EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "God and the gods" on Sunday, January 11, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: There are multitudes of elohim , but only one YHWH—that’s what “God Most High” means.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "What do you want?" on Sunday, January 4, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The Son of God was discontent on our behalf before we had the sense to know what we really wanted. He came that we may have life, and have it abundantly.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The God with a genealogy" on Sunday, December 28, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the promised Son, fully divine and fully human, who was sent to give us the chance to become sons and daughters of God.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Son of God" on Sunday, December 21, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus must be your personal Savior, and once he is that, then you must learn how grand the story of salvation really is.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The gift of salvation" on Sunday, December 14, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the free gift that opens the way for offerings that God truly enjoys—not as obligations, but as moments of delight with his children.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "God is watching" on Sunday, December 7, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The cross marks the place where true guilty meets true innocence, innocence suffers, blood is shed, Jesus becomes our city of refuge, and we know God is watching—not to search for guilt, but to create life.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Safe in the household of God" on Sunday, November 30, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: All our lives we search and search for that thing that will satisfy our hearts, but Jesus is the God who came looking for you.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The blemished flock" on Sunday, November 23, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the spotless Lamb whose life is traded for the blemished ones, the creatures hopelessly marked by our sin.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The only cure" on Sunday, November 16, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: There is only one cure for what ails us, and it’s Jesus.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Bear fruit or die" at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California on Sunday, November 9, 2025. The Big Idea: Jesus can tell us to “bear fruit or die” because he died so we would bear fruit—not by striving, like the sister-wives of Jacob, but as naturally as telling a story.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The unwanted sister" on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus didn’t just work to have his bride, he died to have her—and he chose the unlovely one.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The real stairway to heaven" on Sunday, October 26, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus turns spiritual rocks like you and me into his personal temples, anointed with the “oil” of the Holy Spirit.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Grace in disguise" on Sunday, October 19, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is God wearing the disguise of humanity—but Jesus didn’t wear his disguise to take a blessing for himself. He wore it to give himself away as a blessing to the whole world.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "I dig you" on Sunday, October 12, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus does all of the work and gives you the living water—he digs the well and says, “The water is yours.”

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Public display of affection" on Sunday, October 5, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Isaac was deceptive about his love—he hid it, he kept it private, he tried not let anyone see how much he loved Rebekah—and he was rewarded with the protection of a pagan king. But Jesus refused to hide or disguise his l...

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Loving your birthright" on Sunday, September 28, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the brother who willingly transfers his birthright to undeserving, indifferent people.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Who is the main character of your story?" on Sunday, September 21, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus knew all along that his purpose was to suffer, and instead of saying, “Why?” he said, “Your will be done.”

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The most important thing" on Sunday, September 14, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Political violence is a counterfeit of the one thing that really is saving the world, which is the innocent blood of Jesus.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Sons and servants" on Sunday, September 7, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: A good servant represents his master accurately, takes his mission personally, and succeeds not primarily by trying but by believing.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Show your receipts" on Sunday, August 31, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Gravesite ownership is a thread you can follow all the way to the end of the story of Israel: 2,000 years after Sarah was buried in a cave that her husband went to such great lengths to buy, one of her descendants would be laid i...

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Be selfish for others" on Sunday, August 24, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The sacrifice you receive is what makes it possible to act sacrificially when the time comes.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Sons and slaves" on Sunday, August 3, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the heir of heaven who was rejected and sent away, not to be rescued, but to die so that we would receive his inheritance.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Miracle baby" on Sunday, July 27, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: God is true to his word, his timing, and his own glory.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Father figures" on Sunday, July 20, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Christ’s death is both a profession of love and a moment of pure honesty.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Don't look back" on Sunday, July 13, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Christ takes every tragedy in Gen. 19 on himself and gives it a happy ending for us.