Series: FATHERS

Pastor 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: FATHERS

Pastor 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: FATHERS

Pastor 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: FATHERS

Pastor 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: FATHERS

Pastor 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: FATHERS

Pastor 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: FATHERS

Pastor 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: FATHERS

Pastor 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: FATHERS

Pastor 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: FATHERS

Pastor 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.”