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

‘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

Trying to gut the court?

(Jerry Newcombe – RenewAmerica) Bad ideas can often get accepted long after they were initially rejected. One generation recoils at a proposal. The next generation might cozy up to it. And the one after that might accept it.

Some on the left, including the lame duck President Joe Biden and AOC, want to gut the Supreme Court. They haven’t gotten their way with the Court in recent years, so they want to try and term-limit justices out. Continue reading

Elon Musk: ‘Woke Mind Virus’ Led to Estrangement from ‘Transgender’ Son

Elon Musk says his son is “dead” thanks to the woke mind virus after he was put on puberty blockers, says he vowed to “destroy the woke mind virus after that.”

(Lucas Nolan – Breitbart) Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has attributed the estrangement from his “transgender” son to what he terms the “woke mind virus,” explaining this experience has caused him to “vow to destroy the woke mind virus.”

In a recent interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of X (formerly Twitter), made strong statements regarding his estranged “transgender” son and the state of gender politics in America…. Continue reading

Heritage Oversight Project Tracked Crooks’s Visitors

“They went to work on Thomas Crooks, the would-be Trump assassin, an unlikely candidate for recruitment by a third party, or is he?”

(Mary Dowling) During the grilling of Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle yesterday, she refused to say if there was a second shooter and referred that and most questions to the FBI, a weaponized agency of the government. Her response added to speculation.

According to officials at his high school who posted information about him on their website, Crooks was a good student who was not bullied. It is different from the media narrative based on some student interviews. Continue reading

Secret Service Director Resigns

“After the hearing, Chairman James Comer and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin wrote a joint letter to Cheatle calling for her resignation.” 

(Katie Pavlich – Townhall) After overseeing the worst security failure in the past four decades, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned.

The decision comes more than a week after an attempted assassin shot former President Donald Trump in the ear from an unsecured rooftop during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Continue reading

2019 Ranking Service Rated Kamala Harris as Most Liberal Senator, Further Left than Even Bernie Sanders

“In a list of all 100 senators in 2019, Harris scored #100, winning the title of the most leftist senator. For greater perspective, Sanders came in right behind her at #99.”

(Hannah Knudsen – Breitbart) Vice President Kamala Harris was rated the most liberal senator in 2019 — further left than even Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — according to a GovTrack scorecard.

Harris, whom President Joe Biden opted to back after announcing that he will not seek reelection after all, was viewed as the most liberal senator prior to her becoming vice president. Continue reading

ERLC Chooses Democrat Party Over Southern Baptists

Update below.

“ERLC head Brent Leatherwood offered the same talking points as the left-wing media and Democrat Party, telling Baptist Press that Biden “walked away from power” in a “selfless act.” Leatherwood then gave further life to this lie in an essay that compared the Oval Office being pried from Biden’s desperate, bony fingers to Calvin Coolidge’s measured choice not to run again though Coolidge enjoyed enough popularity to win reelection handily.”

(Megan Basham – Clear Truth Media) Immediately after Joe Biden posted a statement on social media Sunday announcing his withdrawal from the presidential race, Democrats, the media, and Hollywood pretended it was the result of selflessness rather than political assassination. Continue reading

Obama’s Backstabbing Of Biden Demonstrates The Democrat Party’s Moral Bankruptcy

“Democrats aren’t worried that Biden’s cognitive decline is a real, serious, and immediate threat to national security. They only fretted about Biden’s electoral ability to carry a far-left administration forward for another term.” 

(Tristan Justice – The Federalist) Democrats just spent years grandstanding on “democracy” and then dismissed more than 14 million voters who nominated President Joe Biden for a second term.

On Sunday, the Democrat Party’s presumptive nominee was “deposed in a coup,” as tech billionaire David Sacks said it, at the direction of former President Barack Obama, who was obviously behind the entire operation…. Continue reading

Where’s Joe? What’s Going On? Is Any of This Really Happening?

“Is he so far gone at this point that he has to be kept under wraps while others, presumably the people who have been running this administration from the beginning, make decisions in his name? That wouldn’t be too different from how things have been going, but up until now, Old Joe has, however ineptly, been performing his duties as the front man. Now, for his most important announcement of this election campaign, he is nowhere in sight and all we get is a letter on X?”

