EBC Fallbrook Sermons

Series: MEANT FOR EVILPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Unrecognized Savior" on Sunday, May 3, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus saw us for who we were long before we recognized him—and he used his advantage to save us when we weren’t looking for salvation.

Series: MEANT FOR EVILPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The trial of success" on Sunday, April 26, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: When it looked like things couldn’t possibly get any worse for us, God unsealed the infinite riches of his grace in Jesus, and the life is still flowing for the whole world from that source.

Series: MEANT FOR EVILPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The royal interview" on Sunday, April 19, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: God’s answer to the nightmare of our sin was to swallow up death.

Series: MEANT FOR EVILPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The forgotten servant" on Sunday, April 12, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus is the innocent man who serves the guilty, interpreting God’s purposes once and for all by dying on the cross for our sins.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "One Wild and Precious Life" on Sunday, April 5, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: The only way to make your wild and precious life last forever is to hide it in the One who died for you and yet lives.

Series: MEANT FOR EVILPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The faithful servant" on Sunday, March 29, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: In the face of temptation, the surest form of resistance is a stronger love.

Series: MEANT FOR EVILPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Desperate Measures" on Sunday, March 22, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California. The Big Idea: The cross is an act of redemption so drastic that it’s indecent—but it’s the only thing drastic enough to bring sinners to the recognition of our moral bankruptcy.

Series: MEANT FOR EVILPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Selling the Obedient Son" on Sunday, March 15, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Beholding Christ’s obedience for us is what gives us the joy to obey when God asks difficult things.

Series: MEANT FOR EVILPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Read the room, Joseph" on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus is the Son who was adored by his Father, despised by his brothers, and destined to save the entire family of faith.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Tried and True" on Sunday, March 1, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: The glib, superficial agreement we give to idea that God is good has to mature into real, tested faith—or else we will go on mistaking pleasant circumstances for God’s blessings forever.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Grace for going out and coming in" on Sunday, February 22, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Not only is there no shame in retracing your steps—this is how God has designed the life of faith.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Religious malpractice" on Sunday, February 15, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Evangelism isn’t just “presenting the ABCs of salvation,” it’s how we communicate who Jesus is and what we think he’s doing in us and in our world. Misrepresenting him is a form of spiritual abuse against people who don't know any better.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Where grace meets guilt" on Sunday, February 8, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus already paid for your sin so that your homecoming can be sheer and unlimited joy.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Limping toward home" on Sunday, February 1, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: To be a Christian is to limp in one very specific way—it means publicly confessing, “I can’t save myself.”

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "God and the nations" on Sunday, January 25, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: When the church gathers in worship, the heavens can hear us singing, and what they’re hearing is the sound of the nations exalting the one True and Eternal King.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "A God of Justice" on Sunday, January 18, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: The cross satisfied justice in heaven and on earth—in heaven by overthrowing the divine council, on earth by atoning for human sin once and for all.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "God and the gods" on Sunday, January 11, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: There are multitudes of elohim, but only one YHWH—that’s what “God Most High” means.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "What do you want?" on Sunday, January 4, 2026 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: The Son of God was discontent on our behalf before we had the sense to know what we really wanted. He came that we may have life, and have it abundantly.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The God with a genealogy" on Sunday, December 28, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus is the promised Son, fully divine and fully human, who was sent to give us the chance to become sons and daughters of God.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The Son of God" on Sunday, December 21, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus must be your personal Savior, and once he is that, then you must learn how grand the story of salvation really is.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The gift of salvation" on Sunday, December 14, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus is the free gift that opens the way for offerings that God truly enjoys—not as obligations, but as moments of delight with his children.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "God is watching" on Sunday, December 7, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: The cross marks the place where true guilty meets true innocence, innocence suffers, blood is shed, Jesus becomes our city of refuge, and we know God is watching—not to search for guilt, but to create life.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Safe in the household of God" on Sunday, November 30, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: All our lives we search and search for that thing that will satisfy our hearts, but Jesus is the God who came looking for you.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The blemished flock" on Sunday, November 23, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus is the spotless Lamb whose life is traded for the blemished ones, the creatures hopelessly marked by our sin.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The only cure" on Sunday, November 16, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: There is only one cure for what ails us, and it’s Jesus.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Bear fruit or die" at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California on Sunday, November 9, 2025.The Big Idea: Jesus can tell us to “bear fruit or die” because he died so we would bear fruit—not by striving, like the sister-wives of Jacob, but as naturally as telling a story.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The unwanted sister" on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus didn’t just work to have his bride, he died to have her—and he chose the unlovely one.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The real stairway to heaven" on Sunday, October 26, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus turns spiritual rocks like you and me into his personal temples, anointed with the “oil” of the Holy Spirit.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Grace in disguise" on Sunday, October 19, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus is God wearing the disguise of humanity—but Jesus didn’t wear his disguise to take a blessing for himself. He wore it to give himself away as a blessing to the whole world.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "I dig you" on Sunday, October 12, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus does all of the work and gives you the living water—he digs the well and says, “The water is yours.”

