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

PCA Denomination Votes To Investigate Sarah Young’s Terrible Book ‘Jesus Calling’

“In a widely shared book review by Tim Challies, he explains most of the major problems with this book, with these two being the most prominent: “1. She speaks for GodFar and away the most troubling aspect of the book is its very premise—that Sarah Young hears from Jesus and then dutifully brings his messages to her readers. Jesus Calling makes the boldest, gutsiest, and, to my mind, most arrogant claim of any book ever to be considered Christian….

(Protestia) This is welcome news! Published in 2004 by the now-deceased Sarah Young, a member of the PCA, Jesus Calling has 45 million copies in print. It is one of the most recognizable devotional books in recent history…. Continue reading

They Never Saw It Coming

How could such things be? What? You mean people don’t want unchecked Muslim immigration into Europe? Say it ain’t so, Joe! They don’t want their countries’ sovereignty chipped away by a lot of socialist wackos in the World Economic Forum—who despise the plebs and call them “useless eaters”?…

(Lee Duigan – News With Views) Leftists like to present themselves to us as The Smartest Persons In The World. We’re just a lot of racist hicks—no wonder they run rings around us. Continue reading

Number Of Children Who Died After COVID Shots Much Higher Than VAERS Reports Indicate

The Defender reviewed a sample of the “unknown age” child death reports in VAERS. “I have a dead 6 years old in my arms; Vaccine doesn’t work.” 

(Michael Nevradakis – Connecticut Centinel) Fetal deaths and miscarriages, sudden cardiac arrest, sudden death and suicides — these are some of the causes of death listed in reports submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) on children who received a COVID-19 vaccine. Continue reading

Don’t Believe the Fake News: Southern Baptists Did NOT Vote to Allow Women Pastors

“These belligerent churches are free to employ female pastors, but they are not considered to be in fellowship with the SBC if they don’t follow the rules, simple as that.” 

(Paula Bolyard – PJ Media) The headlines from the left-wing secular media were gleeful and celebratory:

Southern Baptist ban on women pastors fails in historic vote — The Tennesean

Southern Baptist Convention allowing women pastors after vote — KACO

Southern Baptists Fail to Pass Measure Banning Churches Banning Churches With Women Pastors — WSJ

Southern Baptists narrowly reject formal ban on churches with any women pastors — CNN

On and on it went with a parade of disinformation (don’t expect all those ubiquitous fact-checkers to call out the error). Continue reading

Pride Decried

(Larry Sand – American Greatness) As the Library of Congress notes, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is celebrated each year in the month of June.

An entire month?! Our mothers, fathers, and soldiers only get a day. And then there is the “pride” angle. I’m not sure who you have intimate relations with should be a source of pride any more than your height, weight, or shoe size should be…. Continue reading

Weird Alert! Bethel Pastor Invites Church to Perform ‘Prophetic Act’ and ‘Wallow’ Like A Pig

(Protestia) Chuck Parry is the Director of Healing Ministries at Bethel Church in Redding, California, and one of the primary teacher of the schools. According to his bio, his life is “marked by both faith and the miraculous” and he’s “seen the dead raised, food multiplied, storms move out of the way, the supply of heaven released through supernatural finances, and countless people healed and their lives transformed.”

Readers of Protestia will recognize him as overseeing Bethel Church’s healing schools which spent nearly two years shut down during COVID. Continue reading

Research: Naming Names of Apostates and False Teachers

CRN has compiled a list of professing Christians to keep an eye on. The list contains churches, movements, organizations, groups, pseudo-Christian cults, woke individuals, those who are deconstructing the long held beliefs of historic, orthodox, biblical Christianity and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks”; likewise, heretics, apostates and false teachers you’ll want to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 which says: I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.”

Paul warns in Galatians 1:7, “Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.” People who pervert the gospel will pay dearly. Here’s what false teachers are in for: “If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!” Galatians 1:9

Jude also deals with counterfeit Christians: “They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.” Jude 11

In Matthew 7:15-20 the Lord Jesus gave His followers fair warning that we would recognize phonies by their fruits: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.”

