HOW TO DETERMINE THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER
A basic guideline for every believer:  Before you read anything else here, read this!  Plus these studies on truth:

• Myths Taught About the Bible

• You Can Break the Chain Links to places that will verify the truth in those emails you get and stories you hear

• Believe It! Some amazing stories that have been verified as being true

• Opinions, Everyone Has One Sorting opinion from fact   (article 10)

  • God's Opinion How Kay sought God's opinion on a particular topic
    
    

   JESUS

• Jesus is the Key A collection of Bible studies about Jesus

• Jesus: The Only Way An interesting collection of information about Jesus

• Jesus is in the House Why won't Jesus help? Why do we have to keep doing everything ourselves?

• The Genealogy of Jesus The Bible has a list of Jesus' human ancestors. Here is a chart that lists them all

• Jesus 1.0 Is there such a thing as a perfect computer program? Yes! This is it! Install it today!

• The Letter Your friend writes you a love letter

• Fountain of Blood The precious blood of Jesus

• The Parable of the Donuts Thinking about a gift that was given whether you wanted it or not

• How the Great Guest Came What would you do if Jesus came to visit?

• Christmas Newsletter from Jesus Upset about how people take Jesus out of Christmas?
  
  

  PERSONAL GROWTH: MENTAL & SPIRITUAL (and encouragement)

• At the Gate of the Year Comfort when we have to go into the unknown

• You Shall Not Be Denied Anything Now! God is working even when our hearts cry out, "Where are You?"

• The Journey to Love A poem:  Press on! The journey is not over

• Soar With Me A Word from God:  God calls you, "Beautiful"

• How Can God Help When Trials Come? A collection of Bible studies  Plus these studies:

  • The Masterpiece God is the healer of our soul

  • I Am Coming Like the Wind A Word from God:  What will happen to you when tough times strike?

  • God Understands A Word from God:  God knows what is happening in your life. He can help you in rough times

  • I Am the Answer God is all we need

  • At the Place of the Sea When you think you have reached the end God takes your hand

• Do You Need Peace or Rest? A collection of Bible studies

  • I Change Not A Word from God:  What things are certain in your life? What things change? God is a constant. Lean on Him

• Tap into the Power Source A collection of Bible studies

• Dying-to-Self A collection of Bible studies  Plus these studies:

  • Death of Self What does God expect us to do?

  • Trust Either you trust God or you don't

  • A Relationship With Papa Does "self" hinder your relationship with God?

    • Why I call God "Papa" by Don Eilers

  • Death to Self Scriptures and quotes from various people on dying-to-self

    • "Disappear" Lyrics

    • "So Long Self" Lyrics

    • "My Will" Lyrics

  • Becoming a Usable Vessel What can you do to be ready for God to use you? (article 6)

  • DEVOTIONAL: God's Will Surrendering our will to God

  • Quit Striving God wants us to stop "doing" and start "being"

• Day to Day Living A collection of Bible studies  Plus these studies:

  • God Says It So You Better Believe It! Whom are you going to believe?

  • It's Not a Trial, Just a Journey Do you feel "beaten up" by your trials?

  • The Battle Against satan It is a daily fight (article 5)

  • Joy is Yours  You can't escape it!  (article 12)

  • Remember the Mayonnaise and Coffee An interesting take on prioritizing what is important in life

  • The Road to Success Can we reach success? What does it take?

  • It All Depends on Whose Hands It's In Some insignificant things can become valuable in the right hands

  • The Garden What should you plant in your spiritual garden?

  • Heaven's Grocery Store A wonderful poem about all the things that are available for Christians for free

  • A Prayer Simple and profound

• Stand on Firm Ground A collection of Bible studies

• Being Used by God A collection of Bible studies  Plus these studies:

  • Army of One A Word from God: Are you busy doing things for God without waiting for Him to direct you?

  • Abide in the Heavenlies A Word from God: Be drawn to God. Here's how to abide in the heavenlies

  • Don't Be Led By a Ring Through Your Nose A Word from God: God has specific and specialized jobs for each member of the Body of Christ. We must break free of the limitations placed on the Body by people and seek God's direction

  • Be a Transmitter A Word from God: God wants to pour Himself right through you. Are you prepared?

