wholly unbiblical idea is making the rounds on YouTube by pastors and others who are incorporating it into their sermons and passing the embellished story on to their churches. How long might it be until tiny swatches of allegedly “holy swaddling” will show up as talismans in “Christian Bookstores?” And where did this idea that has been dormant for nearly one hundred and fifty years recently reemerge from?”

(Don & Joy Veinot – Midwest Christian Outreach) A favorite pastime for some popular teachers today is to find new and exciting biblical “insights” to share with others. These “new discoveries” can quickly take on a life of their own and grow unchecked and unchallenged. We think if something has been unknown or especially “secret” down through the ages, that would be a very good reason to be skeptical about it, but instead, it appears to draw people in…. Continue reading

FBI does about-face, concedes Trump wounded by bullet during assassination attempt

(Misty Severt – Just the News) The FBI officially admitted on Friday night that former President Donald Trump was hit by a bullet during an assassination attempt on his life earlier this month.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday that he was not sure what hit Trump during the July 13 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania. He claimed it could have been a bullet, glass, or shrapnel, which spurred backlash from conservative lawmakers. Continue reading

As Islamic Groups Vow Massacres, Paris Olympics Target Christianity

“Olympics openly mocks Jesus’ Last Supper as drag queens dressed as women play the role of disciples while a plus size woman appears in the middle symbolising Jesus wearing a giant crown.”

(Robert Spencer – PJ Media) Every Western leftist’s favorite jihad group, Hamas, released a video a few days before the Olympics opened, vowing that there would soon be “rivers of blood flowing through the streets of Paris.”  French police recently arrested two would-be Islamic State (ISIS) jihad suicide bombers who were planning to target the Olympics. The Islamic State also called upon Muslims to carry out drone strikes on the Eiffel Tower during the Olympics. After all that, the Olympics Opening Ceremony featured full-scale, open mockery not of Islam (of course!), but of the religion leftists love to hate: Christianity. Continue reading

Christian Publishing Houses Are Advancing The Apostasy Pandemic In The Church (Reprise)

This article was first published May 13, 2021

By Marsha West

Dr. David F. Wells lamented that he has watched “with growing disbelief as the evangelical church has cheerfully plunged into astounding theological illiteracy.” How can a believer in Jesus Christ plunge into biblical illiteracy?  In part, the blame can be laid squarely on Christian publishing houses for printing theological rubbish.

Enter your local Christian bookstore, gaze around the shop, and eventually you will spot a couple shelves of Bibles in many sizes and colors, leather, hard cover, in every conceivable translation. Publishers promise that their version is the most “accurate” “up-to-date” and “easiest to read.”

Fortunately for me, my mother chose my first Bible. She bought it as a gift for my 18th birthday. It was the KJV, Old and New Testaments, vintage black leather with gold gilding. Over the years I made many notations on the pages of that Bible. Mom was thrilled that her rebellious second born of five requested a Bible and not a trendy outfit.

The two of us spent many hours together browsing the aisles of Christian bookstores. She’d always nudge me toward the Theology section that housed giant hard cover commentaries, concordances and Greek Lexicons. I’d hang out with Mom for a short time then I’d meander over to the Christian Living, Fiction, and invariably end up browsing the “Christian” Music racks. Back then I wasn’t interested in taking a deep dive into God’s Word, even though I cherished my Bible and read it often. Continue reading

Can We Let the Voters Decide—Not the FBI, CIA, DOJ, Lawyers, Prosecutors, and Judges?

“After nearly a decade of utter madness, can we finally order the FBI, DOJ, and CIA to butt out of our elections? Can a bankrupt media cease whipping up hysterias about a supposed Nazi-like takeover?”

(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness) When Donald Trump seemed to have a lock on the 2016 Republican primary, the Democratic Party concluded that the people could not be counted on to do the “right thing” of electing the Democratic candidate in waiting Hillary Clinton.

What followed were eight long years of extralegal efforts to neuter candidate, then President, then ex-President, and then candidate again, Donald Trump. Continue reading

Dr. Ben Carson: Marxism, a Corrupt Media & Threats to Democracy

(Mary Dowling) Dr. Ben Carson spoke with Tucker for nearly two hours about the state of affairs, describing the down-to-earth, kind Donald Trump he has known for ten years. They discussed the media turning an immensely unpopular leftist woman into a “godlike figure” and delved into the North Korean media landscape in the United States.

Carson said they have come for the United States because it makes it easier to move us to a one world government.

When asked if the tens of millions of people brought in would affect the vote, Dr. Carson said, “Of course it will…. Continue reading

‘Proud’ Barack Obama Endorses Kamala Harris for President

“Obama’s scheming has spectacularly backfired”

(Simon Kent – Breitbart) Former U.S. President Barack Obama issued a statement Friday morning endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to be the Democratic 2024 presidential nominee. The move ended days of speculation over whether he would support her after she was anointed by the party.

Obama and ex-First Lady Michelle Obama said in a joint missive they believe Harris has the “vision, the character, and the strength that this critical moment demands.” Continue reading

The ‘Free Palestine’ Nazis Get More Unhinged With Each Protest

“Make no mistake, the mobs are empowered by every Democrat who equivocates over the Israel/Hamas war. Harris and her colleagues may as well be passing out the Palestinian flags at the protests.” 

(Stephen Kruiser – PJ Media) Wednesday to address Congress, and his appearance ended up being an in-kind contribution to the Trump-Vance ’24 campaign.

While the Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media have been furiously rewriting the Kamala Harris story, the “Free Palestine” Hitler Youth stormed the nation’s capital to remind voters exactly what’s at stake in this election…. Continue reading