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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
      • 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

Relationships

grief depression
Health Hope How To Relationships Spirituality 

How do you deal with the death of a family member or a friend?

January 2, 2005January 10, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments dealing with, death, grief, loss, mourning

Here are some excerpts from my book, The Why Files: Is There Really Life After Death?, that I hope will

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Sex cures common cold
Health Relationships Sexuality 

Cure for common cold? Sex!

January 5, 2003January 27, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments colds, sex cures, sex cures colds

Depressed? Have a cold? Suffering from heart disease or even cancer? Researchers are finding that, and I quote, “Sex can

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divorce
Health Humor Relationships 

Top ten reasons I’m not divorcing wife

July 3, 2000January 3, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments divorce bad for health, statistics, studies

I have in my right hand, direct from my home office in Corn Borer, Indiana, the Top Ten Reasons I’m

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Talking to children about war, school shootings, riots, war
How To Relationships 

Talking to children about war, terrorism, school violence

March 29, 2000March 29, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments riots, school shootings, talking to children about, terrorism, war

Dr. Mary Manz Simon, early childhood educator, quotes The Why Files: Is There Really Life After Death? in this important

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Masturbation
Health Relationships Sexuality Spirituality 

The hidden habit: masturbation

February 3, 2000April 1, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments masturbation, sexual tension

It won’t keep you from having children, make hair grow on your palms, or drain off all your energy. And,

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under the sheets
How To Relationships Sexuality 

Three secrets to xxx-ceptional sex: 1

February 3, 2000January 27, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments how to, incredible sex, intercourse

Every single issue of Cosmo promises “red hot,” “toe-curling,” “intense,” “unbelievable” sex. But sex therapist Theodote Rubin warns: Sexual athletics

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white rose
Health Relationships Sexuality Spirituality 

Can I become a virgin again?

February 2, 2000January 27, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments healing, incest, rape, restoration, secondary-virginity, sexual abuse, virgin again, virginity

From The Why Files: When Can I Start Dating? “My friend Kathy needs to talk to you,” Heather almost whispered

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Hope How To Relationships Spirituality 

‘Spray paint’ parenting

June 17, 1999March 30, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments how to, influence, modeling, parenting

Both five-year-old Paul and his bike were banged up after a summer of skids, spills, and “wheel-ies.” So one weekend,

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Barbara Lusk Watkins
Humor Relationships Spirituality 

Top ten things my mom taught me

May 8, 1999March 30, 2021 jameswatkins 1 Comment comedy, humor, Mothers Day, top ten list

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

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Romeo and Juliet
Relationships 

Children who marry their parents: the psychology of courtship

February 2, 1999January 2, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments courship, dating, marriage, psychology of

It’s “sweeps” week and the TV talk shows are putting their “Satanic Sibling Serial Killers Who Dress Like Tramps Reunited

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Bent Out of Shape
Health Issues Relationships Sexuality Spirituality 

Why be bent out of shape by LGBTQ(IA+)?

January 17, 1999June 19, 2022 jameswatkins 0 Comments Christian perspective, homosexuality, LGBTQ

Adapted from The Why Files The late Fred Phelps and his followers became infamous for their picketing with signs declaring,

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Cult characteristics
Issues Relationships Spirituality 

When does a group become a cult?

November 10, 1998April 1, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments

As as our world becomes more and more polarized by race, religion, political beliefs, etc. many groups are taking on

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Mother's Day
Holidays Relationships 

‘Faith of Our Mothers’

March 30, 1993March 30, 2021 jameswatkins 1 Comment Faith of our MOTHERS, mom, mother, Mothers Day

If your church is tired of replacing “Father” with “Mother” for “Faith of Our Mothers” on Mom’s special day, here

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Couple laughing
How To Relationships 

iNo hablo Estrogen! Becoming gender fluent

January 30, 1991February 4, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments

I knew something was wrong the second I said it. While on a speaking tour of Australia, our host had

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Grandjpa and granddaughers
Holidays Issues Relationships 

My ‘real job’

March 30, 1988March 30, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments family, family first, Fathers Day, priority, real job

6:00 a.m.: The clock radio interrupts my sleep with news of a coup in Latin America, a drop in the

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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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