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Public display of affection" on Sunday, October 5, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Isaac was deceptive about his love—he hid it, he kept it private, he tried not let anyone see how much he loved Rebekah—and he was rewarded with the protection of a pagan king. But Jesus refused to hide or disguise his love, and the pagan king of his day killed him for it.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Loving your birthright" on Sunday, September 28, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus is the brother who willingly transfers his birthright to undeserving, indifferent people.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Who is the main character of your story?" on Sunday, September 21, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus knew all along that his purpose was to suffer, and instead of saying, “Why?” he said, “Your will be done.”

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The most important thing" on Sunday, September 14, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Political violence is a counterfeit of the one thing that really is saving the world, which is the innocent blood of Jesus.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Sons and servants" on Sunday, September 7, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: A good servant represents his master accurately, takes his mission personally, and succeeds not primarily by trying but by believing.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Show your receipts" on Sunday, August 31, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Gravesite ownership is a thread you can follow all the way to the end of the story of Israel: 2,000 years after Sarah was buried in a cave that her husband went to such great lengths to buy, one of her descendants would be laid in a borrowed tomb. And the borrowed tomb stands as a symbol of the impermanence of death.

Pastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Be selfish for others" on Sunday, August 24, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: The sacrifice you receive is what makes it possible to act sacrificially when the time comes.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Sons and slaves" on Sunday, August 3, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus is the heir of heaven who was rejected and sent away, not to be rescued, but to die so that we would receive his inheritance.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Miracle baby" on Sunday, July 27, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: God is true to his word, his timing, and his own glory.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Father figures" on Sunday, July 20, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Christ’s death is both a profession of love and a moment of pure honesty.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Don't look back" on Sunday, July 13, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Christ takes every tragedy in Gen. 19 on himself and gives it a happy ending for us.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Bargaining with God" on Sunday, July 6, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: God has fully revealed himself to us in Christ so that we would respond wholeheartedly to him.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Heart hospitality" on Sunday, June 29, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: God visited Abraham and found a warm welcome. Jesus visited us and we crucified him. He came to this world knowing he would be unwelcome in order to make room in his Kingdom for you.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Sign of the covenant" on Sunday, June 22, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: The scars of Jesus and the cross where he died are the strongest evidence you have of God’s forgiveness and acceptance. Those scars are telling you that you are part of a covenant that has been made in Christ’s flesh.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "The God who pays attention" on Sunday, June 15, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Is there someone who has ever held our fate in his hands and chosen to obey God instead of let us down?Jesus was the one who never said, “I’ll do it my way” — but instead, when he was in the crisis of his life, prayed, “Not my will but yours be done.”

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Father of faith" on Sunday, June 8, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus walked the sacrificial road and was severed from his Father under thick darkness to enact a new and eternal covenant.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Loving the promises of God" on Sunday, June 1, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: True faith is determined to be enriched by Christ or not at all.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Going away from the gospel" on Sunday, May 25, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: We can’t have any boundaries with God and expect to enjoy his blessings. In Christ, God dissolved every boundary so you can live your whole life connected to him.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Cultural enrichment" on Sunday, May 18, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus is the husband who gladly lost everything and died to have his bride.

Series: FATHERSPastor Tom Pfingsten preached "Hit the road" on Sunday, May 11, 2025 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Fallbrook, California.The Big Idea: Jesus is the Son who left his Father knowing that it would cost him everything.