Shows
EBC Fallbrook SermonsA meal for the agesSeries: COMMUNIONPastor 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.
2025-04-1442 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsCup of the CovenantSeries: COMMUNIONPastor 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.
2025-04-0749 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsBread of LifeSeries: COMMUNIONPastor 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 6:48–51The Big Idea: The body of Jesus is a new kind of nourishment that imparts eternal life to all who feed on him in faith.
2025-03-3141 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe crime of being found out — Matthew 16:5–12Pastor 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.
2025-03-1744 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe colors of grace — Genesis 9:1–17Series: FLOODPastor 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.
2025-03-1044 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsGod's green earth — Genesis 8:20–22Series: FLOODPastor 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.”
2025-03-0341 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsGod’s selective memory — Genesis 8:1–19Series: FLOODPastor 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.
2025-02-2435 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsFor dear life — Genesis 7:1–24Series: FLOODPastor 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.
2025-02-1740 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsAll that God commanded — Genesis 6:9–22Series: FLOODPastor 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 flooded with grace.
2025-02-1040 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsA flood of grace — Genesis 6:1–8Series: FLOODPastor 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.
2025-02-0340 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsNaming the gospel — Genesis 5:1–32Series: 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.
2025-01-2747 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsAll in the family — Genesis 4:16–26Series: 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.
2025-01-2041 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsMy brother's blood — Genesis 4:1–15Series: 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.
2025-01-1241 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsBearing fruit in 2025 — John 15:1–11Pastor 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.
2025-01-0546 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsOut of Eden — Genesis 3:20–24Series: 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.
2024-12-2942 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsBreakthrough — Luke 2:8–20Pastor 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.
2024-12-2523 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsKing of the Curse — Genesis 3:14–19Series: 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.
2024-12-2244 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsAnswering for our sin — Genesis 3:8–13Series: 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.
2024-12-1536 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsDoes your God hold out on you? — Genesis 3:1–7Series: 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 Christ’s, and so that we could know the infinite goodness of God.
2024-12-0843 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsGospel romance — Genesis 2:18–25Series: 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.
2024-12-0141 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsDying to eat — Genesis 2:9–17Series: 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.
2024-11-2438 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsMore than dust — Genesis 2:4–8Series: 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.
2024-11-1751 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe goal of creation — Genesis 2:1–3Series: 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.
2024-11-1048 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsHard Love — Matthew 5:43–48Pastor 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.
2024-11-0345 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe Creative Day — Genesis 1Series: 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.
2024-10-2739 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe Creative Calling — Genesis 1Series: 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.
2024-10-2041 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe Creative Reunion — Genesis 1Series: 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.”
2024-10-1340 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe Creative Joy — Genesis 1Series: 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.
2024-10-0640 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe Creative Power — Genesis 1Series: 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.
2024-09-2933 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe Creative Command — Genesis 1Series: 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.
2024-09-2242 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe Creative Word — Genesis 1Series: 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.
2024-09-1541 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe Creative Pattern — Genesis 1:2Series: 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.
2024-09-0843 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe real universe — Genesis 1:1Series: 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.
2024-09-0142 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsGospel wreckage — Matthew 21:33–44Series: "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 on Jesus and his sacrifice.
2024-08-2543 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsAll and nothing — Micah 6:6–8Series: "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 withhold or protect from God if you really want a relationship with him.
God has sacrificed, God has suffered, and God has spared no expense in his attempt to connect with...
2024-08-1849 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsComing clean — Isaiah 1:1–20Series: "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 wants is your whole heart.
2024-08-1151 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsStarting over again — 1 Samuel 13:1–14Series: "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.
2024-08-0444 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsDeath on opening day — Leviticus 10:1–11Series: "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.”
2024-07-2846 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsBlood brothers — Genesis 4:1–8Series: "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 sacrifice was accepted (like Abel) — and the rest of us are saved by our faith in that sacrifice.
Jesus is the innocent brother who bled to save us and turn all of...
2024-07-2143 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsLiving in a material world — Matthew 6:25–33 with 25:31–46Pastor 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.
2024-07-1440 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsBad publicity — Matthew 5:14–16 with 6:1Pastor 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 when it’s time to keep it between yourself and God. Jesus was hanged on a tree in public so that we can find both fame and...
2024-07-0750 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsBold as a lion — Proverbs 28:1Pastor 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.
2024-06-3041 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsToo good for Jesus — Mark 2:13–17Pastor 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.
2024-06-2341 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsDirt poor and filthy rich — 1 Corinthians 7:17–24Pastor 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.
2024-06-1635 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsNew life in old skin — Matthew 9:14–17Pastor 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.
2024-06-0935 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe Righteousness Question — Matthew 12:9–14Pastor 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.
2024-06-0235 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsA hearty love for the world — John 3:16–17 with 1 John 2:15–16Pastor 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.
2024-05-2635 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsCan you hear me now? — Luke 9:28–36Pastor 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.
2024-05-1944 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsFaith in the Information Age — John 21:20–25Series: 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.
2024-05-1245 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsShameless love — John 21:15–19Series: 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.
2024-05-0541 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsTeach a man to fish — John 21:1–14Series: 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.
2024-04-2839 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsGrace for slow believers — John 20:24–29Series: 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.
