EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Other Child" on Sunday, July 5, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Between Jesus and each one of us, God has blessed the undeserving child and cursed the Son who was preferable in every way.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "A Savior and a Son" on Sunday, June 28, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: In the kingdom of God, our “Joseph” provides both for our lives in this world and for our eternal future with him.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Few and Evil" on Sunday, June 21, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: At the end of a life that had been short and difficult, Jesus stood before a king not to retire comfortably, but to die so that we could enjoy his inheritance.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Seeking God's Will" on Sunday, June 14, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: God’s will was to forsake his own Son so that we can be restored to him as long-estranged children to our Father.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Sharing the Gospel" on Sunday, June 7, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The Son you thought was dead is alive, the King wants you to come live with him, and everything you thought was bad and unfair and tragic turns out to have been working for your good all along.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Apocalyptic Joy" on Sunday, May 31, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Apocalyptic joy is the certainty that everything is going to be OK because of what Jesus has done.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Judah's finest hour" on Sunday, May 24, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the brother who takes sacrificial responsibility for his family and brings us all home to the Father in the end.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Pleading your guilt" on Sunday, May 17, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the innocent Son who declines to defend himself so that his guilty brothers can go free.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The paranoia of unbelief" on Sunday, May 10, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The only one who can negotiate peace in the family of God is the Son who was cut off from the presence of his Father.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Unrecognized Savior" on Sunday, May 3, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus saw us for who we were long before we recognized him—and he used his advantage to save us when we weren’t looking for salvation.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The trial of success" on Sunday, April 26, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: When it looked like things couldn’t possibly get any worse for us, God unsealed the infinite riches of his grace in Jesus, and the life is still flowing for the whole world from that source.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The royal interview" on Sunday, April 19, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: God’s answer to the nightmare of our sin was to swallow up death.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The forgotten servant" on Sunday, April 12, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the innocent man who serves the guilty, interpreting God’s purposes once and for all by dying on the cross for our sins.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "One Wild and Precious Life" on Sunday, April 5, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The only way to make your wild and precious life last forever is to hide it in the One who died for you and yet lives.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The faithful servant" on Sunday, March 29, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: In the face of temptation, the surest form of resistance is a stronger love.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Desperate Measures" on Sunday, March 22, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The cross is an act of redemption so drastic that it’s indecent—but it’s the only thing drastic enough to bring sinners to the recognition of our moral bankruptcy.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Selling the Obedient Son" on Sunday, March 15, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Beholding Christ’s obedience for us is what gives us the joy to obey when God asks difficult things.

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Read the room, Joseph" on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the Son who was adored by his Father, despised by his brothers, and destined to save the entire family of faith.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Tried and True" on Sunday, March 1, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The glib, superficial agreement we give to idea that God is good has to mature into real, tested faith—or else we will go on mistaking pleasant circumstances for God’s blessings forever.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Grace for going out and coming in" on Sunday, February 22, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Not only is there no shame in retracing your steps—this is how God has designed the life of faith.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Religious malpractice" on Sunday, February 15, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Evangelism isn’t just “presenting the ABCs of salvation,” it’s how we communicate who Jesus is and what we think he’s doing in us and in our world. Misrepresenting him is a form of spiritual abuse against people who don'...

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Where grace meets guilt" on Sunday, February 8, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus already paid for your sin so that your homecoming can be sheer and unlimited joy.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Limping toward home" on Sunday, February 1, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: To be a Christian is to limp in one very specific way—it means publicly confessing, “I can’t save myself.”

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "God and the nations" on Sunday, January 25, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: When the church gathers in worship, the heavens can hear us singing, and what they’re hearing is the sound of the nations exalting the one True and Eternal King.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "A God of Justice" on Sunday, January 18, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The cross satisfied justice in heaven and on earth—in heaven by overthrowing the divine council, on earth by atoning for human sin once and for all.