Series: 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.

Series: 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.

Series: 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?

Series: MORE LIFE

The Big Idea: You’ll never find Jesus if you’re looking for a dead man, an inanimate object, a disembodied truth, or an impersonal solution to your problems. Those are all things you might find lying around.

But Jesus is found by the sound of his voice, and your name on his lips, and the sudden recognition that he is alive and giving himself to you.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB

The Big Idea: To bear witness to the gospel means confessing the violent sacrifice of Jesus as central to your identity as a human being.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB

The Big Idea: Sinners are unresolved stories in search of resolution. Your entire life will make sense in a way that you never could have imagined when you see Jesus and he says, “You are finished. You are complete. You are my work that was finished that day. Enter into my rest.”

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB

The Big Idea: When Jesus speaks to us about our relationships, he speaks from the cross—with the personal authority of someone who has paid for us with his life.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB

The Big Idea: When the One who is Life climbed onto the dead tree in the place of death and died, he reopened the way to the tree of life.

When he made that cross our tree of life, he was telling us, “Reach out your hand, take of this tree of life, and eat, and live forever.”

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB

The Big Idea: Sin is not just a violation of commandments. It is the vandalism against God’s image that Jesus came to undo.

Every sinner is a humiliating parody of what he was created to be—and it’s only by believing in Jesus that you can be truly and eternally restored.

Series: THE VICTORIOUS LAMB

The Big Idea: Unbelief takes two forms — hostility toward Jesus and indifference to his message. Hostility when Jesus interferes with your worship and indifference when you simply don’t have any use for him.

We are saved because God is not willing to be either hostile or indifferent toward us.