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

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

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

Written: February 16, 2025 We’ve received a fair amount of feedback from pastors and lay people across Canada, and other places, concerning our reports on pastor or " Führer" Michael Sullivant and Pembina Valley Baptist Church (PVBC), Part 1a , Part 1b and Part 2 , especially after sending out the reports to majority of IFB pastors and leaders across Canada. (Side note: The Report isn't finalized as of yet; there is at least a third part in the making, soon to be released)