Series: 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.

Series: 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.

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.”