EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Series: WHAT JESUS WANTS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The future that Jesus wants" on Sunday, January 21, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Whenever and wherever people are believing the gospel, trusting in the salvation of Jesus and his righteousness, we are as “perfectly one” as it is possible to be this side of heaven.

Series: WHAT JESUS WANTS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The witness that Jesus wants" on Sunday, January 14, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The message of the gospel is what separates the people of God from the “natives” of this world and protects us from deception at the same time.

Series: WHAT JESUS WANTS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The unity that Jesus wants" on Sunday, January 7, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California The Big Idea: All of our most painful division in the church is the direct result of someone betraying Jesus by rejecting the gospel.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Bear fruit or bust" on Sunday, December 31, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: God will forgive all your sin if you want him to, but he won’t play games with your religious pride.

Series: BEGINNINGS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Behold the Son of Man" as a special Christmas Eve message at Emmanuel Baptist on Sunday, December 24, 2023.

Series: BEGINNINGS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Full-term faith" on Sunday, December 24, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Talk is cheap, so God will put us in situations where we have to act out our faith in order to know what’s real to our own hearts.

Series: BEGINNINGS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The messianic baby shower" on Sunday, December 17, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The story of what God has done for us personally is part of the story of his faithfulness from age to age—and we need to rehearse both parts of it constantly. This is what it means to worship the Lord.

Series: BEGINNINGS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "A terribly wonderful favor" on Sunday, December 10, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Salvation does not enter the world through sinless servants, but through willing servants and a sinless King.

Series: BEGINNINGS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The beginning of the end" on Sunday, December 3, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The gospel is easy to admire in theory but often messy and always disruptive when it comes to bear on our real lives.

Series: WHAT JESUS WANTS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The revelation that Jesus wants" on Sunday, November 19, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Disciples are those who have seen the name of God, kept the word of God, and believed in Jesus as the Son of God.

Series: WHAT JESUS WANTS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The status that Jesus wants" on November 12, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: God was on the cross, a man is on the throne, and this changes everything.

Series: WHAT JESUS WANTS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The life that Jesus wants" on November 5, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Really knowing God as who he is and in the way he has provided brings true, deep and never-ending life.

Series: WHAT JESUS WANTS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The glory that Jesus wants" on October 29, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus was lifted up to glorify the Father by finishing the mission to bring eternal life to sinners.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Whose love? What peace?" on October 22, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus has overcome the world by bringing the love of God down to us in the most immediate and convincing way.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Now you see me" on October 15, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Joy is not something God gives , it’s something that he is. He gives himself to us in the person of Jesus Christ, and in receiving Christ we have joy. There is no other source of lasting joy in this universe except Jesus.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The work of the Spirit" on October 8, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The Spirit convicts the world and helps believers by glorifying Jesus.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Good, upstanding citizens" on October 1, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: People who believe Jesus bled for them don’t seek to kill or even defeat their enemies, but to win their hearts.

Series: MERIBAH Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The case against God" on September 24, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The gospel is not only the dry path through deep waters, it’s also the water we need in the dry places of life. Our God provides both.

Series: MERIBAH Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Water from the heart" on September 17, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus turns the sinner’s dead heart of stone into a spring of life.

Series: MERIBAH Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Lest we forget" on September 10, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: "Hardening your heart" means turning away from the gospel or leaving it behind in search of more “immediate” saviors.

Series: MERIBAH Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Old Moses and the Rock" on September 3, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Obedience is important because every opportunity to obey God is a chance to rehearse the gospel.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Organic and locally grown" on Sunday, August 13, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Bearing fruit means doing what Jesus would do if he were here.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Minding the gospel" on August 6, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The Holy Spirit reminds us of the gospel, which is our peace, so that when suffering comes we will remember that the worst is over.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Never alone" on July 30, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Christ’s people obey him because we are captivated by his beauty and grace, which is seen most vividly in what he’s done for us.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Asking for more" on July 23, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: There is nothing Jesus is unwilling to give you if your heart is fixed on him. In other words, when what you want from God is what God wants to give you, nothing you ask of him will be denied.