  • Spiritual War is Being Waged A Word from God: War is being waged and you are being recruited. Are you going to heed the call?

  • Deep Calls to Deep A Word from God: We must step out in faith into things we don't understand

• A Closer Walk with God A collection of Bible studies

• Are You Building Up or Tearing Down? What comes out of your mouth?  (article 2)

• Roots (No, Not the Movie) What you are is a reflection of where you have sunk your roots  (article 7)

• Vows to God A vow is a promise. Is it necessary to make promises to God?

• The Room This story will surely cause you to reflect on how your actions make a difference

• God Said, "No" Why does God tell us, "No?"

• DEVOTIONAL:  Unity With God Having our focus on God at all times

• Look in My Eyes A Word from God:  Learning more about God and choosing His ways

• Great Expectations A Word from God:  Expect miracles

• Measure of Faith Increasing our faith

• My Pavilion ... Crawdad Hole! How do crawdads relate to us spiritually?

• The Proof is in the Pudding What are the trials in our lives?

• Orange Juice Redemption What does orange juice have to do with salvation?

• God's DNA What is spiritual DNA?

• Yours or His? Feeling sure of your talents and skills?

• He IS! Read this and be encouraged!

• Mental Memorial Altars Once God proves something to us we must not make Him prove it again
  
  

  KEEPING GOD IN THE FOREFRONT OF OUR MINDS

• Listening to God A collection of Bible studies

• Pennies from Heaven What's so special about a penny?

• Please Come  God is calling us to repentance and a change of heart

• Memo From God God wants to handle our problems

• Guidance Letting God lead
  
  

  PRAYER

• Prayer A collection of Bible studies

• Praying More Effectively What does the Bible say about prayer?

• Prayer Viewpoints Various authors commenting on prayer

• Scriptures About Prayer A compiliation of scriptures that talk about prayer

• Standing on the Wall A Word from God:  Watching for things that need prayer

• Speaking in Tongues  My own experiences

• Great is the Voice of the Intercessors A Word from God:  God wants to move on the earth and is waiting for the intercessors to hear His voice and to speak His will

• My Prayer Closet Kay thought she knew about prayer and God showed her that she knew very little

  • intro to My Prayer Closet

  • Making Prayers More Effective

  • Learning How to Listen to God

  • God Has Been Teaching Me

  • Going through the Process of Dying-to-Self

  • Oh My Gosh, I'm a Prophet!

  • Growing in the Lord
    
    

  MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE

• What Was God Thinking?  Why Are Men and Women So Different? Left brain/right brain, macho/dainty, sensitive/insensitive... WHY???  (article 1)

  • Scriptures for Husbands and Wives What does God want to say to husbands and wives?

• The Official Handbook for Parenting Weren't you given your parenting manual when your child was born?  Here's how to figure out the instructions for parenting.  (article 3)

• Christian Mothers It's time to honor Christian mothers for all they do!
  
  

  MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD

• Go, Churches, Go! A Word from God:  Churches need to listen to what God wants them to be doing

• Watch What You Say In order to make a difference in the spiritual realm you have to know what is real

• We Can Learn a Lot From Dogs  The world would be a lot nicer if we acted like dogs.

• What's Your Excuse? Are there reasons why God can't use you?

• The King's Highway A story about doing for others

• DEVOTIONAL: Reflection of His Glory  Reflecting God in our lives

• Reflection of God  A Word from God: Why did He come as a man and suffer and die?

• Are You Called to Be an Eagle?  A Word from God: Did God tell you to be an eagle? Have you had visions of eagles? What should you do?

• You Are Set Apart A Word from God: Comforting words from your Father in heaven.

• Be Ready to Be Used A Word from God: God wants to use you. There are things you must do to be ready

• Speak the Word A Word from God: God has jobs for us to do. One job He has for us is speaking things into existence

• We Are Here to Serve God makes our purpose plain, but do we listen?

