EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Series: MERIBAH Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The case against God" on September 24, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The gospel is not only the dry path through deep waters, it’s also the water we need in the dry places of life. Our God provides both.

Series: MERIBAH Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Water from the heart" on September 17, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus turns the sinner’s dead heart of stone into a spring of life.

Series: MERIBAH Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Lest we forget" on September 10, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: "Hardening your heart" means turning away from the gospel or leaving it behind in search of more “immediate” saviors.

Series: MERIBAH Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Old Moses and the Rock" on September 3, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Obedience is important because every opportunity to obey God is a chance to rehearse the gospel.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Organic and locally grown" on Sunday, August 13, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Bearing fruit means doing what Jesus would do if he were here.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Minding the gospel" on August 6, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The Holy Spirit reminds us of the gospel, which is our peace, so that when suffering comes we will remember that the worst is over.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Never alone" on July 30, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Christ’s people obey him because we are captivated by his beauty and grace, which is seen most vividly in what he’s done for us.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Asking for more" on July 23, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: There is nothing Jesus is unwilling to give you if your heart is fixed on him. In other words, when what you want from God is what God wants to give you, nothing you ask of him will be denied.

Series: FAREWELL Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "A place for you" on July 16, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: If you know Jesus, you know the way home, you know the reality of home, and you are already at home spiritually. That’s what “I am the way, the truth and the life” means. There is a place where we truly belong and we never would have found i...

Series: APPROACHING THE CROSS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Left behind" on July 9, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: It’s believing the gospel, that you’re a failure and you’re loved anyways, that creates the devotion necessary to follow Jesus where he is going.

Series: APPROACHING THE CROSS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Impossible love" on July 2, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The visible glory of Christ here and now is that his people are known for their love.

Series: APPROACHING THE CROSS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Sold for us" on June 25, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus was willingly betrayed so that traitors like you and me can be forgiven and feast with him in heaven.

Series: APPROACHING THE CROSS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Humility is a verb" on Sunday, June 18, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The only motivation that can keep you washing people’s feet is the desire for more of Jesus—for yourself, and for others.

Series: APPROACHING THE CROSS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The God who washes feet" on Sunday, June 11, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: You’ll never love Jesus for who he really is until you share in his humility.

Series: APPROACHING THE CROSS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Over and out" on Sunday, June 4, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus has the right to tell everyone what to believe—and his message to the whole world is, “Believe in me.”

Series: APPROACHING THE CROSS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Hearing, seeing & saying the glory of Jesus" on Sunday, May 28, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: God chooses the moment when his people are deaf, blind and mute to work his plan and save the world.

Series: APPROACHING THE CROSS. Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Cometh the Man" on May 21, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: You can’t avoid the storms of life, and unless you are completely taken with the worth and beauty of God, you will sink under a bad enough crisis.

Series: APPROACHING THE CROSS. Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "We would see Jesus" on May 14, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus welcomed his own death, and to the world that looked like a man who hated his life. But Jesus wasn't suicidal; he loved life so much that he was even willing to die so that you and I can have more of it—and, in the...

Series: APPROACHING THE CROSS Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The king of humility" on May 7, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus fulfills the popular expectation of his day while at the same time contradicting the content of it—all by choosing to ride a donkey. The king has finally arrived, and he’s here to provide the salvation that no one was l...

Series: LAZARUS. Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Marked for death" on April 30, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: When Jesus raises you to life, you might think everything is going to be peachy, but in fact, you’re now associated with Jesus in a way that makes you a threat to his enemies. Nearness to Jesus looks for all the world like a death sentence...

Series: LAZARUS. Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "St. Mary's prodigal hearts club" on April 23, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: In pouring out this ointment, Mary is being prodigal with Jesus—prodigal means “​​wastefully extravagant, spending money or resources freely and recklessly.” She is being immoderate, immodest, excessive and irresponsible...

Series: LAZARUS. Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The conspiracy against life" on April 16, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Whatever your heart wants the most—even if that thing is something good, like the temple—if it is getting in between you and Jesus, it either has to die now or destroy you later.

Series: LAZARUS. Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The voice of life" on April 9, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: A world that doesn’t believe in resurrection can only offer platitudes to those who are in the shadow of death, but Jesus speaks no platitudes. He speaks to the dead, and they live again.

Series: LAZARUS. Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "You had to be there" on April 2, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus didn’t just come to make some things a little better—to make life a little easier for us—to solve some of our problems. He came to make everything brand new.

Series: LAZARUS. Pastor Tom preached "Taking his sweet time" on March 26, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: Jesus is not afraid to let something really, really bad happen in order to bring a bewildering and indelible kind of beauty out of it.