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

The Biden 10-Step Plan for Global Chaos

“Why and how, in just two years, have a confused and often incoherent Joe Biden and his team created such global chaos? Let us answer by listing 10 ways by which America lost all deterrence.”

(Victor Davis Hanson – America Greatness) Why is French President Emmanuel Macron cozying up to China while trashing his oldest ally, the United States?

Why is there suddenly talk of discarding the dollar as the global currency? Continue reading

Church Group Kicked Out Of ShepCon For Passing Out Heretical Literature Attacks Phil Johnson for Clout + Get Real Whiny

(Protestia) Last month, a church group attending the Shepherds Conference and handing out literature offering $25,000 to anyone who can come to their church and convince them that justification is not by faith alone, were kicked out of the event.

The excised were members of Christ Covenant Church (Denver, CO) led by ‘pastor’ Scott Jarrett, who have become convinced that justification by faith alone is insufficient for salvation. Instead, they believe men and women are saved by grace through faith, but that the salvation must be maintained through faithful obedience to God’s Law…. Continue reading

The ‘Biden Crime Family’ Was All-in on Gain-of-Function Research

“McCormick created a timeline proving a “conspiracy” between Hunter and Joe Biden, along with Biden’s then-spokesman (now national security adviser) Jake Sullivan of using U.S. aid to give to, in this case, Ukraine’s energy needs and then positioning Hunter for a board position on the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.”

(Victoria Taft – PJ Media) Remember when Hunter Biden tagged along on Joe’s trip to China in 2013? Photographers captured the moment when Hunter followed his dad and daughter Finnegan down the stairs of Air Force Two. The Obama White House produced a fawning video about it (watch it below). It was a trip that would pay millions in dividends for what some people call “The Biden Crime Family.” Continue reading

Truth Amidst Turmoil: Discerning and Defending the Faith in the Age of Subtle Spiritual Deception

“These elusive doctrines, often veiled and hard to recognize, pose a significant risk to the Church’s stability and vitality. Subtle contemporary heresies, including the prosperity gospel, easy-believism, and teachings that place our own virtues and ethical actions above God’s grace and kindness, may not be immediately apparent. However, these insidious threats demand the Church’s unwavering vigilance and astute discernment to safeguard its foundational beliefs.”

(The Dissenter) During the early days of Christianity, the fledgling Church faced numerous obstacles and disagreements over its teachings and doctrines. Much of the professing Church found itself at odds over how to interpret scripture and understand doctrine, eventually giving rise to what would be known officially as “heresies”—beliefs or teachings that went against the accepted teachings of the Church. Continue reading

James MacDonald Arrested For Felony Assault

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Former pastor of Harvest Bible Chapel was arrested in California last month following a car accident in a parking lot. The charges include felony assaults, and the incident is being characterized as road rage.

According to police, MacDonald was trying to parallel park his truck about 10:15 a.m. in the 900 block of Orange Avenue when he struck the woman’s car. The two exited their cars, and he “attacked” her, according to Coronado police. Continue reading

Enchanted and Ensnared by Music

“Be discerning with your music. Every song you sing, every hymn you utter on the Lord’s Day, every single lyric that you use at any time – either in congregational worship or in personal worship – test it all against Scripture.” 

(Brandon Hines, 2016) One of the biggest heretics of Church History was a scholar in the 200s named Arius. Arius’s heresy was a denial of the divinity of Jesus. He taught that only the Father was God and that Jesus was merely a creation of God. This heresy was clear and is one of the most blatant examples of heresy throughout the entire history of heresy. Arius has been described as an Arch-Heretic and is an icon for historical false teachers. How was it, then, that Arius spread his doctrine if it was as clearly venomous as it is?… Continue reading

Nearly 100% of the Top 40 Worship Songs over Last Decade Come from 4 Megachurches

“After cross-referencing the Top 100 lists from each, we found that there were only 114 songs associated with just 43 discrete songwriters or churches.”

(Protestia) According to a new report by Worship Leader Research, a mere four megachurches were responsible for producing and releasing nearly all the top worship songs released in the last decade, offering a deep insight into why not only all the songs sound alike, but why their theology is frequently so squishy, vapid, and unbiblical. Continue reading

Ex-Obama staffer blows whistle on Biden ‘kickback scheme’ after Hunter joined Burisma: ‘Malfeasance in office’

(Bailee Hill – Fox News) A former Obama administration staffer is blowing the whistle on the Biden family’s business dealings, accusing President Biden of being involved in a “kickback scheme” in connection with his son Hunter’s overseas business dealings while he was vice president.

