Paul "El" Chappell is the pastor and top dog of the Lancaster Baptist Church (LBC) and the West Coast Baptist College (WCBC) in Lancaster, CA. El Chapell (as he will be called from hereon, "El Chappell" to parallel the cartel leader and ruthless villian El Chapo, "El" as in "the") of the West Coast Cartel has been a massive influencer of Independent Baptist policy and procedure over the last two decades, especially through his spiritual leadership conferences, helping turn ma

Part 1 The Biblical Evidence of True Salvation, Conveying Assurance of Salvation Perversion of the assurance of salvation is extemely common today, many times dovetailing with a perverted gospel and heretical Keswick/Higher Life theology (and other serious errors) that many of the same have embraced. Among the IFB, Rick Flanders of revivalism notability is an example, as is John Van Gelderen, and Baptist College of Ministry , who rejects 1 John as an epistle teaching the evi

Christendom runs at about 2+ billion people throughout the world. There are many diverse groups, sects, beliefs within that mixture, majority embracing peculiar anomalies of Christianity and dead religion, false gospels running rampant throughout mostly all, with very, very few exceptions. Among the groups that would profess to believe in a Biblical gospel, a large percentage purvey errors on salvation itself and the assurance of salvation, and few churches teach the truth of

In our humble opinion, there are few doctrines so obvious and crystal clear in Scripture as that of the Millennial Kingdom of God, which is the 1,000 year reign of Jesus Christ as King over the earth while upon the earth at His second coming immediately proceeding the seven year Great Tribulation, also known as the 70th Week of Daniel and the Time of Jacob's (Israel's) Trouble. Yet, many professing Christians and groups reject this obvious truth. Why? Amillennialism and Post

John R. Rice is a household name in fundamentalism, substantially growing the independent fundamental baptist (IFB) churches in America and subsequently worldwide during the 1950's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. The "evangelist" Rice laid the foundation for the advent of the IFB mega-churches in the '70s, while mocking “ bland, self-assured 'Bible teachers' preaching to little groups of saints, ” and lumping “ doctrinally sound sermons ” with “ entertaining sermons ” that were “ devo

Does the Bible give latitude on the plan of salvation? Is there any hint that some variety is acceptable within permissible boundaries? There is only one Bible and one plan of salvation. God is very clear on that. How did we get to where there is the present degree of difference between those who might generally identify with one another? We must get the gospel/salvation right. I don't believe there is a more critical subject today. If there is, I don't know what it is. Nothi

Paul's warning to the Ephesian churches is maybe more pertinent today than ever: “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. ” (Ac 20:28-29) There will be false teachers operating among the Lord’s churches (Ac 20:28-29; Matt 7:15) a

Enclosed is the final chapter of the fourth and final segment on the expose of Michael Sullivant and PVBC, and this one goes into another area outside of doctrine and Scripture perversion, where we move from false teacher to autocratic tyrant. We will cover this one subject followed by a summary: Sullivant’s Man-Centredness, Duplicity, Ruling Over the Flock Like a Lord and Tyrant , and Pastoral Disqualifying Actions, and Conclusion to The Sullivant Report Here are Part 1a ,

Part 3 of 4 — This was meant to be the final report on Michael Sullivant and Pembina Valley Baptist Church, but due to its volume, we decided to split it and include a fourth part to effectively cover everything as planned, and cut back on length of the individual reports. Here we set to cover the following: Sullivant, and PVBC Staff, Teach Other False Doctrine and Practice Hypocrisy. Sullivant’s Corruption and Twisting of Scripture. Sullivant’s Unscriptural Associations. Par

As much as we appreciate David Cloud’s Way of Life ministry, especially his bold warnings on every sort of error from any camp, compromiser, heretic and apostate, whether it be “evangelicalism,” ecumenicalism, false teachers, ungodly “Christian” music such as CCM or “Christian” rock, other worldly music, Bible perversions, and the horrible compromise amongst the Independent Baptists many of which have gone heretical and apostate, etc, and we could go on and on, Cloud is not o

Just over a month ago a courageous man with good and noble intentions, a loving husband and father was gunned down in cold blood by an evil, cowardly, leftist, woke and utterly reprobate beast (cf. Rom 1:28-32 ). Few spheres of the world were untouched by this tragic event, of the slaying of Charlie Kirk, the founder and president of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a man with more courage then 99% of so-called "pastors" today. His value and appreciation by the Republican party as

We often get charged with creating "division" or "dividing." We don’t deny it. It is precisely the point — we are dividing truth from error, the true from the false, the good from the evil, the righteous from the unrighteous, but this is obviously not what they mean when they bring that accusation. There is a blurring and a blending occurring in our apostate day, but there is a desperate need for some clear divisions, and that is what we are trying to help create. Loving the

For some time now we have desired to write an expose of Nancy Leigh DeMoss Wolgemuth, a very popular and big Eva Bible teacher amongst (mostly) evangelicals, a public speaker, author and the founder of Revive Our Hearts ministry for women. With her upcoming True Women 2025 conference this week, what better time than this. We find it quite amusing that many people who allegedly take a stance against Calvinism, attend these conferences which are loaded with reformed calvinisti

In May of 2025 the King James Bible Research Council (KJBRC) delivered a Conference on the King James Bible at Pembina Valley Baptist Church in Winkler, Manitoba, Canada, pastored by Michael Sullivant. Notwithstanding other issues, the two that stand out and demand exposure are the false gospel and distorted doctrine of preservation. Though we appreciate any true defence of the King James Bible, it really pales in comparison to the glorious gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jes

Part 1 focused on the editors of Sword of the Lord (SOTL) with an honorary mention of a few others associated with the organization. This second part is about exposing Tom Wallace, an old-time SOTL preacher, who at one time was vice-president at SOTL . Tom Wallace, an Original SOTL Preacher Still Preaching Tom Wallace is a SOTL guy, 100%, one of the last remaining mega-IFB preachers of the 1970's. He was also 100% for Jack Hyles, which should tell you everything about him

Updated: July 5, 2025 John R. Rice started the Sword of the Lord ( SOTL ) on Sept 28, 1934 while pastoring Fundamentalist Baptist Church of Dallas, TX (later called Galilean Baptist). Though SOTL has existed predominantly as an Independent Baptist publishing ministry, distributing a bi-monthly 24 page newspaper (peaking at 300,000 in 1975), while holding campaigns and conferences across North America and around the world, it has never been governed as a ministry of a local

Not many churches or Christian groups today require their female members to wear a head covering (kerchief) for worship or for continual...

It is revolting and cringey to see professing Christians boasting of the “great” deeds they perform to their fellow man, whether it be...

Hebrews 3:6-4:11 is a very popular passage of Scripture utilized to advance the heresies of revivalism, Keswick theology, deeper life,...

Cyrus Ingerson (C.I.) Scofield (1843–1921) was a Civil War veteran, U.S. state attorney, Kansas legislator, and influential American congregational minister . He was also a charlatan, a convicted criminal and a rogue. He was born into a mainline Anglican, or Episcopalian, a home of seven children, in the state of Michigan. But what C.I. Scofield is mostly known for is his authorship of the study Bible that bears his name: the infamous Scofield Reference Bible , which became