EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "My brother's blood" on Sunday, January 12, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the older brother who “keeps” us with his innocent blood.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Bearing fruit in 2025" on Sunday, January 5, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: To abide means living your whole life connected to Jesus.

Series: FALL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Out of Eden" on Sunday, December 29, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus was stripped and disowned and shut out from the presence of the Father so that we could be brought back in as children.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Breakthrough" on Christmas Eve, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Enchantment means seeing this world as it really is: the physical theater for a spiritual drama in which every human soul has a part.

Series: FALL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "King of the Curse" on Sunday, December 22, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus took our curse to give his people unending life in a perfect world.

Series: FALL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Answering for our sin" on Sunday, December 15, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The only thing that makes it bearable to stand exposed in the presence of God and be questioned about our sin is knowing that Jesus already answered for us.

Series: FALL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Does your God hold out on you?" on Sunday, December 8, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: On the cross, God took his love away from Jesus and gave it to us. He held out on Jesus, he caused Jesus to “know evil,” he cast him out of the Inner Ring so that we could finally come in, so that we could receive all that was Ch...

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Gospel romance" on Sunday, December 1, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus Christ is a married man, and the church is his bride who, like Eve, was formed from his body.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Dying to eat" on Sunday, November 24, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: God planted a tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden because it was the only way to show his sacrificial love.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "More than dust" on Sunday, November 17, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Every human being is a spark of heaven-and-earth life of incalculable value and significance.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The goal of creation" on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. A restful heart is the inevitable result of believing that Jesus worked himself to death for you.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Hard Love" on Sunday, November 3, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Enemy-love is impossible to give away unless you have received it first. If you can’t love other people when they are unlovable, it’s because you have not yet fully embraced the fact that this is how God loves you.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Creative Day" on Sunday, October 27, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Every day is a new beginning with God.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Creative Calling" on Sunday, October 20, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: In Christ, God gives us new life and with it new meaning, new purpose, new significance—that’s what it means to receive a new name from the Lord.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Creative Reunion" on Sunday, October 13, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: At the cross, God says, “Let my Son be separated from me so that these rebels and sinners might return to me as their Father.”

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Creative Joy" on Sunday, October 6, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Being a new creation means becoming the “good” and “very good” home for God that was his original goal of creation in the beginning.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Creative Power" on Sunday, September 29, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: “It is finished” is the ultimate “it was so” to all of God’s promises: the work is complete, salvation is assured, and glory is a foregone conclusion.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Creative Command" on Sunday, September 22, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: God is more patient, more hopeful, and more joyful about what he is doing in our lives than we are.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Creative Word" on Sunday, September 15, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The gospel is the creative word that awakens the chaotic deep of our sinful hearts.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Creative Pattern" on Sunday, September 8, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Every saved sinner is a new masterpiece of God’s creative vision. Whatever your darkness or your chaos, God can work with it—and he is the master artist who never fails to achieve perfection in his work.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The real universe" on Sunday, September 1, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Everything in the universe means something because the universe includes a “heavens” and an “earth.” What Jesus did on the cross means that the heavens and the earth will again be one. He is reuniting heavens and earth .

Series: "SPARE ME" Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Gospel wreckage" on Sunday, August 25, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The cross is so real, so powerful, and so effective in giving life that it will destroy anything you try to build on a different foundation. In other words, God himself deconstructs everything in us that’s not founded o...

Series: "SPARE ME" Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "All and nothing" on Sunday, August 18, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: There is nothing outside of yourself that you could bring to God that would impress or appease him, nothing you can give that will keep you in relationship with him. There is nothing inside of yourself that you can with...

Series: "SPARE ME" Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Coming clean" on Sunday, August 11, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Only after you are cleansed by the blood of Jesus will you have anything to offer that God actually wants. And nothing you offer apart from faith in Jesus will be accepted even after you’re saved. Because what God really w...

Series: "SPARE ME" Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Starting over again" on Sunday, August 4, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The cross is the sacrifice God invites you to come back to over and over again, as often as you need to, as often as you think of it, until the day you leave this world.