Mike McCormick, a stenographer for the White House for 15 years, told “Fox & Friends First” the FBI has been ignoring his alarms on the matter despite his willingness to testify under oath before the federal grand jury investigating Hunter. Continue reading

Manifestations of the Gender Cult

“The alarming truth is that the Rainbow Mafia and members of the gender cult don’t really care about children or other gender-dysphoric individuals. These unfortunate people are just a means to the cultists’ twisted ends.”

(Nate Jackson – The Patriot Post) The ideology pushing gender confusion has become a cult. It’s not a cult in the typical sense of a single charismatic leader deceiving followers with promises of deliverance or some such. But there are an awful lot of Americans drinking the proverbial Kool-Aid when it comes to gender issues, and cult members demand not just tolerance but unwavering devotion. Continue reading

Pentagon Leaks Imply World War III Has Already Begun

(Kevin Downey JR – PJ Media) Remember when leftist harpies screeched that Trump would start World War III? They were only off by one president.

According to a leaked document dated March 23, 2023, the UK, the United States, and several other European nations have boots on the ground in Ukraine.

How Do We Respond to a God That Doesn’t Give Timetables?

“Think of the children of Israel, enslaved for 400 years, trying to hold onto the promise given to their father Abraham that they would have a land of their own, and yet having no timetable on when God would make good on that promise.”

(Michael Kelly – thinke) Nobody likes to wait.

Not for food, not for service, not at the DMV, not for a lull in the video streaming – not for anything. One of the reasons we hate to wait comes from our culture. We live in a culture in which everything is measured against time…. Continue reading

Psychology’s Culpability in the Transgender Movement

“I’m writing this because I want to make sure pastors and parents see the massive worldview shift that is taking place in the schools and so-called sciences. The transgender movement has become the gravitational center of our culture. It is fed by the Bible of psychology, and it targets our kids. We should at least be familiar with the book that is being used to justify the massive surge in the transgender movement.”

(Jesse Johnson – The Cripplegate) Last month, Minnesota introduced legislation making it a “trans-refuge” state. If the legislation passes, it would become a crime for parents to refuse to give their children “gender affirming” care, and parents could lose custody of their children if they refuse to play the gender games. Continue reading

Ken Ham Rebukes Andy Stanley for His Affirmation of Evolution

(The Dissenter) The following rebuke was written by Ken Ham in a post on Twitter:

Watch the short video clip attached of Andy Stanley. He is a teacher with a large flock in Georgia. How should we respond to what he is teaching in this clip?

God’s Word has a severe warning for those of us who are teachers. God instructs us that teachers/leaders are going to be a problem…. Continue reading

Courage Is Contagious

But it takes courage. And when we put that courage into action and stand for truth and for protecting the innocent, others will see it and join in. If it can happen in the NHL, it can happen in the circles we run in. We must band together to stop the woke onslaught.

(Chris Queen – PJ Media) It’s no secret that we live in a world where our culture is turning away from truth and reality. The most egregious examples of this are the sudden obsession with drag queens and the way leftists trip over each other to defend and promote transgender people. Continue reading

Hawley rips Garland for ‘false’ testimony on DOJ recruiting efforts inside churches

Those developments followed a leaked FBI memo that talked about “Radical Traditionalist Catholic” groups and claimed that these groups express an “adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.”

(Elizabeth Elkind – Fox News) EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of providing false testimony to the Senate last month when he said his department is not developing sources inside Catholic churches and other houses of worship, and demanded to know how many “undercover informants or other agents” are aiding the department from these religious sites. Continue reading

Five Observations of Modern Church Liberal Drift and Apostasy

(The Dissenter) Believers in Christ’s atonement are now in declared religious union with those who make light of it; believers in Holy Scripture are in confederacy with those who deny plenary inspiration; those who hold evangelical doctrine are in open alliance with those who call the fall a fable, who deny the personality of the Holy Ghost, who call justification by faith immoral, and hold that there is another probation after death, and a future restitution for the lost. Yes, we have before us the wretched spectacle of professedly orthodox Christians publicly avowing their union with those who deny the faith, and scarcely concealing their contempt for those who cannot be guilty of such gross disloyalty to Christ. —Charles Spurgeon Continue reading

Anheuser-Busch Distributors Across America’s Heartland ‘Spooked’ by Backlash to Transgender Campaign

(John Binder – Breitbart) This month, Bud Light partnered with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, a former gay man who now dresses as a woman and has risen to corporate leftist stardom with his viral TikTok videos chronicling his day-to-day “transition” to a woman.

