EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The colors of grace" on Sunday, March 9, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: When the blood of God is shed by man, then we will know that a new covenant is in effect. The cross is the sign that God’s new way of dealing with sin depends on only one death—the death of his Son.

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "God's green earth" on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Noah offered a sacrifice and God said, “This is good, but I know people are still hopelessly sinful.” Jesus offered himself as a sacrifice and God said, “This changes everything.”

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "God's selective memory" on Sunday, February 23, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: When our sins rose higher than the mountains, Jesus was the one who was forgotten so that we could stand on the firm ground of God’s love.

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "For dear life" on Sunday, February 16, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is the end times ark and salvation means “getting in” — hiding your life in him through the high waters of history and judgment until the earth is renewed.

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "All that God commanded" on Sunday, February 9, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: There was another man like Noah, who did all that God commanded and saved the world by his obedience. Only his ark is big enough for everyone, his covenant is as wide as the whole human family, and because of him the world is...

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "A flood of grace" on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: In the flood, Noah was the only man who was saved while everyone else died. Jesus is the only one who dies so that everyone else can be saved.

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Naming the gospel" on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: When you believe the gospel, your name goes on the end of this long list of names, and you take your place in the genealogy of God’s people.

Series: FLOOD Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "All in the family" on Sunday, January 19, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: If you have to boast at all, boast in this: You have been loved more than you could have hoped, far better than you deserve.

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.