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

While Deranged Anti-Trumpers Dominate the News, The World Dumps the Dollar

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) While the world watches deranged Soros-bought DAs and AGs witch hunt for crimes to charge Donald Trump, the world is dumping the dollar. We could one day look like Venezuela with wheelbarrows of worthless cash. It was the Barack Obama dream. He wanted us to look like the rest of the world, especially the Third one.

Weaponizing SWIFT is destroying the dollar, along with our reckless monetary policies. It was predictable…. Continue reading

Fear of Rejection in the Bible

“[Jesus] did not take a poll of what was popular before he began to teach; instead, he spoke truth that was often unpopular but could penetrate the heart. “I do not receive glory from people,” he said ( John 5:41). Even his opponents could see this: “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone’s opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances” (Matt. 22:16).”

(Edward T. Walsh) It might be encouraging to know that fear of rejection has been a problem for a number of illustrious people throughout history. For example, Moses warned the leaders and judges of Israel about this very thing (Deut. 1:17). He knew that people reverence the opinions of others, show favoritism, and honor some people above others because they fear rejection from those whom they consider important. Continue reading

Pastor at Center of ‘Regrown Toes Miracle’ Announces He’s Stepping Down

(Protestia) Two weeks ago, a woman attending James River Church’s faced scrutiny and worldwide skepticism after releasing a video claiming that three of her toes that were previously amputated were miraculously regrown during a healing service Bill Johnson was speaking at. Lead pastor John Lindell co-signed the miracle, recounting, “As the ladies prayed for Krissy over the next 30 minutes, all three toes grew, and by that point, were longer than her pinky toe. Within an hour, nails began to grow on all the toes.” Continue reading

Rosaria Butterfield Publicly Repents of Using Preferred Pronouns, Urges Others to do the Same

“Butterfield…had previously advocated for the use of such pronouns, but now acknowledges that it was sinful. In a statement, she said that using transgender pronouns was a sin against the ninth commandment, the creation ordinance, and image-bearing. She also stated that it discouraged progressive sanctification, falsified the gospel, cheapened redemption, and failed to love her neighbor.”

(The Dissenter) Rosaria Butterfield has been a vocal voice over the years in Evangelicalism as she, a former practicing lesbian, has been outspoken in Christian circles about biblical sexual ethics. Butterfield made a name for herself with her book, The Gospel Comes With a House Key, which advanced the idea of inviting sinners into your home to share the gospel with them. Continue reading

Laying It On Thick: Trump to Be Charged With 34 Felonies

(Robert Spencer – PJ Media) Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has apparently decided that as long as he is going to drive us into banana republic territory, he might as well put the pedal to the metal: he is reportedly planning to charge Donald Trump with not one, but 34, felonies. He has the flimsiest of cases, but it’s clear that the Leftist elites are not buying the widespread claims that this bogus arrest will hand the White House to Trump on a platter in 2024, and have opted to go all-out. Continue reading

Trump’s Legal Team Makes Its Move Following ‘Politically Motivated’ Indictment

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Joe Tacopina, the attorney representing former President Trump, is set to announce a major development in response to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s “politically motivated” indictment against his client.

Specifically, it was reported that Tacopina planned to file a motion to dismiss all charges against Trump on Sunday.

During an interview on CNN, Joe Tacopina stated that his legal team would thoroughly examine the indictment, scrutinizing every possible issue that can be challenged. Continue reading

Guilty of Christian Nationalism?

“In America, pagan nationalism shows up in the politicization of anti-biblical morals. Common moral binaries of the past, like normative heterosexual marriage and male-female distinctions, are denied. Instead of biblical morals influencing the policies of the nation, it is anti-biblical morality that is imposed on all, as is evidenced in the coming project of the [sexual] Equality Act, that will punish all who do not adopt the LGBT agenda.”

(Peter Jones – truthxchange) The latest critics of the Christian faith accuse Christians of being selfish, out-of-date, non-constitutional “Christian nationalists” who would impose all the Christian rules on everyone around them. Think Ku Klux Klanners parading through Washington, DC in the 1920s to defend “Protestant America.”…. Continue reading

Bud Light partners with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney for March Madness: ‘This isn’t a parody’

“The announcement was met with backlash with Twitter users describing the ad campaign as another attempt to push gender propaganda.”

(Fox News) Trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney was announced as the latest spokesperson for Bud Light in a pair of videos that were attacked on social media. The trans activist revealed on Saturday that the beer company sent packs of Bud Light featuring the influencer’s face as a way to celebrate the “365 Days of Girlhood” milestone Mulvaney recently reached. Continue reading

The Sex Cult of Dionysus Is Taking Over the Nation, and Most of the Church is Silent

The recent event at the Minnesota State Capitol building, where a drag show was held for Transgender Day of Visibility, has caused outrage and controversy.

