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

Heresy presented as mercy

“Be not confused. The Widening of God’s Mercy is a call for a new religion to replace Biblical Christianity. What it calls for is not a revised vision of Christian morality. This is a call for complete theological surrender.”

(Albert Mohler) In case you haven’t caught on, here’s how the world now works. If you want major attention and applause from the cultural left and its influencers, offer a loud and apologetic shift to a more liberal position on an issue of cultural obsession—especially an issue related to LGBTQ priorities. If you have ever affirmed a Biblical vision of human sexuality, you had better apologize profusely. If you ever put your more Biblical convictions into print as a book, you better be ready with another book that explains your newfangled beliefs. Continue reading

Untested. Unprepared. Ready to Do As She’s Told on Day One

“The Democrat hive mind knows exactly what Harris would do as president: anything the hive mind wants. More taxes? More DEI? More regulation? More Green New Deal? More Woke? More support for terrorists in Gaza and Iran?  Let’s go crazy!”

(Stephen Green – PJ Media) At long last, on Wednesday the world got to read Kamala “The Cypher™” Harris’s policy page but there’s just one catch — it was published by the Donald Trump campaign.

Kamala2024Policies attempts to fill in the blanks of Harris’ nearly content-free run at the White House…. Continue reading

Tucker: Biden-Harris Administration Allowed Trump to Get Shot

(Mary Dowling) Tucker explained to Jesse Kelly on The First that the Secret Service and the Biden-Harris administration let him get shot. They withheld adequate protection from Donald Trump, and they did the same with Bobby Kennedy, who fortunately didn’t get hurt.

Tucker said that it doesn’t matter what the intent is. The point is they let it happen. They gave phony doctor Jill more security than Donald Trump.

The message is they didn’t care if they got shot. No one has paid the price. Continue reading

Oprah at DNC: Without Abortion, There is No American Dream

(The Dissenter) In a performance worthy of her self-anointed status as America’s spiritual guide, Oprah Winfrey took to the stage at the DNC to deliver what can only be described as a sermon on the sanctity of abortion. With the gravitas of a high priestess delivering her divine revelation, she proclaimed,

“If you do not have autonomy over this, over this, if you cannot control when and how you choose to bring your children into this world and how they are, [gestures to herself], there is no American dream.” Continue reading

Five Things To Know About The Democratic Party Today

(Clear Truth Media) Here are five key things Christians need to know about the Democratic Party this week.

1 – DNC Offers Vasectomies & Abortions

With the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) currently taking place in Chicago, Planned Parenthood Great Rivers set up a mobile health clinic near the United Center, offering free vasectomies and medication abortions. Though not directly organized by the DNC, it was strategically placed to coincide with the convention, and marks something of a point of emphasis for the party, especially in light of recent legislative changes across the U.S. following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Continue reading

Christianity Today Hires Cussing, N-word Using, Marijuana Promoter as “Big Tent” Director

“This man, who’s so comfortable blurring the lines between the world and the ekklesia, the called-out ones, is being lauded by Christianity Today as the perfect fit to “catalyze the important work” of their Big Tent Initiative.”

(The Dissenter) You know it’s time to grab the nearest wall to bang your head against when you hear the latest news from Christianity Today. In a move that makes you question whether they’ve completely lost their minds—or perhaps their Bibles—the once-somewhat respected, somewhat conservative publication has hired Sho Baraka as the editorial director of its Big Tent Initiative. Continue reading

The Stakes Have Never Been Higher: Schumer Outlines Democratic Agenda ‘With the Guardrails Off.’

Budgets are irrelevant. Taxes are irrelevant. What matters is shoveling money to favored Democratic constituencies and billionaires so that the Democrats can, in the immortal words of FDR’s pal Harry Hopkins, “tax and tax and spend and spend…”

(Rick Moran – PJ Media) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) is a dreamer. And the dream he’s having this week during the Democratic National Convention isn’t of sugar plums and dancing fairies. Continue reading

An Open Letter to Pastors Who ‘Don’t Do Politics’

“I would never presume to tell you what you should preach. You have been called and anointed into leadership. How you choose to fulfill that anointing is entirely between you and God. But you are not called to silence. About anything.”

