EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Series: MEANT FOR EVIL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Read the room, Joseph" on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the Son who was adored by his Father, despised by his brothers, and destined to save the entire family of faith.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Tried and True" on Sunday, March 1, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The glib, superficial agreement we give to idea that God is good has to mature into real, tested faith—or else we will go on mistaking pleasant circumstances for God’s blessings forever.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Grace for going out and coming in" on Sunday, February 22, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Not only is there no shame in retracing your steps—this is how God has designed the life of faith.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Religious malpractice" on Sunday, February 15, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Evangelism isn’t just “presenting the ABCs of salvation,” it’s how we communicate who Jesus is and what we think he’s doing in us and in our world. Misrepresenting him is a form of spiritual abuse against people who don'...

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Where grace meets guilt" on Sunday, February 8, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus already paid for your sin so that your homecoming can be sheer and unlimited joy.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Limping toward home" on Sunday, February 1, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: To be a Christian is to limp in one very specific way—it means publicly confessing, “I can’t save myself.”

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "God and the nations" on Sunday, January 25, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: When the church gathers in worship, the heavens can hear us singing, and what they’re hearing is the sound of the nations exalting the one True and Eternal King.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "A God of Justice" on Sunday, January 18, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The cross satisfied justice in heaven and on earth—in heaven by overthrowing the divine council, on earth by atoning for human sin once and for all.

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.”