EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Creative Command" on Sunday, September 22, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: God is more patient, more hopeful, and more joyful about what he is doing in our lives than we are.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Creative Word" on Sunday, September 15, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The gospel is the creative word that awakens the chaotic deep of our sinful hearts.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Creative Pattern" on Sunday, September 8, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Every saved sinner is a new masterpiece of God’s creative vision. Whatever your darkness or your chaos, God can work with it—and he is the master artist who never fails to achieve perfection in his work.

Series: CREATION Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The real universe" on Sunday, September 1, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Everything in the universe means something because the universe includes a “heavens” and an “earth.” What Jesus did on the cross means that the heavens and the earth will again be one. He is reuniting heavens and earth .

Series: "SPARE ME" Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Gospel wreckage" on Sunday, August 25, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The cross is so real, so powerful, and so effective in giving life that it will destroy anything you try to build on a different foundation. In other words, God himself deconstructs everything in us that’s not founded o...

Series: "SPARE ME" Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "All and nothing" on Sunday, August 18, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: There is nothing outside of yourself that you could bring to God that would impress or appease him, nothing you can give that will keep you in relationship with him. There is nothing inside of yourself that you can with...

Series: "SPARE ME" Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Coming clean" on Sunday, August 11, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Only after you are cleansed by the blood of Jesus will you have anything to offer that God actually wants. And nothing you offer apart from faith in Jesus will be accepted even after you’re saved. Because what God really w...

Series: "SPARE ME" Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Starting over again" on Sunday, August 4, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The cross is the sacrifice God invites you to come back to over and over again, as often as you need to, as often as you think of it, until the day you leave this world.

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.