EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Series: "SPARE ME" Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Death on opening day" on Sunday, July 28, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: There is only one holy sacrifice, and it’s Jesus. “Unauthorized fire” is anything other than Christ that we put on the altar and say, “Here, God, accept this.”

Series: "SPARE ME" Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Blood brothers" on Sunday, July 21, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Although Abel was murdered, he still has something to say to us (Heb. 11:4). How so? Someday there would be a brother who would offer his own innocent life to the Lord and be personally rejected (like Cain) even as his sac...

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Living in a material world" on Sunday, July 14, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The man on the cross is the one who is not thinking of his own physical life, but is willing to die for us to get what we need.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Bad publicity" on Sunday, July 7, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: When you are tempted to hide your faith because it would cost you to be seen as a disciple of Jesus, that’s when it’s time to let it shine. When you are tempted to put your faith on display because it would benefit you to be seen and admired, that’s whe...

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Bold as a lion" on Sunday, June 30, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: “Fear not” means “believe the gospel,” which tells us that our Lion has taken away the source of all our fears and troubles.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Too good for Jesus" on Sunday, June 23, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The only sinners who are beyond Christ’s call are the self-righteous, those who are trying so hard to be good people that they’re offended by grace.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Dirt poor and filthy rich" on Sunday, June 16, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The Christian identity combines humiliation and dignity, which makes the gospel more difficult to accept for the "rich" in this world.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "New life in old skin" on Sunday, June 9, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the new wine who burst the old wineskin of death so that his life now flows freely to everyone who comes to the wedding feast.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Righteousness Question" on Sunday, June 2, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Righteousness has nothing to do with the sin we avoid or the good works we practice, but with the perfect record we receive from Jesus.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "A hearty love for the world" on Sunday, May 26, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The right way to “love the world” is with the same self-giving, redemptive love that was poured out in Jesus.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Can you hear me now?" on Sunday, May 19, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: In Jesus, God hears and answers the deepest longings of our hearts.

Series: MORE LIFE Pastor Tom Pfingsten wrapped up the Gospel of John by preaching "Faith in the Information Age" on Sunday, May 12, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus expects you to be joyful, not sensational or even dutiful. God is glorified when you live your ordinary life in the joy of Christ’s salvation.

Series: MORE LIFE Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Shameless love" on Sunday, May 5, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Love that cannot be earned is love that cannot be lost because it depends entirely on the resolve of the lover and not the quality of the beloved.

Series: MORE LIFE Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Teach a man to fish" on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus fills the toilsome nights and empty waters of this old world with more life than our little vessels can hold—and that life is our first taste of the New Creation.

Series: MORE LIFE Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Grace for slow believers" on Sunday, April 14, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Faith means not only knowing that Jesus was crucified and rose again, but recognizing he did it for you.

Series: MORE LIFE Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Shalom, y'all!" on Sunday, April 7, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: There is no greater peace in this life than to be forgiven by God. This is what every sinner, at some level, is longing to know: Are my sins forgiven?

Series: MORE LIFE The Big Idea: You’ll never find Jesus if you’re looking for a dead man, an inanimate object, a disembodied truth, or an impersonal solution to your problems. Those are all things you might find lying around. But Jesus is found by the sound of his voice, and your name on his lips, and the sudden recognition that he is alive and giving himself to you.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB The Big Idea: To bear witness to the gospel means confessing the violent sacrifice of Jesus as central to your identity as a human being.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB The Big Idea: Sinners are unresolved stories in search of resolution. Your entire life will make sense in a way that you never could have imagined when you see Jesus and he says, “You are finished. You are complete. You are my work that was finished that day. Enter into my rest.”

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB The Big Idea: When Jesus speaks to us about our relationships, he speaks from the cross—with the personal authority of someone who has paid for us with his life.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB The Big Idea: When the One who is Life climbed onto the dead tree in the place of death and died, he reopened the way to the tree of life. When he made that cross our tree of life, he was telling us, “Reach out your hand, take of this tree of life, and eat, and live forever.”

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB The Big Idea: Sin is not just a violation of commandments. It is the vandalism against God’s image that Jesus came to undo. Every sinner is a humiliating parody of what he was created to be—and it’s only by believing in Jesus that you can be truly and eternally restored.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB The Big Idea: Unbelief takes two forms — hostility toward Jesus and indifference to his message. Hostility when Jesus interferes with your worship and indifference when you simply don’t have any use for him. We are saved because God is not willing to be either hostile or indifferent toward us.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Lamb tried and denied" on Sunday, February 11, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The most difficult test of faith is when Jesus rejects your conditions and your mistaken hopes. It leaves you cold, it shakes the foundation—but on the other side of this test is true contentment with what Je...

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Lamb in custody" on Sunday, January 28, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Never was a person so free as Jesus of Nazareth, yet he was willing to be betrayed, seized, bound, and handed off like a criminal so that you and I can know real freedom.