Free Resources

Free Downloadable Study Guides

• Hallie’s Heart Discussion Guides
  Chapters 1-7 | Chapters 8-14 | Chapters 15-21
  
  
• Morningsong Discussion Guides
  Chapters 1-4 | Chapters 5-8 | Chapters 9-12 | Chapters 13-16 | Chapters 17-20 | Chapters 21-24 | Chapter 25 (With Scripture)

Free Caregiving Resources

• PTSDTraumaHopeHealing.com
  A new blog managed by Shelly Beach.

• Elder Care Resource List
  
  
• Tips For Sharing Stories With Elderly Loved Ones
  
  
• Lotsahelpinghands.org
  A computer-based program that helps individuals, families, churches, or organizations create a network of caregiving assistance for those in need.
  
  
• Tips For Decision-Making and Compromise
  Excerpted from Ambushed by Grace: Help and Hope on the Caregiving Journey Discovery House Publishers 2008, Used by permission. Family decision-making is almost always more complicated than we hope it will be. The following suggestions can serve as starting points for your road to compromise.
  
  
• http://www.homehealthcareagencies.com/
• http://www.nahc.org/
• http://www.anha.org/
• http://www.skillednursingfacilities.org/
• http://www.adultdaycare.org/
• http://www.aoa.gov/
• http://www.assistedlivingfacilities.org/ 
  
  
• Help For My Life - Caregiving
  
  

  Caregiving: The Need Caregiving: The Need, Part 2 Caregiving: The Fatigue Caregiving: Relational Changes Caregiving: Tough Decisions Caregiving: The Resentment Caregiving: Unfinished Business Caregiving: Combating the Isolation Caregiving: Pitfalls to Avoid Caregiving: The Impact on Marriage Caregiving: The Ratio of Caregivers to Care Receivers

  Caregiving: Should My Parent Move In? Caregiving: Should My Parent Live With Me? Caregiving: Crucial Decisions Caregiving: Emotional Struggles Caregiving: Impact on Children Caregiving: Placing a Loved One in a Care Facility Caregiving: Guilt Caregiving: Planning for Future Care Caregiving: Avoiding Burnout Caregiving: Role of Extended Family

Misc Resources

• Christian Authors’ Network
  I’m proud to be a member of the Christian Authors’ Network. CAN recently kicked off its new email book club, You've Got Books! This free service lets you read the newest works by CAN authors. You can sign up for You've Got Books! fiction and/or You've Got Books! nonfiction. Click here for more information and to sign up.
  
  
• Riverview Conference Center
  Riverview is the site of my annual writers’ conference and is located along the banks of the Cedar River in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
  
  
• Solomon's Abacus
  A free resource for resolving conflicts. Three great ways to use this service are:
  
  1. Evaluate a real or hypothetical situation.
  2. Moderate a situation between two or more disputants.
  3. Learn the biblical point of view on conflict in general.

• Writers’ Resources: On the Craft
• Christian Writers’ Market, Sally Stuart
• On Writing, Stephen King
• Bird by Bird, Anne LaMott
• Traveling Mercies, Anne LaMott
• The Making of a Christian Bestseller, Ann Byle
• Stein on Writing, Sol Stein
• How to Grow a Novel, Sol Stein
• Writing the Breakout Novel, Donald Maass
• The Courage to Write, Ralph Keyes
• The Writers Book of Hope, Ralph Keyes
• The First Five Pages, Noah Lukeman
• The Plot Thickens, Noah Lukeman
• Immediate Fiction, Jerry Cleaver

Must Reads

I can’t pass up an opportunity to encourage great reading. The following books are listed in random order, like the thoughts that often run through my brain. As a disclaimer, this list in no way represents a fraction of the books I’d like to recommend.

Writers’ Resources: On the Craft Christian Writers’ Market, Sally Stuart On Writing, Stephen King Bird by Bird, Anne LaMott Traveling Mercies, Anne LaMott The Making of a Christian Bestseller, Ann Byle Stein on Writing, Sol Stein How to Grow a Novel, Sol Stein Writing the Breakout Novel, Donald Maass The Courage to Write, Ralph Keyes The Writers Book of Hope, Ralph Keyes The First Five Pages, Noah Lukeman The Plot Thickens, Noah Lukeman Immediate Fiction, Jerry Cleaver Fiction A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Lord of the Rings and all things Tolkien The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Non-Fiction Gandhi, Louis Fischer The Singer, Calvin Miller The Hiding Place, Corrie tenBoom The Diary of Ann Frank, Ann Frank Ragamuffin Gospel, Brennan Manning Mere Christianity and all things C.S. Lewis Bondage Breaker, Neil Anderson Changes that Heal, Henry Cloud Inside Out, Larry Crabb What’s So Amazing About Grace? Philip Yancey