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

Reject Vice. Just Say No – No porn, no pot, no gambling, no video games, no tattoos, no profanity

“A community with this moral ecology would be valuable to anyone. A logical place to create one would be the church. But I think it would be very difficult for evangelical churches to create this culture when it comes to vice. They struggle with anything they can’t describe as objectively sinful or linked to some Biblical proof text. Porn is obviously wrong. But is it a sin to buy a lottery ticket or get a tattoo? I’d say no.”

(Aaron Renn) In his 1987 novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe wrote, “If you want to live in New York, you’ve got to insulate, insulate, insulate.” Continue reading

Top Evangelical Leftist Ring-Leaders are Even Further Left Than ‘I Don’t Know What a Woman Is’ Ketanji Brown Jackson

“Despite all of this, two of the nation’s top Evangelical liberal figureheads, Russell Moore and David French, are even further left than these far-left progressive activists on the Supreme Court.”

(The Dissenter) The appointment of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court has cast a long shadow over the principles of constitutional fidelity and judicial restraint. Her ascent to the bench, celebrated by progressives, is an unmitigated testament to the far-left’s grip on the levers of power, where ideology most often trumps impartiality…. Continue reading

Dallas Jenkins Lies About Mormons And The Chosen Not Being A Ministry

“Dallas Jenkins begins answering the Mormon question by explaining that The Chosen is no longer working through Angel Studios, a Mormon-owned company, but declines to go into more detail. Allen Parr seems to be aware of the lawsuits surrounding The Chosen’s strained relationship with its former distributor.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) The Chosen has been on a media campaign for its fourth season and Dallas Jenkins tapped Allen Parr for an interview where he responds to criticisms about the show. Allen Parr is a woke player in Christian YouTube defending Eric Mason and attacking discernment ministries…. Continue reading

Atheist Group Asks IRS To Strip Tax-Exempt Status from Megachurch After Political Endorsement From Pulpit

(Protestia) The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) is asking the IRS to remove the tax-exempt status from Calvary Chapel Chino Hills church after Senior pastor Jack Hibbs seemingly made a political endorsement of former MLB player Steve Garvey to the California Senate from the pulpit, a violation of their 501(c)(3) status. In a letter sent to the IRS they explain:

On Sunday, February 25, 2024, Pastor Jack Hibbs once again used his Sunday service to endorse a political candidate, telling his congregation to “vote for Steve Garvey” in the upcoming CA primary. Continue reading

SCOTUS Unanimously Rules States Cannot Disqualify Trump from 2024 Ballot

(Bradley Jaye – Breitbart)  Colorado cannot disqualify former President Donald Trump from appearing on the 2024 ballot, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday.

In a historic ruling, the Supreme Court said only Congress can disqualify a candidate from the ballot using the Fourteenth Amendment’s “Insurrection Clause”, overturning a 4-3 opinion in December from the Colorado Supreme Court that the provision prohibits former President Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot for the presidency in 2024. Continue reading

The Left’s Latest Attack on Christianity

“There is no United States of America — at least as it was designed and as we have known it — without natural law. In place of the internal restraints on antisocial behavior provided by widespread religious belief, the Left instead argues — always — for the growth of government to rein in the chaos created by their own encouragement of license. We need only look at our cities to see what this has wrought.”

(Laura Hollis – The Patriot Post) In a paroxysm of panic about Americans’ rejection of the Biden administration’s policies of open borders, rampant crime, runaway inflation and profligate spending on foreign wars, the Left has decided that the real cause of the widespread dissatisfaction and demand for policies that place Americans first is “Christian nationalism.” Continue reading

Impeachment Bombshell: James Biden Confirms that Joe Biden Received $40K From China

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) During his testimony in the impeachment inquiry, James Biden admitted that a Chinese government-linked company, CEFC China Energy, funded a $40,000 check that went to Joe Biden in 2017.

James Biden claimed that he did not believe that CEFC China Energy was under the control of the CCP. He clarified, stating, “I just misspoke” about a previous statement he made during a 2022 IRS interview…. Continue reading

4 Biblical Reasons I Rejected Evolution

The famous Atheist apologist Richard Dawkins is correct when he says, “The evangelical Christians have really got it right in seeing evolution as the enemy. Whereas the more sophisticated theologians are quite happy to live with evolution are deluded – I think the evangelicals have got it right in that there really is a deep incompatibility between evolution and Christianity.”