“This month I celebrated my day 365 of womanhood and Bud Light sent me possibly the best gift ever — a can with my face on it,” Mulvaney says in the Bud Light ad. Continue reading

Fiddling America Away

“The more our chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of defense tour the world, sound off on contemporary strategic issues, or weigh in on domestic politics, the more apprehensive our allies become, wondering how the once-vaunted U.S. Armed Forces have descended into some bizarre woke commissariat.”

(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness) The last few weeks, the world had been writing off the United States as either crazy or irrelevant as it watches America cannibalize itself.

Friends tremble at our sudden decline. Enemies rejoice. Neutrals make the necessary adjustments to join the ascendant non-American side. Continue reading

The IRS Went Down to Georgia to Steal an Election

“How much of an impact did State Voices and its claim of 140 million voter contacts have on the 2022 election? And how much of an impact will its over a thousand partners have in 2024?… Those are inquiries that the IRS does not want to conduct, but they are the burning questions that lie at the core of what it means to have free and fair elections.” 

(Daniel Greenfield – Front Page Mag) An estimated 3.5 million people voted in the Georgia Senate runoff election. State Voices, a leftist nonprofit, claimed that it had made 3 million voter contacts for the runoff. Continue reading

Exposed: The Enneagram Is Woke

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Last week Big Eva figures gathered online to promote the Enneagram in the church. It was previously reported that Tyler Zach was hosting an Enneagram conference and landed Russell Moore among others to appear as speakers and panelists. Evangelical Dark Web has obtained exclusive recordings of the event and the first light we want to shine for the church to see is that the Enneagram is woke or at a minimum an easy tool for woke liberals to wield in the church. Continue reading

‘Trans Dinosaur Expert’ Smuggles Gender Ideology Into Children’s Educational Books

“Male and female he created them…” Gen 5:2

“Riley doesn’t allow reality to prevent him from smuggling his nonsense into children’s books. The groomer never do.”

(Ben Bartee – PJ Media) Riley Black is a “trans dinosaur expert” not only in the sense of being a dinosaur expert who is also transgender. He is also an expert, or so his credentials say, on trans dinosaurs.

Here is an excerpt from Riley’s 2019 treatise on “transgender dinosaurs” in 2019, via Nature (emphases added):

Most official forms give you the binary demographic choices of ‘male’ and ‘female’, but I don’t feel comfortable assigning myself to one or the other for my gender…. Continue reading

Resurrection and Justification

(R.C. Sproul) How is the resurrection of Christ linked to the idea of justification in the New Testament? To answer this question, we must first explore the use and meaning of the term justification in the New Testament. Confusion about this has provoked some of the fiercest controversies in the history of the church. The Protestant Reformation itself was fought over the issue of justification. In all its complications, the unreconciled and unreconcilable difference in the debate came down to the question of whether our justification before God is grounded in the infusion of Christ’s righteousness into us, by which we become inherently righteous, or in the imputation, or reckoning, of Christ’s righteousness to us while we are still sinners. The difference between these views makes all the difference in our understanding of the Gospel and of how we are saved. Continue reading

GOP urged to denounce ‘alarmist’ UN climate change report

“We are told every day that every emission warms the planet. That is clearly not the case. We should not mindlessly and recklessly proceed with dangerous and expensive emissions cuts until this paradox is resolved.”

(Elizabeth Elkind – Fox News) A recent memo sent to every Republican member of Congress is urging lawmakers to dismiss the United Nations’ “alarmist report” on climate change.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently called on wealthy nations to move up its net-zero emissions goal from 2050 to 2040…. Continue reading

Bombshell in the Proud Boys J6 Conspiracy Trial

“The FBI is not supposed to encourage or help people break the law.”

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) J6 Bombshell! At least 40 undercover informants and undercover officers were involved in the crowds on January 6. They came from other government agencies besides the FBI, DC Metro Police, and DHS. Continue reading