Series: 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.

Series: 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.

Series: 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.

Series: "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.

Series: "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 you.

Series: "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.

Series: "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.

Series: "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.”

Series: "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 our faithless, self-serving religion into acceptable worship.

Pastor 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.