Barberton Church of God

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams moves to Haggai 2 with 4 examples of how our eyes need reset to be fixed on Jesus.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams gives us 3 ingredients from Haggai 1 which should be part of the reset of our lives with God.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams discusses how to prepare for a reset in our lives. Speaking from Joshua 24 he gives us three steps for a reset that require Jesus as the focus to be done correctly

Continuing with the Married to the Church teaching series, Rev. Dr. Matt Williams tells us Jesus was actively looking for the lost from Luke 15:1-7

In a series on being married to the church, Rev. Dr. Matt Williams discusses what comes next after that union takes place. Taken from 2 Corinthians 5:13-21, Dr. Williams says we are called to be different, we are held together, and we are controlled by love.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams discusses what we have made the church vs. what the church really is. He also talks about the mark of the local church compared to the universal church.  Scripture passages are taken from Acts 2:2-4 and 1 Corinthians 3:16

In the wrap-up message to parents and children of Vacation Bible School, Rev. Dr. Matt Williams shares how God's monumental love reaches out to all of us to bring us to himself. The love is for everyone through the actions of Jesus Christ, his death, and resurrection.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams talks about how we so often do not hear each other and gives us 4 keys to being hearers for each other. Scripture passages include James 1:19-25 and Hebrews 5:11

From Mark 4:35-41, Rev. Dr. Matt Williams shows us how Jesus is in our boat. He is Lord in the storm, but he is not the storm.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams discusses how to restore hope once it's gone based on 1 Peter 1:1-9. He gives us 6 keys from this passage to restore our hope even when we have lost it.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams continues teaching us about storms from Genesis 33:1-10 as he shows us how God often meets us through people in our lives.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams deals with the upside of our storms based on Matthew 14:22-33 and the story of Jesus walking on water as he goes out to meet his disciples who went ahead of him on the boat. Rev. Williams provides for ways that storms have an upside.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams continues the Storms teaching series from James 1:1-5 talking about how to have joy in our storms. He provides several factors about storms that can lead to joy.

In Acts 13:5, 12-13; 15:36-40 John-Mark had great aspirations of joining the missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas, but somewhere along the way he encountered storms and left them. Rev. Dr. Matt Williams discusses these types of storms and how we deal with them and then shows how Paul might have eventually had a change of heart in 2 Timothy 4:11.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams takes the storm that Paul and his companions encountered in Acts 27:16-44 and gives us the anchors the Paul shows us in this episode and how to apply them to our own storms in life.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams continues a Storms teaching series from Matthew 7:24-27 as he discusses where the foundation of our lives is built. Will our foundation withstand the storms of life or will we be washed away? The one foundation that can withstand any storm is Jesus Christ.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams begins a new teaching series on storms from Mark 4:35-41. How do we handle our storms? The disciples couldn't believe Jesus would sleep through the storm and were afraid. Dr. Williams gives us several keys to dealing with our storms in light of the Scriptures and Jesus' involvement. 

Rev. Jim Roma uses 1 Corinthians 15:1-8; 15-20 to remind us that Easter doesn't have to be over in one day. Easter is an everyday thing to be remembered and lived out.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams tells us that Easter is about Jesus. Without him in the middle it really isn't Easter. Luke 23:39-43 is the reference for this weeks message.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams speaks from John 18:12-14; 25-27 and Luke 23:39-43. We will all respond to the arrest, false trial, and death of Jesus. Peter responded one way, the two men who were hanged with Jesus responded by mocking and accepting. How will each of us respond?

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams concludes the Resolved series with a look at how to finish well as a follower of Christ. This message is taken from Joshua 13:1 as Rev. Williams provides several tips on finishing well.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams discusses how to grow as a believer in Christ. He looks at 1 Timothy 4:13-15; Philippians 3:13-14; Colossians 3:2, Romans 8:5 and 1 John 2:15-17 as he gives us ways that we can grow up.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams continues his Resolved series by discussing serving. Using John 13:4-5; Philippians 2:7-8; 1 John 2:6 and others he talks about what it means to serve with our entire being. He also gives several points on how to serve with distinction.

Rev. Dr. Matt Williams talks about the topic most preachers try to avoid, giving. He uses Matthew 6:24, Ephesians 6:12, Deuteronomy 14:23, and Malachai 3:10 for this insightful and important look at why we need to take this subject seriously.

Continuing the Resolved series Rev. Dr. Matt Williams talks about how we are called to tell the world about Jesus. Based on Romans 1:16-17 & 1 Corinthians 15:3-5 he tells us the Who, What, Why and Who of what we tell.