(Robert Spencer – PJ Media) Old Joe Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday afternoon. Everyone saw his post on X. In a follow-up message on X, Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidential nomination, and Democrat leaders began lining up (with the notable exception of Barack Obama) to endorse her. The controversy over Biden’s dementia and ability to perform the duties of president appears to be over, although the nagging and quite large issue remains of whether he is able to perform the duties of president for the next seven months. And yet almost immediately, questions about the way Biden withdrew began to swirl, including the basic one: did he really withdraw at all? Continue reading

Can Christians really vote for Trump?

“The GOP is doing its best this year to embody the coexist bumper sticker, and while I’m no political expert, I’m very certain of this truth: pagans gonna pagan. My contention is that no mature believer should be the least surprised by this.” 

(Mike Edwards – Clear Truth Media) The 2024 Republican National Convention took place this week and, for some reason, many Christians were under the impression that a Christian worship service was the order of the day. But instead of Chris Tomlin coming out and singing “How Great is Our God,” delegates and other attendees got a steady influx of the likes of reality TV stars such as Amber Rose – also equally known for her coarse language when advocating for abortion – showing their support for Trump. Continue reading

Joe Biden Quitting Exposes Three Years of Corporate Media Lies

“They saw the videos we saw, and then they lied about them to protect a man they knew wasn’t fit to serve as president. What’s more, they saw Biden a lot more than we did. They saw him at political events, at gatherings… They saw him at the White House… They talked to the people around them… They knew more than we did and still they covered up this obvious danger to our country.”

(John Nolte – Breitbart) Joe Biden himself finally admitting he is in no condition to run for reelection is the smoking gun that definitively proves the corporate media have been lying and covering up the truth of his condition for years. Continue reading

Fear and Uncertainty

“Although we rejoice in Christ’s victory over the grave, we nevertheless fear death. Christians are not guaranteed exemption from a painful death. Nevertheless, the thought of death often brings fear for Christians and non-Christians alike. That fear is bound up with the question of what happens after death.”

(R.C. Sproul – Ligonier Ministries) Death is the greatest problem human beings encounter. We may try to tuck thoughts of it away in the far corners of our minds, but we cannot completely erase our awareness of our mortality. We know that the specter of death awaits us.

The Apostle Paul writes: Continue reading

Put Away Your Conspiracy Theories: Christ Reigns

“One of the psychological attractions of conspiracy theories is the same thing that attracts people to Gnosticism: the thrill of secret knowledge, knowing something that mere ordinary people do not know. This is part of the attraction of movements like QAnon.”

(R. Scott Clark – The Heidelblog) There is a risk in writing about fast-changing news. As of this writing, we do not know why a disturbed young man tried to murder the former president of the United States. He appears to have been a loner, bullied, who lashed out by climbing upon an unguarded roof about 150 yards from Donald Trump. His shot missed Mr Trump but he murdered someone in the crowd behind Mr Trump and injured others. Continue reading

Catastrophic Failure of July 13 Is Even Worse Than We Knew

“A Wall Street Journal report notes that the killer had a drone that he used to survey the property. Meanwhile, the Secret Service did not have a drone.”

(Mary Dowling) If you think this catastrophic Secret Service failure can’t get worse, think again. This is what happens when you put Jill Biden’s sociologist friend Kim Cheatle in charge of the Secret Service. Cheatle also protected Dick Cheney who hates the former president. Continue reading

LGBT Republican group praises new watered down Republican platform

“Conservatives previously criticized the new platform for removing almost all language opposed to abortion, as well as adding language in favor of access to all forms of birth control and IVF….” 

(Ben Zeisloft – The Sentinel) Log Cabin Republicans, a coalition of Republicans in favor of homosexuality and transgenderism, celebrated the adoption of a new Republican Party platform on Monday which removes most references to marriage and all policy recommendations to defend the institution. Continue reading

Can Christianity Survive Democracy?

“The “no creed but the Bible” slogan may have its roots in the Stone-Campbellite movement, but its influence certainly did not remain there. American culture quite tangibly venerates the autonomous human will, the idol our culture has chosen to worship with a fiercely affectionate fidelity. But should such voluntarism and self-rule find its home within the church?”

(Josh Howard – Clear Truth Media) The term “democracy” is often liberally thrown about and can serve as a shorthand for the people’s will in action. At its best, democracy amplifies individual voices, but at its worst it can turn the individual into God, and in our secular age, it often looks like the latter. When God is removed as the transcendent reference point of the system, the system does not end up with no god, but with a new one: people seeking individual self-gratification as its ideal. Though Christianity may endure democracy, how could democracy hope to survive without Christianity? Continue reading