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James Watkins: Hope & Humor

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James Watkins: Hope & Humor

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    • About ARTICLES
    • About BOOKS
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    • 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
    • 7 reasons God may not be answering our prayers
    • Breaking habits before they break you
    • Changing lives for over 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’
    • 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

Hope

pen and darkness
Health Hope Writing 

Writing in the Dark

July 20, 2020July 21, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments authors, depression, overcoming depression, without inspiration, writers, writing

Hi, I’m Jim. I have clinical depression. That’s probably a bit of a shock to those who know me simply

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Dare to be Ordinary
Hope Issues Spirituality 

Dare to be ordinary

July 5, 2020December 27, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments amazing grace, Benny Hinn, extraordinary, Joel Osteen, motivation, Napolean Hill, optimism, ordinary, Oswald Chambers, realism, Stephen Freeman, Tony Robbins, Vince Lombardi

From motivational posters and speakers to “positive thinking” and prosperity preaching, we’ve been taught that we can have whatever we

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Holy Spirit, Spirit-filled
Hope Spirituality 

Living a Spirit-filled life

May 23, 2020March 31, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments

Today, churches celebrate God’s Spirit being freely poured out on the early church: Pentecost Sunday. Prior to this, God’s Spirit

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Graduation advice
Hope How To Humor Relationships 

Top ten things you won’t hear at commencement

May 17, 2020March 30, 2021 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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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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Samson and Deliah
Hope Spirituality 

Son of a saint!

March 29, 2020March 29, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments hope, parenting, prodigal children, Samson

When godly parents have not-so-godly children Then Manoah prayed to the Lord: “O Lord, I beg you . . .

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Mr. Rogers has a bad day in neighborhood
Hope Humor 

Mr. Rogers’ ‘Terrible day in neighborhood’

November 24, 2019March 30, 2021 jameswatkins 2 Comments bad day in neighborhood, comedy, humor, Mr. Rogers

I’m sure that even Mr. Rogers had one of those days: It’s a terrible day in the neighborhood, A terrible

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God I Don't Understand
Hope Spirituality 

God, I don’t understand . . .

September 30, 2019December 31, 2020 jameswatkins 0 Comments God I don't understand, unanswered prayer, unfulffilled promises, unpunish

. . . unanswered prayer. . . . unfulfilled promises. . . . unpunished evil. You’re not alone if you’re

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Worry
Hope How To Spirituality 

Overcoming fear and worry: excerpt

April 1, 2019April 1, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments fear, overcoming, worry

Introduction Hi. I’m Jim. I’m a recovering worrier, who has been worry-free for over forty years now. Well, not in

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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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God I Don't Understand
Hope Spirituality 

Why? Why? Why?

December 31, 2018December 31, 2020 jameswatkins 2 Comments God I don't understand, Psalms of Asaph, unanswered prayer, unfulfilled promises, unpunished evil

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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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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Howard Beale: Made prophet of the airwaves
Hope Issues Spirituality 

To angry voters . . .

November 1, 2016January 15, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments anger, election, hate, rhetoric

This classic rant sounds straight from Election 2020: I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things

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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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