“There’s a difference between error and heresy. Heresy is something that strikes at the very heart of the gospel and of the truth.” RC Sproul

NAMING NAMES (Click on the name then read the articles)

See the list of NAR wolves and their organizations here

See the list of Word of Faith, Health & Wealth, Prosperity Gospel here

See the list of leaders in the Emergent/Emergence/Emerging Church movement here

Jesus Calling Endorsers

Bud Ahlheim put together a list of several high-profile Christians who’ve endorsed the best-selling book Jesus Calling. The thing that’s most troubling about any Christian who touts Jesus Calling is that doing so indicates a lack of spiritual discernment. The author, Sarah Young, claims that she hears directly from Jesus Christ and “with pen in hand” she wrote down the words of the “Jesus” she channels….and then she shared this nonsense in a book. Tim Challies cautioned: “Jesus Calling makes the boldest, gutsiest, and, to my mind, most arrogant claim of any book ever to be considered Christian.” Here’s Bud’s list – some of these folks may surprise you:

Max Lucado, “Pastor and Bestselling Author”

Mark Batterson, Pastor and author of another book of heresy, The Circle Maker

Melinda Gates, Wife of a billionaire

Roma Downey, Catholic Hollywood Mystic and Filmmaker

Rev. James Martin, SJ, Jesuit Priest

Shauna Niequist, “Bestselling Author of ‘Bread and Wind’ and ‘Savor’”

O.S. Hawkins, “Author of the Bestselling ‘The Joshua Code’ and ‘The Jesus Code’”

Dr. Jack Graham, “Pastor, Prestonwood Baptist Church, Dallas, TX”

Sheila Walsh, “Bestselling Author and Speaker”

Johnny Hunt, “Pastor, First Baptist Church, Woodstock, GA”

Dr. & Mrs. Richard Lee, “Speaker for the Award-Winning ‘There’s Hope In America’ Television Series”

Kathie Lee Gifford, “Host of the ‘Today Show’, Author, Singer, and Actress”

Delilah, “Nationally Syndicated Radio Personality, Author, and Songwriter”

Robert J. Morgan, “Pastor of The Donelson Fellowship in Nashville, TN”

Robert Morris, “Founding Senior Pastor of Gateway Church in Dallas, Texas”

Gretchen Carlson, “Television Commentator and Author”

Ainsley Earhardt, “Co-host ‘Fox & Friends First’”

Sean Lowe, “ABC Television’s ‘The Bachelor’ and Author of ‘For The Right Reasons’”

Charlie Daniels, “Award-Winning Country Music Superstar”

Jimmy Wayne, “Country Artist and Bestselling Author of ‘A Walk To Beautiful’”

Diana Hobbs, “President and CEO, ‘Empowering Everyday Women’ Magazine

Katie Farrell, ‘Popular Blogger of ‘Dashing Dish’”

Mike Reed, “Senior Vice President, Salem Media Group’

Scott Sauls, “Pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville

Janet Hunt, “First Lady, First Baptist Church, Woodstock, GA”

Diane Strack, “Author of ‘New Start For Single Moms’”

Josh Warren, “CEO, Purpose Driven Communications”

Rev. Bob Fuguay, “Author, Senior Pastor at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Indianapolis”

Anne Wright, “Wife of Johnson Ferry Baptist Senior Pastor, Bryant Wright”

Emily Ley, “Founder of Emily Ley Lifestyle Brand”

James Robison, “Host of ‘Life Today,’ Founder of Life Outreach International & The Stream Website”

Reba McEntire, “Bestselling Author, Artist and Actress”

Linda Leathers, “Chief Executive Officer, The Next Door”

Dr. Cindy Ryan, “Pastor, Writer, Speaker and Blogger”

Mike Gallagher, “Host of Salem Radio Network’s Mike Gallagher Show”

Kristin Chenoweth, “Emmy and Tony Award-Winning Actress and Singer”

Phil Keaggy, “Guitarist, GMA Dove Award Winner, Grammy Award Nominee”

Lyn Mettler, “Writer and Blogger”

The list is sourced from the promotional website JesusCalling.com. (The site removed the endorsements. Here are the endorsements as well as what the endorsers wrote over at Christianbook.com.)

Calling Out False Teachers By Name – Right Response Ministries interviews Justin Peters.

Discernment Made Easy: A List of Celebrity Christians Who Declare The Bible Insufficient — Justin Peters

There is a biblical mandate for calling out false teachers, or “naming names”:

You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. 2 Tim 1:15

…holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith, among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. 1 Tim 1:19-20

For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 2 Tim 4:10

…and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 2 Tim 2:17

Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, 2 Peter 2:15

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works. 2 John 9-11

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Matthew 23:25-28

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – Theological Liberalism: The Classic Collection with R.C. Sproul — We are living in a day when liberal theology has made deep inroads in the church. Many professing Christians and even ordained ministers no longer believe in the authority of Scripture or the resurrection of Jesus Christ. How can people deny these essential doctrines and still call themselves Christians? In this message, Dr. Sproul explains that liberal Christianity is not Christianity at all. It is nothing more than unbelief.

What is Biblical Discernment?

 

There Are No Civilians in Gaza. Hamas are the civilians

“The latest Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research poll shows that 71% of Gazans support the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7 and 56% expect Hamas to win the war. 62% in Gaza are happy with the performance of Hamas during the war and 59% want Hamas to stay in power.”

