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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
    • #3 The Christmas story in chronological order
    • #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
    • Why? Why? Why?
    • Writing with Banana Peels
    • Writing with Banana Peels: excerpt
  • Memes
    • 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

Holidays

Advent Hope
Holidays 

Christmas brings hope in a hand basket

December 20, 2020November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments

It’s so easy to believe “the world is going to hell in a hand basket.” Just click on your favorite

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St. Lucia Day Christmas trivia
Holidays 

Test your Christmas trivia skills

December 13, 2020November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments

Take out a clean sheet of paper and a number 2 pencil. It’s time for the Hope and Humor Christmas

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Holidays 

Yes, Virginia, there really was a St. Nick

December 6, 2020November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Christmas humor, Is Santa Claus real?, Saint Nick is real, St. Nicholas is real

Yes, Virginia, there really was a St. Nicholas! But forget that sugary-sweet essay from The New York Sun. (Yikes, my

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Black Friday Shopping Made Easy
Holidays 

Christmas shopping made easy!

November 30, 2020December 20, 2020 jameswatkins 0 Comments

It’s Cyber Monday and here are some gifts ideas that are the right color, the right size and pack easily

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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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Piles of Christmas gifts
Holidays Humor 

Top ten signs you’ve spent too much money on Christmas presents

November 26, 2020November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Christmas, debt, materialism, spending

Direct from my home office in snow-swept Corn Borer, Indiana, I have in my bright red mitten: Top ten signs

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Lamb of God
Holidays Spirituality 

Lamb of God: a ewe-nique Christmas story

November 26, 2020November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Christmas, Christmas monologue, Christmas Story, Lamb of God, sacrifice, sacrificial lamb

Shalom. I’m one of the elite sheep of Judea. Not just any sheep can belong to this sheepfold. We’re selected

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The Light of the World
Holidays Spirituality 

Merry Christmas quotations

November 26, 2020November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Christmas quotations, Christmas quotes, Holiday quotations, inspiration

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things—not the great occasions—give off the greatest glow of

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Fruitcake for the Soul
Holidays Spirituality 

Fruitcake for the soul

November 26, 2020November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Christmas, Christmas poetry, Christmas reading, Fruit Cake for the Soul, Fruitcake for the Soul, Inspirational, Kmart, Macys

Pour a cup of hot chocolate, turn on the tree, and enjoy some sweet and some nutty Christmas poetry and

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A Charlie Brown Christmas
Holidays Spirituality 

Ten best–and worst–Christmas movies

November 25, 2020November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Best and worst, Best and worst Christmas movies, Christmas movies, Elmo Saves Christmas, Ernest Saves Christmas, Felix The Cat Saves Christmas, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Silent Night Deadly Night

I have in my right mitten, direct from my home office in wintry northern Indiana, tonight’s Top Ten Best—and Worst—Christmas

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Mary-Annunciation
Holidays Spirituality 

Mary, Did We Know?

November 25, 2020November 23, 2022 jameswatkins 0 Comments announcement, Did You Know, Mary, Mary the Mother of Jesus, Mary's reaction to, The Annunciation

We don’t know what Mary was thinking when the angel proclaimed an outrageous proposition. Perhaps . . . “Greetings, you

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Introverted Christmas
Holidays How To 

Have yourself an introverted Christmas

November 25, 2020December 6, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Christmas, Christmas stress, How to Survive, Introverts, overcoming

While most people thrive on the holiday hustle and bustle of parties, crowded malls and family gatherings, we introverts would

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Santa on naughty list
Holidays Humor 

Top ten reasons Santa on naughty list

November 25, 2020November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Christmas humor, comedy, Santa not role model, Santa on naughty list

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

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The Light of the World
Holidays How To Issues Spirituality 

Putting the X back in Xmas

November 25, 2020November 26, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments The true meaning of Christmas, What does Christmas mean?

At the risk of sounding like “The Grinch,” Ebeneezer Scrooge, and Henry Potter all gift-wrapped into one big “Humbug,” I’d

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Piles of Christmas gifts
Holidays 

Top ten signs you’ve spent too much money on Christmas presents

November 25, 2020November 25, 2021 jameswatkins 0 Comments Christmas top ten list, extravagent spending, top ten lists

Direct from my home office in snow-swept Corn Borer, Indiana, I have in my bright red mitten: Top ten signs

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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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