(Jim McCarthy – Gospel Reformation) As a freshman biology major, I needed no convincing of the Theory of Evolution. Raised on the Discovery Channel and Bill Nye the Science Guy, I’d been an Evolution evangelist for years. But by the end of my first year in college, I rejected the Theory I once loved. My grounds were scientific in nature. Continue reading

American Paralysis and Decline

“Apparently, our generation prefers being praised as “virtuous” and “caring.” So it leaves the next generation to be smeared as “cruel” and “unfair” when it is forced to cut federal entitlements and bloated government or face civilizational collapse.”

(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness) We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies.”

So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.- A.D. 17) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic. Continue reading

The Ever-Increasing Seduction of False Teachers in Our Postmodern Fallen World

“This moral compromise does not merely lead individuals astray—it erodes the very foundations of the church, remaking it from a guardian of light and truth in a dark world into a mirror of the world’s own quagmire of sin and despair. The call to holiness, a defining mark of the Christian’s life, is overshadowed by a pursuit of personal happiness and cultural approval, betraying the gospel and the One who called us to follow Him, no matter the cost.”

(The Dissenter) In the verdant beauty of Eden, where humanity first walked with God, the serpent’s whisper, “Did God really say…?” marked the inception of humanity’s tragic fall. This ancient deception mirrors a modern crisis, as the world, and the vast majority of the professing Church, reels under the seduction of false teachers…. Continue reading

The Left Demands Millions of Human Sacrifices to Appease the Gods of Climate Change

“What progressives are pitching with the green agenda today is anything but progress, and their prescriptions to maintain political power are sillier and deadlier than ever.  But that doesn’t stop young people, being tutored in the modern-day temples that we call universities, from offering their absolute devotion to this green doomsday cult.”

(William Sullivan – American Thinker) “At their Monday night poker game in hell,” writes Mark Steyn, “I’ll bet Stalin, Hitler, and Mao are kicking themselves. ‘It’s about leaving a better planet for our children?’ Why didn’t we think of that?”

These three evil socialists of yesteryear would certainly be green with envy at the way today’s green socialists have convinced millions of citizens to willingly surrender their liberty to the State. Continue reading

The Chosen Advertises Getting God’s Sovereignty Wrong

“The Chosen portrays Jesus as teaching bad theology unironically as some sort of banger to promote the show’s theatrical release. This is just the latest issue with an otherwise problematic show.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Darb Web) The Chosen’s fourth season is underway with an incremental theatrical release. So despite affirming homosexuality on their set and in their promotional material, The Chosen nevertheless remains a pervasive force in Christianity, as The Shack was many years ago.

Our series reviews thus far have highlighted The Chosen’s seeker-friendly approach to adapting the Bible…. Continue reading

Migrant Surge Brings Killers and Criminal Gangs

“Public safety is visibly spiraling downward: migrants beating cops in Times Square; migrants running prostitution rings; migrants on mopeds robbing pedestrians; migrants shoplifting and stripping retail stores; and now a migrant who recently left New York has been arrested for killing a Georgia nursing student, Laken Riley.” 

(Betsy Caughey – Townhall) Former New York City Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly, the department’s longest-serving commissioner, cautioned on Sunday that New York City’s quality of life “has really deteriorated.” Migrant crime is a major reason.

Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang and El Salvador’s feared MS-13 — what former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker calls “prison-spawned gangs” — are threatening to take over American cities.,,, Continue reading

The Trump Dilemma

“A mystery of the universe is why Donald Trump does not make his record the centerpiece of his current campaign. Once again, emotion clouds the situation.”

(Bill O’Reilly) It is exceedingly difficult to get an accurate, fair assessment of Donald Trump. The liberal media despises him to a cartoonish degree, and some on the right have elevated him to cult leader status.

So, Americans and folks living abroad are being misled about a man who could be leading the United States again by this time next year. If that happens, Mr. Trump would join the hefty Grover Cleveland in the non-consecutive presidential terms category. Continue reading

Right Now Media Brings Left-Wing Partisan Political Indoctrination to Church Small Groups

Attempts to gain political power and enact laws that reflect Biblical values by Christian conservatives like U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson are rhetorically slapped down with the labels of “Political Idolatry” and “Christian Nationalism.”