(Daniel Greenfield – Front Page) Americans expected Osama bin Laden to be found in a cave in Afghanistan. In reality, he was living comfortably in a military town in Pakistan under the protection of local authorities. Similarly, Israeli hostages, including the four who were last rescued, have come home telling stories of being kept captive in ‘civilian’ households. Continue reading

BREAKING: Verdict Reached in Hunter Biden Trial

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Hunter Biden was found guilty on three felony charges for illegally buying and possessing a gun while addicted to crack cocaine. Federal law expressly makes it illegal for individuals using illicit drugs to possess firearms. He could face 25 years in prison and fines for the conviction.

The quickness of the jury’s return had most experts predicting a guilty verdict.

The outcome of this trial was hard to predict. Unlike the New York case against Trump, the evidence against Hunter Biden was substantial and incontrovertible…. Continue reading

US Fake News Misrepresents the IDF Hostage Rescue

“The NY Times presented the horror from the Palestinian viewpoint. It was “unimaginable.” Somehow, the fact that Hamas used them as human shields never came up. WaPo talked about the “wall of fire,” and CNN regurgitated the Times article.”

(Mary Dowling) Israel’s IDF rescued four hostages from Hamas control. They were kept in civilian residences. An IDF soldier and dozens of Gazans died during the rescue attempt because Hamas used their people as human shields. That is what happened. Continue reading

Tony Evans ceases pastoral ministry ‘due to sin,’ enters ‘time of spiritual recovery and healing’

(Baptist Press) In a statement  posted on the Oak Cliff Bible Church website, church leaders have announced that Senior Pastor Tony Evans has stepped away from his staff role at the church due to falling “short of the high standards of [S]cripture.” Leaders say the “difficult decision” was made with tremendous prayer and after multiple meetings with Evans and church elders.

“The elder board is obligated to govern the church in accordance with the [S]criptures,” said a statement on the church’s website. “Dr. Evans and the elders agree that when any elder or pastor falls short of the high standards of scripture, the elders are responsible for providing accountability and maintaining integrity in the church.” Continue reading

The Left Knows Leftism Doesn’t Work

“No one any longer claims that Christopher Steele’s dossier was factual. No one insists that Hunter Biden’s laptop was likely “Russian disinformation”, or that “Anonymous” was a courageous “top-ranking” administration official. All these hysterias, it is tacitly admitted, were cooked-up left-wing canards to emasculate the Trump candidacy and presidency.”

(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness) Do not expect the radical left to survey the wreckage of socialism and communism in history and accept that statism impoverishes people and erodes their freedoms. There will never be admissions by our elite that progressivism exists mainly for the acquisition of power by the utopian and virtue-signaling few, who ensure that they are never subject to the baleful implementation of their ideological agendas on the rest of us. Continue reading

Ex-CDC Director: Vaccine Mandates Were Not Based on Science

“We can criticize Chris Cuomo for his past vaccine bullying, and I have, but we need to appreciate the information he is willing to share now. We can say the same thing about Dr. Redfield.”

(Mary Dowling) As we reported, former CDC Director Robert Redfield dropped shocking news in an interview with Chris Cuomo nearly a week ago that the mainstream media chose to ignore and still barely notice.

This interview with Chris Cuomo is very important. Dr. Robert Redfield spoke about the origins and ongoing impact of COVID-19, including the role of U.S. and Chinese research in the virus’s development…. Continue reading

Biden His Time

“He told [ABC News anchor David] Muir he has known Putin for 40 years. Uh-oh. Evil Vlad is 71 and has run Russia for 24 years. So, how did Joe know him 16 years before that, as the dictator was essentially a spy? Camping trip to Siberia?”

(Bill O’Reilly) Some observations about President Biden’s interview in Normandy last week with ABC News anchor David Muir.  Since I, your humble correspondent, have interviewed six presidents, my take might be worthy.

Muir spoke as much or more than the President in the taped exposition…. Continue reading

Doctors’ Declaration Demands Stop to ‘Trans Treatments’ for Kids

(Catherine Salgado – P Media) A group of medical and health professionals are denouncing “the harmful approach” so much of the healthcare industry now takes to children confused about their biological sex. Damaging young people mentally and physically to help them pretend to be transgender is not evidence-based and should be rejected as a treatment method.

The Doctors Protecting Children Declaration, released this week by the American College of Pediatricians, presents a strong and well-researched argument against transgender so-called “treatments” for kids and teens…. Continue reading

Transgender Nashville Christian School Shooter Wanted to Return Home and Kill Her Dad After Massacre

(Breitbart) Audrey Hale, the 28-year-old woman who believed she was a man and shot and killed six at a Nashville Christian school on March 27, 2023, wanted to return home after the attack and kill her father.

On Friday, Brian Wilson of 99.7 WTN afternoon radio released portions of an interview between Metro Nashville Police Department investigators and Hale’s parents, and the Tennessee Star published the transcript.

