EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The most important thing" on Sunday, September 14, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Political violence is a counterfeit of the one thing that really is saving the world, which is the innocent blood of Jesus.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Sons and servants" on Sunday, September 7, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: A good servant represents his master accurately, takes his mission personally, and succeeds not primarily by trying but by believing.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Show your receipts" on Sunday, August 31, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Gravesite ownership is a thread you can follow all the way to the end of the story of Israel: 2,000 years after Sarah was buried in a cave that her husband went to such great lengths to buy, one of her descendants would be laid i...

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Be selfish for others" on Sunday, August 24, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The sacrifice you receive is what makes it possible to act sacrificially when the time comes.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Sons and slaves" on Sunday, August 3, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the heir of heaven who was rejected and sent away, not to be rescued, but to die so that we would receive his inheritance.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Miracle baby" on Sunday, July 27, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: God is true to his word, his timing, and his own glory.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Father figures" on Sunday, July 20, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Christ’s death is both a profession of love and a moment of pure honesty.

Series: FATHERS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Don't look back" on Sunday, July 13, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Christ takes every tragedy in Gen. 19 on himself and gives it a happy ending for us.

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.