(Jason Anderson – Clear Truth Media)

Dear Faithful Shepherds,

Goodness knows, it’s hard out there nowadays for church leadership in America. Tensions are high, and the air is thick with opinions. Nobody has a polite disagreement anymore; every conversation about current events has the potential to devolve into a 3 AM Waffle House fight. Continue reading

Kamala Harris to Snub First Debate – Trump Announces Alternate Plans

(Jack Davis – Western Journal)  Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris has pulled out of a proposed Sept. 4 debate on Fox News, according to former President Donald Trump.

“Comrade Kamala Harris has just informed us that she will NOT do the Fox News Debate on September 4th,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

“I am not surprised by this development because I feel that she knows it is very difficult, at best, for her to defend her record setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in,” Trump wrote. Continue reading

Biden Leaves As He Came In: With Lies, Hate & Divisiveness

(Mary Dowling) Joe Biden raged at one point during his farewell address last night. He claimed democracy prevails, has delivered, and must be preserved after the Democrat Party bosses nominated a woman who never won a vote for the position.

Chants of “We Love Joe” broke out.

President Joe Biden started screaming in rage during the DNC speech and smeared Donald Trump once again with the Charlottesville ‘Very Fine People’ lie that has been repeatedly debunked, even by some of the legacy media, including CNN and Snopes.

He does it to spread hate and division. Continue reading

Democrats’ Abortion Van At The DNC Offers A Glimpse Of America’s Future

“…the rationale used in the gay marriage debates of the 2010s is exactly the rationale deployed today in the transgender debate, which will in turn eventually be successfully deployed on behalf of plural marriage, polyamory, and pedophilia and things we have yet to imagine.”

(John Daniel Davidson – The Federalist) Did you hear about the free abortions and sterilizations on offer at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week? Incredibly, the news is real. Abortion-inducing drugs (mifepristone and Plan B) will be doled out from the back of a Planned Parenthood RV, along with vasectomies, just a few blocks from a convention that will embrace a radical abortion-until-birth policy that would have been unthinkable, even for Democrats, just a decade ago. Continue reading

This NYT Headline Captures the Larger Liberal Media Reaction to the Biden Impeachment Report

“This is the story that Trump wanted to know more in better detail during his presidency and got impeached for it. It’s now in The New York Times; he’s vindicated again.”

(Mat Vespa – Townhall) President Joe Biden has been cited for committing impeachable offenses that defrauded the United States and the American public stemming from his operations with his son, Hunter, regarding their government access for cash scheme. Millions of dollars were funneled to the Biden family or through family members and other associates in the form of a network of shell companies…. Continue reading

Panic in the Year 2024

“There is no sympathy here for adults who cannot absorb perspective and who relish propaganda like a fine wine.  However, I am worried about the kids.  Mouth-foaming liberal teachers are legion in this country and some parents live in panic mode round the clock.  Tough on the urchins.”

(Bill O’Reilly) In 1962, a movie called “Panic in the Year Zero” scared the buttered popcorn out of me, a preteen who loved scary stuff.

The film starred Ray Milland and teen idol Frankie Avalon and chronicled a Los Angeles family trying to survive two hydrogen bombs being dropped on California…. Continue reading

Evangelicals For Kamala?

“My goal here is not to discuss all of the political issues surrounding this presidential election.  If you have not made up your mind on these issues, then you are probably sinking in spiritual quicksand. I simply want to remind the reader of two things—how critical this election is, and what part evangelicals must play in it. Elections have consequences.”

(Larry E. Ball – Aquila Report) David French is at it again.  In the New York Times he recently pinned an opinion piece entitled To Save Conservativism from Itself, I Am Voting for Harris. Now he is making his rounds on anti-Christian platforms like MSNBC.  He is also part of a movement called “Evangelicals for Kamala.”… Continue reading

Preliminary Report Finds Thomas Matthew Crooks Was ‘Fragged,’ Rifle Likely Disabled After SWAT Operator’s Incredible Shot

The American public didn’t have a picture of a local law enforcement SWAT team officer taking one shot — from the ground — at Thomas Crooks and his murderous weapon.”

