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James Watkins: Hope & Humor

Encouragement and entertainment from award-winning author

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
    • #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
    • 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
  • 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

Hope

Jesus The Last Supper
Holidays Hope Spirituality 

Jesus knew who he was, you can too

March 21, 2022March 21, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments Easter, humility, Maundy Thursday, Passover, self-identity

Jesus certainly practiced what He preached. Mark 9 records the disciples arguing over which of them was the greatest. Sitting

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Lent to Easter resources
Holidays Hope Humor Spirituality 

Easter eggs-pose’

March 21, 2022March 21, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments

Here’s my eggs-clusive eggs-pose’ on Easter eggs. Long before the egg was associated with the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Egyptians

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Praise the Lord and Pass the Pozac
Health Hope How To Humor Spirituality 

Local paper features ‘Praise the Lord and Pass the Prozac’

February 3, 2022February 1, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments anxiety, depression, devotional, Faith A. Watkins, help, hope, humor, prozac

‘Praise the Lord and Pass the Prozac’ Father-daughter duo’s new devotional book, focused on mental illness, the Bible and how

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Online since 1997
Holidays Hope Humor Issues Spirituality 

Top ten posts at Hope&Humor

January 17, 2022February 1, 2022 jameswatkins 0 Comments

II have in my right hand, direct from my home office in Corn Borer, Indiana, the top ten posts at

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

My personal experience with mental illness

January 15, 2022January 15, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments anxiety, bipolar, depression, help, hope, humor, mental health, review

Thanks to WriterKat for her honest post at Medium.com: Mental health issues seem to come with a gift in the

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Holidays Hope Relationships Spirituality 

Have a God-directed New Year!

December 27, 2021January 2, 2023 jameswatkins 2 Comments hope and humor, New Years, predictions, resolutions

• My annual predictions for the New Year My annual predictions for the New Year have been 99 percent accurate

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The 12 Sites of Christmas
Holidays Hope Humor 

The 12 Sites of Christmas

November 2, 2021December 31, 2022 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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Cartoons from If You're Not Dead, You're Not Done!
Health Hope Humor 

Cartoons from ‘If You’re Not Dead, You’re Not Done!’

October 6, 2021February 11, 2022 jameswatkins 0 Comments

If You’re Not Dead, You’re Not Done is my 2021 book on aging with passion, purpose and pizzaz. As they

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James Watkins Hoper
Health Holidays Hope How To Issues Relationships Sexuality Spirituality Writing 

James Watkins: Hoper

September 13, 2021November 7, 2022 jameswatkins 0 Comments

If you need some hope and humor, you’ve come to the right place! Here are over 100 posts full of

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Corona virus hangover
Health Hope How To 

3 ways to recover from ‘Corona hangover’

September 12, 2021January 3, 2022 jameswatkins 0 Comments aftermath, anxiety, consequences, corona virus, COVID, depression, hangover, side effects, stress

Quick COVID resources • For kids: Calming COVID concerns (Text and video) • Top ten ways God may be working

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barren desert
Holidays Hope Spirituality 

Thanks for nothing

September 11, 2021January 1, 2023 jameswatkins 0 Comments

As we approach Thanksgiving Day here in the States, you might be thinking Thanks for nothing! And you wouldn’t be

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9-11 Memorial
Hope Issues Spirituality 

Hope amid horror: remembering 9/11

September 9, 2021November 4, 2022 jameswatkins 0 Comments 9-11-2001, commentary, hope, remembrance, terrorist attacks

September 11, 2001 That date has been burned into our country’s memory along with December 7, November 22, and April

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I'm a Giant Killer!
Hope Spirituality Writing 

Are you listening to Goliath or God?

June 20, 2021July 2, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments giants, Goliath, overcoming, victory

One of my favorite keynote talks is “I’m a Giant Killer” based on the classic story of David and Goliath.

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grief depression
Health Hope Spirituality 

Why? Why? Why?

June 20, 2021July 2, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments God I don't understand, how good God allow evil, unanswered prayer, unfulffilled promises, unpunished evil, why

A three-year-old’s favorite word is why. “Johnny, hold my hand while we cross the street.” “Why?” “Because I don’t want

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Emojis
Health Hope 

Emotions real, but not reality

June 20, 2021July 2, 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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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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