EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Bargaining with God" on Sunday, July 6, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: God has fully revealed himself to us in Christ so that we would respond wholeheartedly to him.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Heart hospitality" on Sunday, June 29, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: God visited Abraham and found a warm welcome. Jesus visited us and we crucified him. He came to this world knowing he would be unwelcome in order to make room in his Kingdom for you.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Sign of the covenant" on Sunday, June 22, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The scars of Jesus and the cross where he died are the strongest evidence you have of God’s forgiveness and acceptance. Those scars are telling you that you are part of a covenant that has been made in Christ’s flesh.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The God who pays attention" on Sunday, June 15, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Is there someone who has ever held our fate in his hands and chosen to obey God instead of let us down? Jesus was the one who never said, “I’ll do it my way” — but instead, when he was in the crisis of his life, prayed, “No...

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Father of faith" on Sunday, June 8, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus walked the sacrificial road and was severed from his Father under thick darkness to enact a new and eternal covenant.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Loving the promises of God" on Sunday, June 1, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: True faith is determined to be enriched by Christ or not at all.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Going away from the gospel" on Sunday, May 25, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: We can’t have any boundaries with God and expect to enjoy his blessings. In Christ, God dissolved every boundary so you can live your whole life connected to him.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Cultural enrichment" on Sunday, May 18, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the husband who gladly lost everything and died to have his bride.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Hit the road" on Sunday, May 11, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the Son who left his Father knowing that it would cost him everything.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Under construction" on Sunday, May 4 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the connection between heaven and earth that God initiates—the tower that he builds—the reopened way into God’s presence and a life that truly matters.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Divided Nations" on Sunday, April 28, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: In Christ, the nations of the world finally come together in peace and harmony, like the long-lost siblings that we are.

Series: COMMUNION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The only stranger in Jerusalem" on Sunday, April 20, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Communion anchors us to the fact that Jesus is a real King with a real human body and a real Kingdom that is coming into this world and that, through his Spirit, he is really here right now.

Series: COMMUNION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "A meal for the ages" on Sunday, April 13, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: In the past and in the future, bread and wine preaches the good news about a Savior who gives his body and blood to redeem his people.

Series: COMMUNION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Cup of the Covenant" on Sunday, April 6, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The blood of Jesus seals those who drink from his cup in an unbreakable covenant that depends not on our ability to obey, but on his perfect sacrifice.

Series: COMMUNION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Bread of Life" on Sunday, March 30, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. Texts: Genesis 3:19, Exodus 16:13–15, John 6:48–51 The Big Idea: The body of Jesus is a new kind of nourishment that imparts eternal life to all who feed on him in faith.

Series: FLOOD Sam Harrell preached "The Naked Savior" on Sunday, March 23, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The crime of being found out" on Sunday, March 16, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Your life is going to be “leavened” with someone’s righteousness — either your own or Christ’s.

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The colors of grace" on Sunday, March 9, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: When the blood of God is shed by man, then we will know that a new covenant is in effect. The cross is the sign that God’s new way of dealing with sin depends on only one death—the death of his Son.

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "God's green earth" on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Noah offered a sacrifice and God said, “This is good, but I know people are still hopelessly sinful.” Jesus offered himself as a sacrifice and God said, “This changes everything.”

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "God's selective memory" on Sunday, February 23, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: When our sins rose higher than the mountains, Jesus was the one who was forgotten so that we could stand on the firm ground of God’s love.

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "For dear life" on Sunday, February 16, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the end times ark and salvation means “getting in” — hiding your life in him through the high waters of history and judgment until the earth is renewed.

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "All that God commanded" on Sunday, February 9, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: There was another man like Noah, who did all that God commanded and saved the world by his obedience. Only his ark is big enough for everyone, his covenant is as wide as the whole human family, and because of him the world is...

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "A flood of grace" on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: In the flood, Noah was the only man who was saved while everyone else died. Jesus is the only one who dies so that everyone else can be saved.

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Naming the gospel" on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: When you believe the gospel, your name goes on the end of this long list of names, and you take your place in the genealogy of God’s people.

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "All in the family" on Sunday, January 19, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: If you have to boast at all, boast in this: You have been loved more than you could have hoped, far better than you deserve.