• Shrimp Bucking the Crowd A lesson from shrimp on how to treat people

• The Rifle Range of God Hitting the mark
  
  

  BIBLE STORIES, BIBLE CHARACTERS, & SPECIFIC SCRIPTURES

• Moses' Math Problem  What are the logistics of such a large group of people moving across the desert?

• Nehemiah, Man of God  The book of Nehemiah demonstrates how one person can make a huge difference by exciting passion in others  (Article 16)

• The Refiner's Touch: Malachi 3:3  Seeing the relationship as God, a refiner of silver, to our lives today.

• The 23rd Psalm, More Than Meets the Eye  We've all read the 23rd psalm. Read it again in a new light

• Scripture Reference Index to Bible Studies

• Who Was That Woman?  A woman anointed Jesus with oil. Was it one woman and one occurrence, or was it two? Who was the woman? Was she a prostitute? Here is what the Bible says

• Abraham's Forefathers  All of Abraham's forefathers back to Noah were alive when he was born. Check out this chart!

• Kings of Israel and Judah  The kings of Judah and of Israel... which were good and which were bad? Are you confused? This chart might help

• Footprints of Faith   Our heroes of faith

• 1Peter 1:17-21   One sentence broken down into understandable parts
  
  

  STUDIES ON BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES

• God Wouldn't Do That! Would He? God doled out some mighty severe punishments in the Old Testament

• Will All of Israel Be Saved? A collection of scripture on that subject/li

• Do We Have to Understand the Bible?  Why are there so many different doctrines, denominations, and opinions about the Bible all using actual scriptures for verification?

• Gifts from God A collection of Bible studies

• The Temple of God What exactly does it mean to be the temple of God?

• A Collection of Salvation Scriptures What does the Bible say about salvation? Can you lose it?

• The Body of Christ A collection of Bible studies  Plus these studies:

  • Aspens and the Body of Christ How do aspen trees resemble the Body of Christ?  (Article 18)

  • Another Position Filled in the Body of Christ Taking authority and doing a job  (Article 11)

• Trinity:  God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, How Can They Be One? A study on the Trinity

• Faith A collection of Bible studies  Plus these:

  • Nothing Wavering How much faith does it take to see miracles happen?  (article 8)

  • Let God and Let God! Letting God do what He's best at doing  (article 14)

  • God Pushed Me We have to learn how to trust Him

• Holiness (also listed under articles)

  • A Call to Holiness  Is it possible to get to the place where we no longer sin?

  • Holiness Scriptures and quotes from various people

• Praise and Thanksgiving A collection of Bible studies

• How to Bind and Loose Does binding satan tie him to someone or something or does it tie him up so he can't move? Is loosing satan actually freeing him to do more or is it separating him from a situation or a person? Draw your own conclusions after reading these scriptures

• Have the Gifts Been Done Away? (Does God Speak to Us Today?)  Some churches are teaching that there are no spiritual gifts  (article 19)

  • The Gifts of the Spirit The actual scriptures that list the gifts

• It's All about Love A collection of Bible studies

  • Love Is I AM Learn how to love the way God loves

• Why Does God Allow Evil? Why doesn't God stop things from happening?  Why do bad things happen?   (article 15)  Plus these studies:

  • The Results of Choices   What can you say to someone who says God doesn't exist?

  • The Weaver   A poem that helps us understand why God allows things to happen

  • Song of Hope   Don't get in the way of what God is doing

• What is God's Will?  A collection of Bible studies

• What's on the Altar?  What can we give to God?  (article 13)

• Think on These Things  Things that don't fit in the other categories of the weekly Bible studies

• Word Studies

  • Overcomer

  • Word (of God)

  • Faith/love Love/faith

  • God's Word

• What Exactly is Crucifixion?  None of us have ever seen someone crucified. What exactly happens? What did Jesus suffer for us?