In the interview, police asked Hale’s father and mother if they were aware that Hale was fixated on transitioning and asked if she ever expressed homicidal tendencies. Continue reading

Prominent Expert: mRNA Nanoparticle Injections Are Bioweapons

(Mary Dowling) The Miami Independent, a Creative Destruction Media outlet, reported that Harvard-educated law professor Dr. Fancis Boyle provided an affidavit in a Florida case stating under oath that the COVID-19 nanoparticle injections and mRNA nanoparticle injections are biological weapons and weapons of mass destruction and violate Biological Weapons 18 USC § 175; Weapons and Firearms § 790.166 Fla. Stat. (2023).

Dr. Boyle isn’t just anyone. He wrote the 1989 Biological Weapons/Antiterrorism Act and is currently a professor of international law at the University of Illinois. Continue reading

Israel rescues 4 hostages kidnapped by Hamas: ‘We are overjoyed’

“Officers of the National Police special anti-terror unit of Yamam along with Shin Bet agents simultaneously raided two Hamas buildings to pluck the hostages to safety.” 

(Fox News) The IDF said the hostages, three men and one woman, were rescued in the largest such hostage recovery operation since the war with Hamas began in Gaza.

Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Shlomi Ziv, 41, and Andrey Kozlov, 27, were rescued in two separate locations in a complex special daytime operation in the heart of Nuseirat in central Gaza. They had been held in captivity by the terrorist group for 246 days. Continue reading

The Myth That Biden Had Nothing to Do With the Prosecutions of Trump

“It was not enough for the shameless Bragg to campaign flagrantly on promises to go after Trump. In addition, Bragg brashly drafted a top Democratic operative and political appointee from inside Joe Biden’s DOJ to head his prosecution.”

(Victor Davis Hanson) The five criminal and civil prosecutions of former President Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President Joe Biden and Democrat operatives had a role in any of them.

But Biden has long let it be known that he was frustrated with his own Department of Justice’s federal prosecutors for their tardiness in indicting Trump. Continue reading

Review: The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

Heresy alert below.

(Dean Good – Grace Church) Over the years I have heard references to and quotes from this little work.  Recently I have been asked by several people about this book.  So I finally read it.  As I read it, I was somewhat amazed that evangelical Christians would recommend it (as so many do these days).  I will, therefore, take the time to critique this ‘Christian classic’ in some detail, using it as an exercise in discernment.

I will begin by observing that two things struck me immediately, before I ever opened the book.  First, the author goes by the title ‘Brother’ . . . obviously he is a Roman Catholic monk…. Continue reading

There’s Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton’s False Gospel

(Ericka Andersen – The Federalist) Fifty years after her original rise to stardom, Dolly Parton has released her highest-charting album and is more beloved than ever before. Initially known for her songwriting skills and beauty, Parton has entered her golden years as a “secular American saint.”

In a world where division is the default, she collects fans of every political stripe, refusing to denigrate anyone, and regularly proclaims, “I love everybody,” when asked how she does it.

This response is usually seen as a nod toward the LGBT alliance during interviews with media folks forever fixated on this particular group. Continue reading

World’s largest children’s books publisher releases radical ‘LGBTQIA+’ guide targeting K-12 children

“There are no ‘queer’ identities,” said prolific truth-teller James Lindsey, referencing the actual meaning of the term.  “A person cannot *be* queer…It’s only possible to *act* queer, which is an oppositionally defiant political stance taken on as a personal identity…It’s choosing to be functionally personality disordered and thinking it’s your true self.”

(LifeSiteNews) Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, has published its 2024 “pride” guide for teachers of grades K-12, overflowing with ideological promotion of “LGBTQIA+” stories, advice, and “affirmation” targeting children and adolescents.     Continue reading

Priscilla Shirer, Max Lucado, and T. D. Jakes: Betraying the Gospel?

“Whatever words Shirer and Lucado express in this Easter message that sound biblical are rendered hollow by the association with modalist T. D. Jakes. It is against Scripture to treat a false teacher like Jakes as though he is a brother in Christ, and to appear to be in theological agreement with him. Teachers are held to a higher standard; therefore, it is only biblical to warn about Shirer and Lucado because they are not trustworthy teachers. They either do not have discernment, or they fail to exercise it, or they have no issues with modalism.”

(Marcia Montenegro – Christian Answers for the New Age) Popular speaker and Bible teacher Priscilla Shirer and writer and Pastor Max Lucado joined with modalist T. D. Jakes of The Potter’s House two years ago in bringing an Easter message. This is not the first time that either Shirer or Lucado have associated with Jakes in ministry. Lucado has done several positive interviews of Jakes and Shirer’s associations with Jakes are too numerous to list. Continue reading