2024-04-1446 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsShalom, y'all! — John 20:19–23Series: 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?
2024-04-0742 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe Lamb tried and denied — John 18:15–27Series: 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 Jesus has already provided.
2024-02-1143 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe Lamb in custody — John 18:1–14Series: 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.
2024-01-2838 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe future that Jesus wants — John 17:20–26Series: 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.
2024-01-2140 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe witness that Jesus wants — John 17:13–19Series: 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.
2024-01-1441 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe unity that Jesus wants — John 17:9–12Series: 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.
2024-01-0741 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsBear fruit or bust — Luke 3:7–14Pastor 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.
2023-12-3134 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsBehold the Son of Man — Luke 2:1–7Series: BEGINNINGS
Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Behold the Son of Man" as a special Christmas Eve message at Emmanuel Baptist on Sunday, December 24, 2023.
2023-12-2513 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsFull-term faith — Luke 1:57–80Series: 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.
2023-12-2437 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe messianic baby shower — Luke 1:39–56Series: 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.
2023-12-1738 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsA terribly wonderful favor — Luke 1:26–38Series: 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.
2023-12-1031 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe beginning of the end — Luke 1:5–25Series: 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.
2023-12-0340 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe revelation that Jesus wants — John 17:6–8Series: 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.
2023-11-1939 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe status that Jesus wants — John 17:4–5Series: 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.
2023-11-1245 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe life that Jesus wants — John 17:3Series: 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.
2023-11-0543 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe glory that Jesus wants — John 17:1–2Series: 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.
2023-10-2948 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsWhose love? What peace? — John 16:25–33Series: 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.
2023-10-2241 min
EBC Fallbrook Sermons"Now you see me" — John 16:16–24Series: 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.
2023-10-1539 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe work of the Spirit — John 16:4–15Series: 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.
2023-10-0846 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsGood, upstanding citizens — John 16:1–4Series: 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.
2023-10-0138 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe case against God — Exodus 17:1–7Series: 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.
2023-09-2437 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsWater from the heart — John 7:37–39Series: 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.
2023-09-1742 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsLest we forget — Psalm 95Series: 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.
2023-09-1048 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsOld Moses and the Rock — Numbers 20:2–13Series: 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.
2023-09-0342 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsOrganic and locally grown — John 15:1–11Series: 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.
2023-08-1344 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsMinding the gospel — John 14:25–31Series: 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.
2023-08-0637 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsNever alone — John 14:15–24Series: 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.
2023-07-3045 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsAsking for more — John 14:8–14Series: 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.
2023-07-2334 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsA place for you — John 14:1–7Series: 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 it without Jesus.
2023-07-1634 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsLeft behind — John 13:36–38Series: 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.
2023-07-0937 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsImpossible love — John 13:31–35Series: 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.
2023-07-0238 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsSold for us — John 13:21–30Series: 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.
2023-06-2539 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsHumility is a verb — John 13:12–20Series: 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.
2023-06-1834 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe God who washes feet — John 13:1–11Series: 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.
2023-06-1143 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsOver and out — John 12:44–50Series: 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.”
2023-06-0438 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsHearing, seeing & saying the glory of Jesus — John 12:36–43Series: 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.
2023-05-2847 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsCometh the Man — John 12:27–36Series: 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.
2023-05-2139 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsWe would see Jesus — John 12:20–26Series: 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 end, be with him where he is.
2023-05-1432 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe king of humility — John 12:12–19Series: 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 looking for. That’s the Triumphal Entry.
2023-05-0736 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsMarked for death — John 12:9–11Series: 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—but it’s actually a new life.
2023-04-3029 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsSt. Mary's prodigal hearts club — John 12:1–8Series: 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. All life-changing worship is like this—it is an outrage to decent human sensibility. It is prodigal. It is too much.
2023-04-2338 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe conspiracy against life — John 11:45–57Series: 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.
2023-04-1637 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsThe voice of life — John 11:33–44Series: 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.
2023-04-0934 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsYou had to be there — John 11:17–32Series: 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.
2023-04-0237 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsBelieve the works — John 10:22–42Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Believe the works" on March 19, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.
The Big Idea: If you really get a clear sight of Jesus, you either want to kill him or worship him. If you feel that you’re on some middle ground between those two poles, then you actually aren’t hearing him clearly yet.
2023-03-1945 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsWe the sheep — John 10:1–21Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "We the sheep" on March 12, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.
The Big Idea: When you are ready to lay aside your self-sufficiency, you will find that you are already being led by a Savior who is like a shepherd to us—gentle, wise, protective and strong.
2023-03-1239 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsAll you need to say — John 9:8–34Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "All you need to say" on February 26, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.
The Big Idea: The one thing any of us know better than anyone is what Jesus has done to us. Nobody knows Jesus like you do. And so the one thing any of us really needs to say is our "one thing I know."
2023-02-2632 min
EBC Fallbrook SermonsMade blind to make us all see — John 9:1–7Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Made blind to make us all see" on February 19, 2023 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.
The Big Idea: We no longer live in a world where people pay for their own sin. Jesus takes the punishment for our sin, and we are both forgiven and healed from the effects of sin by washing in him.
2023-02-1939 min