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James Watkins: Hope & Humor

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    • 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
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    • 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
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    • ‘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

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Top ten posts of 2020

January 1, 2021January 10, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments

I have in my right hand, direct from my home office in Corn Borer, Indiana, today’s category: Top ten posts

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Holidays Relationships Spirituality 

Top ten lessons from 2020

December 27, 2020December 27, 2020 jameswatkins 0 Comments hope and humor, James Watkins, Lessons from Covid-19, top ten lessons, top ten list

Photo: March 2020 Hunter-gatherer returns from early morning hunt for elusive prey, the toiletus papyrus. I have in my sanitized

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mental health
Health Hope How To Humor Issues Relationships Sexuality Spirituality Writing 

Enjoy encouragement, entertainment, endorphins

November 26, 2020November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments

Welcome to hope and humor! Brain imaging has revealed laughter produces natural opiates which promote a sense of euphoria and

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Aluminum Christmas tree
Holidays Issues Relationships 

We wish you a PC Christmas

November 25, 2020November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Christmas, Christmas comedy, Christmas humor, PC Christmas, Politically-correct holidays

I have in my right mitten, direct from my home office in the frozen wasteland of Corn Borer,Indiana, this month’s

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Polarization
Issues Relationships 

The strain of polarization

October 1, 2020April 1, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments black and white thinking, partisan politics, polarization

America is feeling the strain of polarization. In developmental psychology, the ability to see a wide range of good and

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Racist comment
Issues Relationships Spirituality 

‘White Christian’ responds to charge of racism, supremacy

May 27, 2020January 21, 2021 jameswatkins 2 Comments Christian, Christian racists, Jesus, white supremacist

I am furious—and brokenhearted—after receiving this comment on my website: White. Christians. Not. Only. Support. Trump. They. Support. White. Police.

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Despair
Relationships Spirituality 

Where are You God?

May 22, 2020April 1, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments depsair, doubt, loss, Where are you God?

Where are You God? Learning to Trust When Times Are Tough is a 365-day devotional and journal to which I

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Graduation advice
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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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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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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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Steve Winwood, Higher Love
Relationships Spirituality 

There must be higher love

January 1, 2018January 3, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Higher Love, Is there a higher love, love

Remember the 1986 hit song “Higher Love”? English rocker Steve Winwood won two Grammy awards singing: Think about it, there

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sex education
How To Relationships Sexuality 

Talking to your kids about s-e-x

March 29, 2015March 29, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments parents, sex education, start young

I’ve always believed that sex education needs to begin as soon as you bring that little bundle of joy home

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granda-and-grandaughters
Relationships Spirituality 

Becoming like little children

February 16, 2015January 2, 2021 jameswatkins 2 Comments

I’m turning 63 today. Old enough to draw Social Security while it’s still around and young enough to enjoy life

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Hope Relationships Spirituality 

God has a plan for new year

December 30, 2014November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 1 Comment Does God know the future?, God is in control?, God's guidance, God's will, Is God in control?, providence

The tabloids are no longer making their outrageous predictions for the New Year. (Perhaps my mocking of their dismal record

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Donald James Watkins
Relationships Spirituality 

Top ten things my dad taught me

November 8, 2010March 30, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments dad, fathers, Fathers Day, humor, top ten list

November 2010 I have in my right hand, direct from my home office in Corn Borer, Indiana, today’s category: top

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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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