Rev. Matt Wiliam discusses the meaning and importance of worship for the individual as well as the life of the church. He uses John 4:21-24 as the primary text for his message as he also refers to several other biblical references to worship.

Continuing the Resolved series Rev. Matt Williams picks up and continues with his previous message of being in the Word of God. Using 2 Timothy 3:14-17 as his focus Rev. Wiliams discusses the importance of Scripture for our lives.

Using the "Lord's Prayer" in Matthew 6:9-14 Rev. Matt Williams walks through the importance and meaning of prayer for the believer and follower of Jesus.

Rev. Matt Williams talks about the importance of having the Word of God as the primary source of life for the believer based on Hebrews 4:12-13

In the second week of Advent, Rev. Matt Williams talks about the birth and pronouncements of Jesus and the love that surrounded this event in Luke 2:1-20. Love is a God thing that envelops all of us in some manner. 

Rev. Matt Williams talks about Hope on the first Sunday of Advent. Based on Luke 1:5-25 and the story of the coming birth of John the Baptist, Rev. Williams talks about the hope God gives us when we need it most.

Rev. Matt Williams reveals some interesting Thanksgiving trivia then goes into a short study on the meaning of Thanksgiving in our lives.

Rev. Matt Wiliams shares his experience and lessons from recovery from the illness from a biblical perspective.

Basing his message on Matthew 18:1-4 and 1 Peter 2:2-4, Rev. Jim Roma talks about the necessity of Christian growth and maturity and how that looks in the life of the believer and the church

Rev. Jim Roma talks about the importance and how to share our faith using Matthew 24:14 as his basis and including many other passages of scripture

Rev. Matt Williams uses Paul's own retelling of his conversion story on the road to Damascus in Acts 22:2-21 to show how, in all of life's situations, the answer is always Jesus.

Rev. Matt Williams refers to several scriptures that show us how Jesus and the Disciples used or arranged meal settings to be able to talk to people about life and eventually invite them into the life of God. We can all do the same thing if we make the simple arrangement of a meal.

Rev. Matt Williams uses Colossians 4:2-6 to talk about how we can use kindness to open doors to reach people for Jesus Christ and share the Gospel and in the process surprise the world.

Using various biblical texts Rev. Matt Williams helps see how to deal with change that is inevitable for everyone.

Rev. Matt Williams talks about becoming a church that is contagious based on Matthew 5:13 and 1 Thessaloinians 2

From Acts 2:42-47 Rev. Matt Williams talks about what real fellowship should look like in the church.

Rev. Jim Roma deals with the difficult topic that we all will face whether as the one getting older or the one caring for an aging loved one. How do we handle it? Pastor Roma gives us some great tools from a mostly obscure friend of King David.

Rev. Matt Williams shares this message to close out this year's Bible School along the same theme. This is a very basic, but needed message for our children and their families about a relationship with Christ and eternity with him based primarily on Romans 3.

Rev. Matt Williams discusses the importance of teaching biblical truth in the church from the lesson of the early church in Acts 2:42 and 6:1-2.

Rev. Matt Williams looks at worship by looking at the development of the early church in Acts 2 and the response of Isaiah to his encounter with God in Isaiah 6. What does expect from our worship and what do we consider worship to be?

Rev. Matt Williams begins a new series on Portraits of the Church. This episode is taken from Mark 2:1-13 where the friends of the paralytic dig a hole in the roof of the house where Jesus is teaching in order to get their friend to him for healing. Rev. Williams gives us several factors that we need in the church to be effectively caring for each other.

Rev. Matt Williams discusses how we can turn Christianity into a religion rather than a relationship that drives people away with rules and regulations rather than inviting them in.

Rev. Matt Williams talks about the excuses me make that set us back in life and with God.

Rev. Matt Williams continues in a series on blind spots. In this message he deals with the issue of apathy. It almost sneaks in without our even knowing it. It affects so many areas that we don't realize and infects at times.

Rev. Matt Williams continues a series on Blind Spots. The church in Laodicea was blinded by their own good stuff. They had money, medicine and status. Jesus had to be blunt and abrupt to open their eyes to the reality of their situation. Sometimes we need to be faced with the truth of our own situation to be able to really see it.

Rev. Matt Williams continues discussing our blind spots. Do we see the blind areas in our lives or do just not want to see them? Maybe we just can't see them right now. God will reveal the areas we need to address and the issues we need to resolve.