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James Watkins: Hope & Humor

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    • 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

Author: jameswatkins

The Imitation of Christ
Relationships Spirituality 

Forty days of imitating Christ

July 31, 2023September 27, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments Christian, devotionals, faith, growth, hope, Imitation of Christ, James Watkins, modern, spiritual, version

Thanks for joining me for 40 devotionals of short excerpts from my book The Imitation of Christ: Classic Devotions in

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AI-generated photo
Writing 

Will AI replace real live authors and artists?

June 23, 2023September 13, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments accurate, AI, artificial intelligence, dangers, inaccuracies, James Watkins, reliable

It’s the lazy days of summer, so I asked bard.google.com to “Write a hopeful and humorous 500-word essay for Christians.”

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Praise the Lord and Pass the Prozac
Health Hope How To Humor Relationships Spirituality 

Praise the Lord and Pass the Prozac

June 21, 2023September 30, 2023 jameswatkins 3 Comments anxiety, biblical, bipolar, depression, devotional, devotions, Faith A. Watkins, Faith Watkins, hope, hopeful helpful, humor, humorous, inspiration, James Watkins, mental health, prozac, Prozac store, PTSD

My latest book, Praise the Lord and Pass the Prozac, is co-authored by my favorite daughter, Faith A. Watkins. It

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perfect love
Relationships Spirituality 

How to find love

June 18, 2023August 21, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments find love, Looking for love, real love

Many people spend their lives, as the old song goes, “Lookin’ for love in all the wrong places." So, how

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Spirituality 

Action-figure Jesus

June 16, 2023August 21, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments love, obedience, peace, the real Jesus

If you’re turned off by Jesus, you’re probably confusing him with some ultra-conservative caricature. (Excerpted from The Why Files: Are

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Connecting with Christ podcast
Hope Relationships Spirituality 

Resources for connecting with Christ

June 15, 2023August 21, 2023 jameswatkins 2 Comments Brother Lawrence, Catholic mystics, Intimacy with Christ, Jesus Christ, relationships, sequel to The Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis

Most churches do very well in sharing information and fairly well in providing opportunities for involvement. However, according to Willow

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Uncategorized 

Hope for friends in path of Hurricane Idalia

June 1, 2023September 21, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments

First, the deadly Hawaiian wildfires, then the deluge—and earthquake—in California. Now major huricanne in Flodia! Here are some posts you

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Graduation advice
Hope How To Humor Relationships 

Top ten things you won’t hear at commencement

May 28, 2023May 29, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments advice, comedy, commencement, graduation, humor

Ever since Pebbles and Bam Bam graduated from Bedrock High, commencement speakers have been telling the crowd of cap and

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Happy Mother's Day
Holidays Humor Relationships Spirituality 

Happy Mothers’ Day!

May 7, 2023May 7, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments hope, humor, Mothers Day

Here are my favorite columns and cartoons for these amazing people called “Mom.” Have a great day! • Faith of

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mental health
Health Hope 

Hope and mental health

May 1, 2023May 7, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments anxiety, Christianity, church, depression, hope and humor, mental health

May is “Mental Health” month, so “Hi, I’m Jim. I struggle with mental health issues.” Yep, I have clinical depression,

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Hope Spirituality 

God is never late—but he sure is slow

April 10, 2023April 13, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments late, why, Why is God late? God

As a child, I got the idea from story books that the Bible was God’s promise book. Not ordinary promises

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Asbury Revival 2023
Hope Relationships Spirituality 

Asbury University revival resources

February 11, 2023February 12, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments Asbury revival, Asbury University, faith, growing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, knowi God, relationship with God, revival

As an old “Jesus Freak” from the 70s “Jesus Movement,” I’ve been praying and waiting all my life to see

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Love
Humor Issues Relationships Sexuality Spirituality 

Love, marriage, sex . . .

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023 jameswatkins 2 Comments love, marriage, relationships, sex, sexuality

Welcome to my annual salute to love, marriage and sex. If you’re single, dating, engaged, married, divorced, widowed or “it’s

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Squeezing Good Out of Bad
Hope How To Humor Spirituality 

Freshly squeezed: Good Out of Bad

January 13, 2023January 20, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments

Happy sixteenth birthday, Squeezing Good Out of Bad! Yikes! It’s hard to believe that Squeezing Good Out of Bad is

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Thanksgiving Norman Rockwell
Holidays Hope Spirituality 

Will Thanksgiving suck like a turkey baster?!

November 1, 2022November 24, 2023 jameswatkins 2 Comments not thankful, thanks for nothing, thanksgiving

If you are following the news, it doesn’t look like there’s much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving: The deadly

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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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Sit-down comedy from brand new book: If You’re Not Dead, You’re Not Done!


“I’m Jim. I have clinical depression.” An honest, hopeful look at depression

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