EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB The Big Idea: To bear witness to the gospel means confessing the violent sacrifice of Jesus as central to your identity as a human being.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB The Big Idea: Sinners are unresolved stories in search of resolution. Your entire life will make sense in a way that you never could have imagined when you see Jesus and he says, “You are finished. You are complete. You are my work that was finished that day. Enter into my rest.”

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB The Big Idea: When Jesus speaks to us about our relationships, he speaks from the cross—with the personal authority of someone who has paid for us with his life.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB The Big Idea: When the One who is Life climbed onto the dead tree in the place of death and died, he reopened the way to the tree of life. When he made that cross our tree of life, he was telling us, “Reach out your hand, take of this tree of life, and eat, and live forever.”

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB The Big Idea: Sin is not just a violation of commandments. It is the vandalism against God’s image that Jesus came to undo. Every sinner is a humiliating parody of what he was created to be—and it’s only by believing in Jesus that you can be truly and eternally restored.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB The Big Idea: Unbelief takes two forms — hostility toward Jesus and indifference to his message. Hostility when Jesus interferes with your worship and indifference when you simply don’t have any use for him. We are saved because God is not willing to be either hostile or indifferent toward us.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Lamb tried and denied" on Sunday, February 11, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The most difficult test of faith is when Jesus rejects your conditions and your mistaken hopes. It leaves you cold, it shakes the foundation—but on the other side of this test is true contentment with what Je...

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Lamb in custody" on Sunday, January 28, 2024 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Never was a person so free as Jesus of Nazareth, yet he was willing to be betrayed, seized, bound, and handed off like a criminal so that you and I can know real freedom.

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.