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James Watkins: Hope & Humor

Encouragement and entertainment from award-winning author

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
      • What we haven’t learned from 9/11
    • My statement on Dr. Dennis E. Hensley
  • Book excerpts
    • Breaking habits before they break you
    • Changing lives for nearly 600 years!
      • Exclusive interview with Thomas a Kempis
      • Forty days of imitating Christ
    • 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’
    • Seven reasons God may not be answering our prayers
    • Study guide for God, I Don’t Understand
    • The Christmas story in chronological order
    • Why? Why? Why?
    • Writing with Banana Peels
    • Writing with Banana Peels: excerpt
  • Cartoons
    • 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
  • Talks
  • 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

Health

sexual identity crisis
Health Relationships Sexuality 

#5: Coming out: my sexual identity crisis

March 17, 2021March 21, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments coming out, homosexuality, LGBTQ, sexual-identity crisis

Hi, I’m Jim. It’s time for me to “come out” and admit my struggle with my sexual self-identity. At grade

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I'm a mess. You're a mess.
Health Hope Relationships Spirituality 

I’m a mess. You’re a mess.

January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 jameswatkins 3 Comments depression, hot mess, I'm a mess, mental health, mess, Messiah

Listen or read At a conference, I shared that this “award-winning author” and “globe-trotting speaker” is a great, big, slobbering

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pro pro life
Health Issues Spirituality 

Pro-life from womb to tomb

January 22, 2021February 4, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments abortion, Black Lives Matter, capital punishment, euthanasia, from womb to tomb, pro-life and, prolife and

As one who considers himself “pro-life,” I’m concerned that many in the “Right To Life” movement may not be as

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How the WHO Stole Christmas
Health Holidays Hope Humor 

How the WHO stole Christmas

November 27, 2020April 2, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments

Watch the video Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot. But the World Health Organization did not. This

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Hope for suicidal thoughts
Health Hope 

Hope and help for suicidal thoughts

July 26, 2020January 2, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Do those who commit suicide go to heaven? suicidal thoughts, hope and help, suicide

The National Center for Health Statistics recently reported that the suicide rate across the U.S. increased 35% between 1999 and

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Gay Pride parade
Health Issues Sexuality Spirituality 

It’s about obedience, not ‘orientation’

June 14, 2020January 27, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments church, controversy, homosexuality, LBGTQ, orientation

In my humble opinion, most conservative churches have it wrong in their response to LGBTQ issues. They have spent their

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Ages Anonymous
Health Hope How To Humor Issues Relationships Spirituality 

Welcome to Agers Anonymous

April 30, 2020March 1, 2021 jameswatkins 4 Comments aging, becoming old, comedy, humor, If You're Not Dead, James N. Watkins, You're Not Done

Hi, I’m Jim. Welcome to Agers Anonymous. This is my brand-new support group, based on my brand-new book, If You’re

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COIVD, corona virus prayer
Health Hope Spirituality 

Top ten ways God may be working COVID-19 for good

April 2, 2020April 2, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments coronas virus, COVID-19, Romans 8:28, working for good

Watch video I have in my right hand, direct from my home office in Corn Borer, Indiana, today category: Top

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boy with mask covid
Health Hope Issues 

For kids: Calming COVID-19 concerns

April 2, 2020April 2, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments coronavirus, COVID-19, fear, kids, talking to children about

Watch video Hey kids! Nearly every generation has faced some kind of worldwide health crisis. I’ve survived two of them,

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What would Jesus say about corona virus
Health Hope Issues 

What would Jesus say about COVID-19?

April 2, 2020April 2, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments coronavirus, COVID-19, hope, What would Jesus say about

Watch video During the time of Jesus, leprosy, cholera, tuberculosis, smallpox and dysentery suppressed life expectancy to the age of

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Overcoming Fear and Worry
Health Spirituality 

Overcoming fear and worry

April 28, 2019December 30, 2020 jameswatkins 0 Comments overcoming fear, overcoming worry, peace of mind

From the book cover: War, politics, finances, health concerns, job loss. Is your blood pressure rising yet? Troubling issues bombard

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Health Hope Relationships Spirituality 

If a friend is thinking about suicide . . .

January 2, 2019January 2, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments hope and help, My friend is thinking about suicide, suicide

This page attempts to answer: • Is it normal to want to just die? • Will these feelings go away?

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Worry
Health Spirituality 

You may be depressed if . . .

July 5, 2018April 10, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Christians and depression, Signs of, symptoms of

While at a recent writer’s conference, five or six us started talking about depression. We went around the table. “I’m

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Alzheimers
Health Hope Relationships Spirituality 

All’s not lost with Alzheimer’s

January 2, 2018March 8, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Alzheimer's disease, hope, If You're Not Dead, Is not gone, The Best of You, You're Not Done

And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is

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Emojis
Health Hope 

Emotions real, but not reality

June 17, 2016February 11, 2021 jameswatkins 10 Comments dealing with, depression, emotions, fear, sadness

During the American Civil War, the Confederate Navy filled Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico with mines, which at

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Balanced rocks
Health How To 

Hope for balance in life

March 23, 2015January 10, 2021 jameswatkins 7 Comments balanced life, finding balance, keeping your balance

If I hear another pastor, teacher or speaker proclaim, as if from Mount Sinai, “Put God first, your family second,

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Scream-Edvard-Munch
Health Hope Humor 

Sure beats a kidney stone!

March 2, 2015January 10, 2021 jameswatkins 3 Comments pain, perspective, purpose

Everyone needs to have a kidney stone once in his or her lifetime. Preferably, the sooner the better. You see,

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Euthanasia
Health Hope Issues Spirituality 

What about euthanasia’s ‘death with dignity’?

October 21, 2014January 11, 2021 jameswatkins 3 Comments death with dignity, euthanasia, immoral, mercy killing, moral

Twenty-nine-year-old Brittany Maynard plans to die on Saturday, November 1, 2014. Maynard was diagnosed with grade II Astrocytoma, a severe

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Laughing Jesus
Health Spirituality 

God as ‘comedy’ writer

September 17, 2014March 31, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments comedy, humor

I’m teaching a humor-writing class based on Writing with Banana Peels at the Maranatha Christian Writers Conference. God is the

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Hi, I’m James (call me Jim) Watkins and all you really need to know about me is that I’m an author, speaker and clinically depressed soul who, by God’s grace, writes encouraging and entertaining books, articles and online posts. Isn’t that crazy?!

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Hope: Hi, I’m Jim. I have clinical depression


Humor: Yep, I’m Intolerant!

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