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James Watkins: Hope & Humor

  • About
    • About ARTICLES
    • About BOOKS
    • About CARTOONS
    • About JIM
      • Press page
  • Articles
    • Heavy topics with a light touch
      • Coming out: my sexual identity crisis
      • God is never late—but he sure is slow
      • It Is Well with My Soul: the rest of the stories
      • Top ten Bible verses Donald Trump may want to read
      • Top ten lists
      • What does the Bible really say?
      • What was Paul thinking when he wrote 1 Timothy 2:12?
      • What we haven’t learned from 9/11
    • My statement on Dr. Dennis E. Hensley
  • Book excerpts
    • #3 The Christmas story in chronological order
    • #4: 7 reasons God may not be answering prayers
    • Breaking habits before they break you
    • Changing lives for over 600 years!
      • #5: Forty days of imitating Christ
      • Exclusive interview with Thomas a Kempis
    • Communicate to Change Lives: book and seminars
    • Intimacy with Christ: Beyond Information and Involvement
    • Jesus: His life and lessons . . . on love
    • Jesus: His Life and Lessons Introduction
    • My book list
    • Revised section on ‘Unfulfilled Promises’
    • Study guide for God, I Don’t Understand
    • Why? Why? Why?
    • Writing with Banana Peels
    • Writing with Banana Peels: excerpt
  • Memes
    • A Very Twitter Christmas
    • Cartoon Backups
    • Cartoons from far, far away
    • Cartoons on love, marriage, sex . . .
    • Cartoons on parenthood
    • Cartoons on writing
    • Easter cartoons
    • Facebook cartoons
    • Hope and Ho! Ho! Ho!
    • Hope&Humor cartoons on Dad
    • My predictions for New Year . . .
    • Pro-life cartoons
  • Comedy-drama scripts
  • Events
  • Videos
    • Original music
  • Writer Resources
    • ‘Crossing over’ with the cross
    • ‘I’m a giant killer!’
    • Are authors in their ‘write’ minds?
    • Atomic-powered titles
    • Best time to post on Facebook?
    • Communicate to Change Lives: Using Psychological Appeals
    • Confessions of an author/speaker
    • Don’t become a digital dinosaur
    • Don’t sabotage your writing/speaking career
    • Endear yourself to an editor
    • Freelancing offers freedom ‘real job’ can’t
    • From stage to page: turning messages into manuscripts
    • How to become a million-selling author
    • How to hook today’s Internet users
    • How to prepare a manuscript for publication
    • Inside look at publishing industry
    • Patron saint of freelance writers
    • Quips and quotations on writing
    • Self-publishers and piranhas
    • Seven habits of the purpose-driven writer
    • Seven questions to ask a prospective agent
    • So, you want to write a book?
    • Soaring with eagles, walking with emus
    • Taking Word to Worldwide Web
    • The Ten Creative Commandments
    • Three new ‘must haves’ for today’s writers
    • Writing effective book proposals
    • Your ‘write’ role
The 12 Sites of Christmas
Holidays Hope Humor 

The 12 Sites of Christmas

November 24, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 1 Comment Christmas cartoons, Christmas comedy, Christmas humor, Christmas poetry, Christmas quotes, Christmas videos, St. Nicholas is real, Twelve sites of Christmas

I may not be your “true love,” but I do have some hope and ho! ho! ho! with cartoons, videos

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Top ten posts at James Watkins
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Click for 10 most popular posts . . .

November 23, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments
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Jesus His Life and Lessons
Holidays Spirituality 

#1 The Christmas story in chronological order

November 23, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments

From Jesus: His Life and Lessons Jesus is God from eternity In the beginning was the Word, and the Word

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Raphie-soap-Christmas Story
Issues 

#2: Truly offensive four-letter words

November 23, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments dirty words, four-letter words, what's wrong with

I knew something was wrong the second I said it. While on a speaking tour of Australia, our host had

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Can women preach?
Issues Relationships Spirituality 

#3: 1 Timothy 2:12 What was Paul thinking?!

November 23, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 6 Comments 1 Timothy 2:12, authority, Bible, complementarianism, egalitarian, headship, teach, Timothy, woman, women, women in ministry, women's rights

The apostle wrote, “I do not permit me a woman to teach or have authority over a man. She must

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Star Wars top ten list
Humor 

#4: Top ten lists

November 23, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments comedy, humor, top ten list

I have in my right hand, direct from my home office in Corn Borer, Indiana, today’s categories: • Top five

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Trump waving Bible
Issues 

#5:Top ten Bible verses Donald Trump may want to read

November 23, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments Bible, Donald Trump, reading, top ten list, Trump

March 2016 “Nobody reads the Bible more than me,” the then-presidential candidate claimed in an interview with TheHill.com. Trump also

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Jesus Dead to Life Miracle
Hope Spirituality 

#6: From bad to worse to . . . astonishing

November 23, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 22 Comments

Have you ever noticed that the harder you pray, the worse things get? It seems to be a biblical pattern!

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God I Don't Understand
Hope Issues Spirituality 

#7: 7 reasons God may not be answering prayers

November 23, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments book, disappointment, faith, James Watkins, questions, spirituallity, unanswered prayer, with God

On the kitchen wall in my boyhood home hung a plaque that promised “God Answers Prayer.” Because of those words,

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Romeo and Juliet
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#8: Children who marry their parents . . .

November 23, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments courtship, dating, James Watkins, marriage, psychology of, sex

. . . the psychology of courtship It’s “sweeps” week and the TV talk shows are putting their “Satanic Sibling

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A Charlie Brown Christmas
Holidays Spirituality 

#9: Ten best–and worst–Christmas movies

November 23, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments Best and worst, Best and worst Christmas movies, Christmas movies, Elmo Saves Christmas, Ernest Saves Christmas, Felix The Cat Saves Christmas, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Silent Night Deadly Night

I have in my right mitten, direct from my home office in wintry northern Indiana, tonight’s Top Ten Best—and Worst—Christmas

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A Christmas tree called Shrek
Holidays Humor Uncategorized 

#10: A Christmas tree called Shrek

November 23, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments Charley Brown Christmas, Christmas humor, Christmas trees, Shrek

I’ve been known to name my cars, and even my guitar (“Lois”), but never a Christmas tree—until last year. Christmas

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Bible and rainbow marks
Relationships Sexuality Spirituality 

LGBTQIA+ and B-I-B-L-E

September 26, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 2 Comments Bible, Christian, gay, homosexual, LGBTQ

Homosexuality is one of the most polarizing subjects today in the culture, courts and the church. One extreme pole pickets

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James Watkins Author Advocate
Hope How To Relationships Spirituality Writing 

Publishing is brutal! I’m here to help.

September 26, 2023November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments encourgement, free writers support, help for writers, writing coach, writing help, writing support

Hi. Please call me Jim and I’d love to help through this bloody business of publishing. (We not only have

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Ages Anonymous
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If You’re Not Dead, You’re Not Done

July 31, 2023September 27, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments

Live with Purpose at Any Age James Watkins (Author), Jonny Hawkins (Illustrator), Cec Murphey (Foreword) Your personal odometer may be

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Welcome

Welcome! I’m Jim Watkins and all you really need to know about me is that I’m an author, a speaker and a clinically depressed soul who, by God’s grace, writes encouraging and entertaining books, articles and online posts. Isn’t that just like him?!

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