(Joe Saunders – The Western Journal) It was a shot from above that killed would-be assassin Thomas Crooks at a July campaign rally where he almost murdered former President Donald Trump.

But it was a shot from below that took Crooks out of action first, according to a congressional report made public Thursday. Continue reading

Missouri to Place ‘Right to Abortion at Any Time of a Pregnancy’ on Ballot for Constitutional Amendment

Baby at 15 weeks. babycenter screenshot

“Missourians, are you going to let them pull the wool over your eyes yet again? Or will you see through the deception and stand up for the real rights—the rights of the unborn, the rights of parents, and the right to a society that values life over convenience?”

Missouri’s Amendment 3—the latest brainchild of the so-called “champions of freedom,” who seem to have mistaken a graveyard for the land of the free and the home of the brave. Here we go again, with the same old song and dance, where “reproductive rights” apparently means the right to extinguish innocent lives. Continue reading

The Weird, Creepy, Surreal — and Dangerous — 2024 Campaign

(Victor Davis Hanson) The already-long 2024 presidential campaign has become the strangest in modern history.

Here are 10 unanswered questions that illustrate how and why we’ve entered this bizarro world:

1.) How can Kamala Harris merely promise us fixes to come in 2025 for inflation and an open border when she is still vice president for another six months? Why can’t she enact her proposed solutions to these problems (which she helped create) right now? Continue reading

The WHO’s MPox Emergency, They Want $$$ & Vaccines to Start

“Vaccination plus behavioral change among gay and bisexual men. That is the group most affected in the United States in the 2022 outbreak. It has caused U.S. cases of MPox to fall from more than 30,000 in 2022 to 1,700 in 2023. The behavioral change is they cut out most orgies.”

(Mary Dowling) The World Health Organization (WHO) declared MonkeyPox, which WHO now calls MPox, a global health emergency. The most common way it has spread in the past is via gay orgies. However, it can spread without sexual contact and has been. The new strain is more dangerous. The WHO wants money and vaccines. Continue reading

Let the billionaires spend their millions: A review of Shepherds For Sale

“The details of each chapter vary. In the case of COVID, for example, evangelical leaders platformed a guy (Francis Collins) who was literally paid by the government to message their political agenda, and then those same leaders turned around and called evangelicals ‘conspiracy theorists’ if they didn’t accept what Collins (and, by extension, the government) was saying. That is the most direct case of evangelical leaders being misled by political money.”

(Jesse Johnson – The Cripplegate) Inside of American evangelicalism is a paradox: many of the most respected leaders use their influence to steer denominations and institutions in a direction that is significantly more liberal than the people those leaders ostensibly represent. Continue reading

Four Unintended Consequences of the Megachurch Movement – And How To Solve Them

“The future of the church, and our country, depends on us employing a different model and equipping the saints while also reaching the lost. There are practicalities that we can take from the megachurch movement, but the next era of church in this nation must correct the errors above.”

(Steven Whitlow – Clear Truth Media) When I was a seventeen-year-old high school senior, I had to write a senior paper. My family had left our Assemblies of God Church a few years prior, and found ourselves at the up-and-coming local megachurch. I fell in love with it, so much so that my paper’s thesis statement was the following: Continue reading

What Should Suzanne Hinn’s Forensic Accountant Look for During Divorce Case Against Benny Hinn?

“Hinn has regularly preached that people reap what they sow. Now is his time for reaping.”

(Barry Bowen – Trinity Foundation) In a divorce petition filed on July 26, 2024, in Florida, televangelist Benny Hinn’s wife Suzanne Hinn reported, “The marriage between the Wife and Husband is irretrievably broken.”

Suzanne requested spousal support and asked the court, “Require the Husband to contribute to the Wife’s attorney’s fees and costs, including forensic accountant fees, both temporarily and permanently …” Continue reading