• The Power in the Word of God   The Word penetrates even the hardest heart (Article 4)

• God Made Pastors AND Prophets  God has placed pastors and prophets together to edify the Body of Christ

• God's Promises If God cannot tell lies then what do you think you can do with His promises?  (Article 9)

  • Promises From the Bible A partial list of the promises from the Bible

• The Wisdom of God We get our wisdom from God and don't need to prove anything to men

• The Anvil- -God's Word  Just as anvils wear out hammers the Bible wears out its critics
  
  

  STUDIES WITH A JEWISH SLANT by Billye Jeane Mercer

• God's Appointed Feasts: Introduction to Feasts

  • Feasts (Index)

    • Shabbat/Sabbath

    • Purim

    • Shavuot/passover/Feast of Weeks/Feast of Harvest

    • Passover

      •   Hag Hamatzot/The Feast of Unleavened Bread

    • Rosh Hashana/The Feast of Trumpets

      •   Days of Awe/Yamim Noraim

  • Jewish Holiday Calendar

  • Chart of Holidays

  • Holiday Foods and Eating

• The "U" in Yeshua Jesus love "U"

• Turn or Burn: Jonah the Reluctant Prophet Learning a lesson from Jonah

• Suluum Yakov... Jacob's Ladder How Jacob's ladder relates to us today

• The Voice from the Whirlpool  God gets our attention in funny ways

• Silver Plated Christians What is the state of our inner man?

• The Alabaster Box and Me on the Sea of Galilee A rock, a song, and the Sea of Galilee

  • Alabaster Box by CeCe Winans The lyrics

• Holy Ground... Israel the Holy Land! Invisible sanctuaries in our lives

• Looking for the "o" in G-D! Why a hyphen instead of an "o"?

  • The Hebrew Alphabet

• Aliyah...Going Up   The 24th Psalm

• David vs. Goliath at the Valley of Elah Winning battles in the secret place

• The Ancient Hebrew Culture Helping you to understand the scriptures

• Star of David? Information about the Star of David

• What Is This Evil Eye? What does it mean?

• The Columbia and the Torah A Torah goes into outer space

  • Torah Scroll   Pictures and information about Torah scrolls

• Torah Scroll   Information about the Torah and pictures

• Lord, Behold Their Threatenings Jesus came to fulfill prophecy

• Mourner's Prayer and Shema

• Butchers and Shepherds Are you driven or led?

• Footprints of Faith Our heroes of faith
  
  

  TIME WITH GOD by Pat Chappel

• Clothed in His Glory God adores you

• God's Desire What does He want from you?

• You Are More Precious Can God be even more precious?

• Holy Ground Not what you thought it was

• Love Stories Stories of love from the book of Mark

• Jewels in the Throne Room Did you know you are a precious jewel to God?
  
  

  SIMPLE AND ENCOURAGING BIBLE STUDIES by Joanne Lowe

• From the Heart of God There are a bunch of them!
  
  

  PRECIOUS TESTIMONIES: Any testimony that shows how God touches lives is precious

  CHARTS AND LISTS: Studies on Biblical Topics

• 12 Tribes or 13? Why do people talk about the 12 tribes of Israel when there were 13?

• Names of God God has many names for a reason. We can use them as we pray or as we read our Bibles and "personalize" God

• Scriptures for Husbands and Wives What does God want to say to husbands and wives?

• Promises From the Bible A partial list of the promises from the Bible

• The Gifts of the Spirit The actual scriptures that list the gifts

• A Collection of Salvation Scriptures What does the Bible say about salvation? Can you lose it?

• How to Bind and Loose Does binding satan tie him to someone or something or does it tie him up so he can't move? Is loosing satan actually freeing him to do more or is it separating him from a situation or a person? Draw your own conclusions after reading these scriptures

• Who Was That Woman? A woman anointed Jesus with oil. Was it one woman and one occurrence, or was it two? Who was the woman? Was she a prostitute? Here is what the Bible says

• Abraham's Forefathers All of Abraham's forefathers back to Noah were alive when he was born. Check out this chart!

• Kings of Israel and Judah The kings of Judah and of Israel... which were good and which were bad? Are you confused? This chart might help

• 315 Messianic Prophecies

• Jewish Holiday Calendar

• The Hebrew Alphabet

• Great Learning Tools Mnemonics, Acronyms, and Other Things Worth Remembering. Some things to write in the front pages of your Bible because they are helpful, or good to share, or just simple ways to explain hard concepts
  
  

  GOD MADE... What a Wonder This Universe Is!