(Paul Brown) With less than nine months until the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, political operatives of all stripes are hard at work using all means of persuasion to push the electorate to vote for their candidate. In early 2023, Protestia reported on the launch of The After Party, a left-wing political indoctrination campaign produced under the guise of a church small group curriculum…. Continue reading

Tucker Carlson: The 2020 Election Was ‘100 Percent Stolen’ From President Trump

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) In an interview with Russian-American computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman, Tucker Carlson declared that the 2020 presidential election was “100% stolen” and explained why.

“You said to some degree the election was rigged,” Fridman began. “Was it stolen?”

“It was 100% stolen,” Carlson replied. “Are you joking?”

“Like, it was rigged to that large—” Continue reading

Francis Chan Says God Wants Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox All at the Same Communion Table

“With Chan’s new ecumenical take on spirituality, one has to wonder, when will he join and unite with other religions, including Islam…”

(The Dissenter) Francis Chan, who has been moving decidedly ecumenical in recent years while abandoning the distinctions that differentiate biblical Christianity from other sects including Roman Catholicism, is once again preaching a gospel of superficial unity between various, contradictory denominations that call themselves “Christian.” Continue reading

A Tale of Two Paintings: Reformation vs. Deconstruction

(Tim Barnett – Stand to Reason) In my previous article describing three fundamental problems with deconstruction, I explained why I now urge Christians to reform rather than deconstruct their faith. To better understand the distinction between reformation and deconstruction, consider stories about two different paintings. Both paintings are of Jesus, and both are now famous—but for different reasons.

Reformation: Salvator Mundi

The first painting is called Salvator Mundi, Latin for “Savior of the World.” It depicts Jesus wearing a Renaissance-era robe while holding a transparent orb in his left hand and giving a blessing with his right. Art experts long believed it was a copy of a lost original by Leonardo da Vinci…. Continue reading

The Left’s War on Taboos: Get ready for the normalization of cannibalism

“The left has already normalized (or is in the process thereof) eating insects instead of meat, the sexual grooming of children, men conquering women’s sports, the medical mutilation of adults and children in service to the lie of gender ideology, polyamory, pedophilia – why would cannibalism be off-limits?”

(Mark Tapson – Front Page) Recently I watched the harrowing 2023 survival thriller Society of the Snow, based on the book of the same name about the real-life 1972 plane crash in the Andes that left a rugby team and families and friends to fend for themselves in the unforgiving elements…. Continue reading

TGC Podcaster Says ‘I think Christianity Makes a Case that to be Human is to Have (Gender) Dysphoria’

“Ferguson’s approach embraces the world’s attitude toward this sin, waters it down with language like “brokenness” and “dysphoria,” in an effort to downplay the seriousness of this sin. Instead of being something that we should be turning from and being sanctified out of, it becomes something that we must live with and accept….”

(The Dissenter) The Gospel Coalition (TGC) has been one of the leading organizations smuggling in aberrant theologies and vain philosophies into mainstream Evangelicalism that are either blatantly or subtly at odds with biblical Christianity…. Continue reading

The UGA Murder: An Outrageous Cascade of ‘Progressive’ Failures

“You would have no idea from reading this story that the alleged murderers in BOTH cases — the killing of Laken Riley and the killing of Mollie Tibbetts — were in the country illegally”

(Guy Benson – Townhall) The brutal on-campus murder of 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student — allegedly by an illegal immigrant with a history of arrests and criminal citations — isn’t merely a tragedy.  It’s an outrageous atrocity that could and should have been prevented.  Instead, a series of ‘progressive’ policy failures allowed this horrific crime to happen.  Based on what we know, the Venezuelan suspect came to the United States illegally in 2022, entering through the southern border amid President Biden’s border crisis…. Continue reading

We Are All Christian Nationalists Now

“Unlike most of the liberal media, both secular and faith-based, Politico accurately gives a definition of how Christian Nationalism is manifested in the United States context, as opposed to defining Christian Nationalism in a way that is exclusive to America.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Darb Web) In a recent display of their predictable liberal agenda, the mainstream media outlets have once again taken it upon themselves to sow discord and fear, this time by propagating a disingenuous narrative that a second term for President Donald Trump would be dominated by Christian Nationalists and usher in an era of Christian Nationalism. As my generation would say, “Don’t threaten me with a good time.” Continue reading