(The Dissenter) The cult of Dionysus was a Greek mystery religion centered around the worship of the god of wine, fertility, and ecstasy. This cult involved frenzied dancing, music, and sexual rituals, particularly including homosexual practices among male worshippers…. Continue reading

Okay, I’m Done, End Tolerance of Child Abusing Freaks

“Stop this disgusting behavior of psycho freaks towards children.” Watch the videos!

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) The movement to seduce children sexually at a young age is very real and clearly observable. No more excuses. It’s psychotic, and supporting this in the name of tolerance is as extreme as it gets. The Left is corrupting young children. They’re taking the innocence of childhood and destroying it. More than that, they want to mutilate their bodies and put them on powerful medications. Continue reading

Hillsong Church All Laughter and Applause as Financial Scandals Addressed

7.  Large cash payment or gifts to false teachers under the guise of honorariums. TD Jakes and Joyce Meyers are the most notorious of the recipients, each receiving hundreds of thousands. Other false teachers associated with this scheme include Pricilla Shirer, Loui Giglio, and Carl Lentz.

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Hillsong Church has faced innumerable mounting scandals from their years of excess finally coming to account. The empire built by the Houston brand is crumbling as these scandals mount. Continue reading

Feds give pass to Stanford, Harvard Med for racial discrimination favoring blacks

The bigger problem is “race-based discrimination and sex-based discrimination are so widespread and systemic in higher education that new discriminatory programs, events, scholarships, quotas … are being introduced all the time,” meaning few realize they are illegal or even consider getting “legal clearance” from campus authorities.

(Greg Piper – Just the News) Much like Stanford Law School’s refusal to sanction or even identify students who knowingly and repeatedly violated its policies against disruption of guest speakers, the federal government shrugged in response to Stanford taking no action against a student government that violated the university’s funding conditions. Continue reading

Trump Supporter Found Guilty, Faces Ten Years in Prison for 2016 Anti-Hillary Meme

Mackey’s “conspiracy” was really quite simple. While the language the Department Formerly Associated with Justice used sounds quite weighty and conjures up images of Mackey meeting in dark rooms with other sinister figures to plot ways to sabotage voting machines or prevent people from being able to enter polling places, what they’re really talking about is a meme.

(Robert Spencer – PJ Media) Donald Trump has been indicted, essentially for the crime of being Donald Trump and opposing the Left’s total hegemony over everything. But as Trump himself has often warned, they’re not really after him, they’re after us, and he is just in the way…. Continue reading

How to ‘contend for the faith’ while we take care of ourselves and others in this fight

“We should correct them once and twice, but if they persist in ungodliness and unbelief, we should have nothing more to do with them (Titus 3:10–11). We must separate from these unbelievers and not be in their midst (2 Thes 6:14–7:1). We should mark who they are and consciously avoid them (Rom 16:17–182 Tim 3:5). We should neither let them into our houses nor wish them well on their way (2 John 10–11). If they persist in their false teaching, we should even pray that God would righteously curse them forever (Gal 1:8–9).” 

(David Huffstutler) Jude’s purpose for his letter his clear: “I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).

What is “the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints,” what does it mean to “contend” for it, and why do we need to do so? Continue reading

‘Trans Day of Vengeance’ Canceled

“It is a cult. One that has massive social capital and resources. It is a cult based on a social contagion targeting the emotionally vulnerable with techniques and psychological tools that actively foster depressive mental patterns. It is a cult that makes a public suicide pact. They destroy their bodies in the pursuit of becoming the opposite gender. They change their names and pronouns and claim that if you use their given name — the one their parents gave them at birth — you are “deadnaming” them…”

(Emmy Griffin – The Patriot Post) Saturday, April 1, was intended to be April Fools’ Day the “Trans Day of Vengeance,” but the “it’ll be peaceful we swear” protests in DC were called off by the organizers due to what they claim were “credible threats” against the community. Continue reading

Rainbow Jihad Declared on Christians, Conservatives

(Protestia) In the wake of a demonic trans girl murdering six people at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, what some are calling a Rainbow Jihad against Christians has been discovered. Prominent LGBTQ groups and even powerful liberal politicians have been calling for violence against anyone who opposes their disgusting agenda. Just hours after the shooting, a high-ranking staffer in Arizona Governor Katie Hobb’s administration named Josselyn Berry tweeted a GIF of an actress holding two revolvers with the caption, “Us when we see transphobes.” Continue reading

Will You Be Next?

Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley argued that the case against Trump is so weak it “would be easily dismissed outside of a jurisdiction like New York, where Bragg can count on highly motivated judges and jurors.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) It finally happened. On Thursday, Soros-funded Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg got the indictment that so many on the political left have been pining for ever since Donald Trump ran for president in 2016. Since then, Trump has had a target on his back, with unhinged leftists desperately trying to find a crime to pin on him. Continue reading

Jan. 6 rioter ‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley secures early release from prison to halfway house

“Footage from the Capitol obtained by Fox News host Tucker Carlson shows Chansley being escorted around the building by Capitol Police officers. At one point, at least nine police officers were seen close to Chansley, and none of them slowed him down.”

(Chris Pandolfo – Fox News) Jacob Chansley, the Navy veteran and Jan. 6, 2021 rioter dubbed the “QAnon Shaman” for his infamous horned costume, has been released from prison to a halfway house, according to his lawyer. Continue reading

O’Keefe’s First Video Uncovers Massive Money Laundering Scheme Into Political Campaigns

“You’re listed as someone who’s given over 31,000 individual contributions to various causes for a total of $230,000, using your name and this address,” O’Keefe said, questioning him. “No, that’s not us,” said Mr. Riggs.

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) In James O’Keefe ‘s first video with O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), he exposes what appears to be a Democrat (Act Blue) money laundering scheme of campaign funds. He went door-to-door as himself with one of his assistants. The scheme uses the names and addresses of elderly people. Continue reading

Poll: Support for Traditional American Values, Patriotism Declines

(Katherine Hamilton – Breitbart) The percentage of Americans who say patriotism, religious faith, family, and other traditional American values are “very important” is on the decline, a Wall Street Journal-NORC poll found.

Support for every traditional American value included in the poll has receded since 1998 besides “money,” which has grown in importance. The data also shows young people and Democrats tend not to highly rank traditional American values as much as older adults and Republicans. Continue reading

‘The Chosen’ Sets Former DreamWorks Exec Mark Sourian As President Of Production, Will Serve As Foundation For Bible-Based Entertainment Universe

“Right away, I could tell that there was a real emotional connection that Dallas [Jenkins] had to the material. And the more that I got to know Dallas and the more that he talked rather secularly, frankly, about the show, referencing shows like The Wire and West Wing, that really intrigued me in terms of making me feel like, ‘Wow. Really, truly, this is a guy who has a vision, and this is a show that is an elevated show, and a show that isn’t trying to proselytize, and is something different than what’s been out there before.” 

(Mark Sourian – Deadline) The largest fan-supported entertainment project of all time, Dallas Jenkins’ The Chosen is an episodic drama series about the life of Jesus Christ (Jonathan Roumie) and the calling of his initial disciples. The crowdfunded show available via Angel Studios’ website and app, as well as its own dedicated app, has been translated into more than 50 languages, garnering over 510M views across 175 countries…. Continue reading

Julie Roys Promotes Transgenderism, Apologizes For ‘Mislabeling’ Nashville Shooter

“There is no such thing as a transgender man, as transgender is not a category of man. Nor is transgender a category of woman. Interestingly enough, many in conservative media accurately improved their reporting by stating that Audrey Hale was “a woman who identified as transgender.” Yet this consistency ought to be maintained.”

(Ray Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) No issue quite reveals the inadequacy of modern journalism quite like that of transgenderism. Despite the logical inconsistencies of the ideology. You can tell how reliable an outlet is based on this issue. And very few major outlets outside the mainstream media are good on this issue…. Continue reading

DOJ Asked to Investigate Murder of 6 Christians in Nashville as a Hate Crime – Garland Responds

(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) believes the horrific murder of six people, including three children, in a Christian school, was a hate crime based partly on the targets chosen by the transperson who slaughtered them. According to the police, these Christian people were specifically targeted.

The DOJ has investigated so-called hate crimes with much less evidence and even contradictory evidence, such as in the case of Michael Brown. Continue reading

The Winner’s Chapel and The King’s College

MinistryWatch’s Warren Cole Smith’s comments on one or more stories in the week’s news.

Prosperity Gospel on Steroids.  I started hearing about David Oyedepo a few years ago, as I was doing research for a trip to Liberia to cover the Ebola crisis. He founded a church in Nigeria in 1981 that has come to be called The Winner’s Chapel.  It is now in about 150 countries and claims 6 million members. At least 30 U.S. cities now have Winner’s Chapel churches. Continue reading

NHL may cancel LGBT ‘Pride’ nights as growing number of players refuse to wear rainbow gear

“Other players have taken similar actions for their religious beliefs such as Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov and San Jose Sharks goalie James Reimer. After refusing to wear the Pride jersey, Provorov jerseys immediately sold out online.”

(Post Millennial) In response to an increasing number of players engaging in silent protests against the NHL’s Pride Nights, a new report  claims the league is re-evaluating the events which may lead to them being canceled. Continue reading