• Northern Lights - Beauty from God God put some beautiful things here for us to enjoy! The Northern Lights are some of the most spectacular!

• The Wonders of God's Universe God's universe is a truly amazing thing! Here are some pictures taken by the Hubble Telescope of parts of God's creation

• There Is No God If there is no God then why...?
  
  

  TEACHING TOOLS AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Hints for Pastors, Teachers, and Church Leaders from a God Seeker  You may not realize some simple things that people don't know

• Bible Tools :

  • Bible Dictionary

  • Concordance

  • Topical Bible

• Break the Chain Stop rumors and find out the truth

• Christian Links Web pages categorized by topic

• Jewish Holiday Calendar

• Myths Taught About the Bible

• Great Learning Tools Mnemonics, Acronyms, and Other Things Worth Remembering
  
  

  CLEVER, HUMOROUS , AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING THINGS
NOTE:  the humorous stuff also has some serious things mixed in

• Quotable Quotes Good stuff people have said

• Believe It! Some amazing stories that have been verified as being true

• Bless My Computer Why should God bless a box filled with electronic parts?

• A Really Cool Clock Somebody sent me this in an email. How did they do that? (You need to view it in Internet Explorer for it to work)

• Pearls of Wisdom

• Funny Stories and More

• Cartoons and Such

• Church Bulletin Bloopers

• True Stories

• Humor Me: Things Kay Likes

• One Liners   Humorous and serious things mixed together

• Does the Bible Really Say That? There are lots of silly sounding things in the Bible

• Short Jokes

• Jewish Holiday Calendar (In Billye Jeane's Jewish Insights section)

• My Cyber-House When the weekly Bible studies first started Kay also had some fun and created a home on the net with adopted cyber-pets and all sorts of fun stuff

• One Nation Under God Our nation and its roots in God

• Christian One Liners  Serious humor
  
  

  MISCELLANEOUS

• About Kay Want to know more about your hostess?  Here's the place

  • Photo Album Pictures of me, my family, my pets, and more

  • Kay's Heavenly Web Design Yep, that's me.  I have my own web design business.

• Clarion Call Authors There are a lot of different people who have contributed to the Clarion Call. Here's a list of everyone

• New Things What's new at the Clarion Call?

• What is a Clarion? Information on the musical instrument, the clarion

• Awakenings in the Wild A photo gallery of beautiful pictures by my friend, Sue

• Graphics for Linking Here are some graphics you can use to link to the Clarion Call

• KSGN, My Favorite Public Radio Station You can listen, too, if you like

• Guestbook Here's where you can leave me a message and read the new entries

• Read Guestbook All the old guestbook entries

• Email Me   There isn't a guestbook right now, but you can send me email

• Fonts If you want to see the pages the way they were designed to be seen you can get the fonts here

• Praising Wall Post your praises here

• Helpful Hints Just a few things I've learned. One about getting a ring off a swollen finger has been especially useful to me

• Bad stuff Warnings about companies that are unethical and definitely un-Christian-like.  Hopefully there won't be any more
  
  

  INDEXES FOR DIFFERENT SECTIONS

• Archived Words that Were Sent to Mailing List    

• Articles Articles on various topics that God laid on my heart

• Devotionals  

• Interesting Things

• Bible Studies from Weekly Word: By Title -- By Scripture -- By Topic

• Other Bible Studies Studies that were not included in the Weekly Word Bible studies

• Humorous Tidbits Clean humor

• Prose Words assembled in a beautiful fashion, including poetry, prose, Words from God, prophecy, and scripture

• God is Not Asleep God speaks to us today

• Welcome Messages Welcome messages from the weekly Bible studies.  Sometimes there are Bible studies inside them

• Jewish Insights by Billye Jeane Bible studies with a Jewish slant and much more

• Time With God Come to the altar and spend time with God.  A section by Pat Chappel

• From the Heart of God Joanne Lowe is the author of these wonderful studies

• Guns and Garters Kay 's husband is now an actor!  Go check it out...his name is "Shiny"