Hope and humor: encouragement from James Watkins

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HOPE & HUMOR IN 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS ON TWITTER

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Hi, I'm Jim Watkins. Thanks for stopping by! You'll find over 200 articles, book excerpts, columns, devotionals, editorials, humor columns, original music and videos from my sixteen books and over two thousands articles in print, plus some brand new stuff. I trust you do indeed find hope and humor here and that you'll visit often!

"Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well" (Saint John).

topics

• Books • Comedy/drama
• Cultural issues
• Death/dying • Health
• Holidays • Hope • Humor
• Issues • New stuff
• Love • Sex • Spirituality
• Top ten sites
• Writing resources

books

• Characters: Comedies and Dramas

• Communicate to Change Lives

• Squeezing Good Out of Bad

• The Why Files: Are there really ghosts?

• The Why Files: Is there really life after death?

• The Why Files: When can I start dating?

• Writing with Banana Peels: Principles, Practices, and Pratfalls of Writing with Humor

• More

comedy/drama

• Characters: Comedies and Dramas

• Brother Bob Blessing: "Something Lucrative Is Going to Happen to You"

• Pilate (Easter drama)

• Wiseman and Wife (comedy/drama)

cultural issues

• 2012: End of the world?

• Conspiracy theories

• Cults: sects and violence

• Dealing with terrorist attacks (7 articles)

• Dirty words

• Disney's distortions

• Harry Potter: The good, the bad, the muggly

• Living simply, living richly

• New slogans for old "boomers"

• Psychic secrets revealed

• Reality TV: Get real!

• School shootings

• Urban legends

death/dying

• Dealing with death and grief

• Dealing with impending death

• Life's VCR

health

• Aging

• Breaking habits . . . before they break you

• Dark chocolate is good for you!

• Dealing with pain (from Squeezing Good Out of Bad)

• Government spells "heath" with "w"

• "I just want to die" (suicide)

• I'm eight pill bottles old

• Managing your time . . . and sanity

• Top ten things I've learned living with cancer

• WWJD? What would Jesus devour?

• You may be depressed if . . .

holidays

• Christmas (12 articles)

• Easter (10 articles)

• Halloween

• Thanksgiving

humor

• Airline travel

• Are you absolutely sure there are no absolutes?
• Beyond Viagra: What women really want

• The Book of Joe: Feeling rather Job-ish?

• Brother Bob Blessing: "Something Lucrative Is Going to Happen to You"

• Everyone needs a kidney stone

• Faith of Our Mothers

• Finely-aged believers

• It's a Wonderful Life

• My "real" job: Confessions of a stay-at-home dad

• The Papoose-Driven Life

• Pray-o-matic

• Top ten differences between "secretaries" and "administrative professionals"

• Top ten top great things about being in ministry

• Top ten lists

• Top ten signs the staff is stressed out

• Top ten things not to say at airport security

• Top ten things you won't hear at commencement

• Top ten wishes for my 50th birthday

• The Twitter Bible

• What I didn't learn in kindergarten

• "Yep, I'm intolerant"

• You may be a parent . . .if you've ever said one or more of the following

hope

• Encouragement for clergy

• Encouraging quips and quotations

• God is never late . . . but He sure is slow!

• Hope and humor (50 encouraging posts)

• "I'm a giant killer!" keynote talk I'M A GIANT KILLER AUDIO

• Keeping your dreams alive KEEPING YOUR DREAMS ALIVE AUDIO

• Some thoughts on life's tough questions

issues

• Are afterbirth stem cells more effective than unborn stem cells?

• Are you absolutely sure there are no absolutes?

• Are you, Jim, a feminist?

• Capital punishment

• Civil unions

• Does DNA disprove evolution?

• "Everybody Loves Barack"

• Hate crimes

• Homosexuality

• Intolerance

• Iraq War

• Is it a life or a choice?

• "Jumbo shrimp" and "mercy killing" (Euthanasia)

• Osama 'Grinch' Laden

• Planned Bank Robbery

• Prayer in school

• Pro-pro-life

• Taxes: My plot to eliminate IRS

• The Ten Commandments

• Were Founding Fathers "Christian"?

love

• Breaking up without breaking down

• Children who marry their parents: the psychology of courtship

• The Cure for alienation

• Different from the neck up

• Falling in love—and getting back up

• "I Can Hear You Snore" and other realistic love songs

• Looking for love in all the right places

• Marriage vs. same-sex unions

• No hablo, estrogen: becoming bilingual in relationships

• Seven things your guy wishes you knew about him—but doesn't know how to tell you

• Top ten reasons I'm not divorcing my wife

sex

• Cure for common cold: sex

• Guy's guide to cars . . . and sex

• The hang-ups with 'hookups'

• Homosexuality: Why are people so bent out of shape?

• Hormonal Output Toxicity Syndrome (HOTS): Why guys do what guys do

• Porn: Reel vs. real sex

• Three secrets to xxx-ceptional sex

• Why are guys such boobs about breasts?

Spiritual issues

• Angels don't come from Hallmark

• Are there really ghosts?

• Are you eternally in-secure?

• Demons: possession or obsession?

• Genuine Jesus or Counterfeit Christ?

• Encouragement for clergy

• God is never late . . . but He sure is slow!

• God's will' is not lost: for those trying to find it

• Healing: faith or fake?

• It's Sunday . . . but Jesus is Comin'

• "It Is Well with My Soul" The rest of the stories

• Looking for love in all the right places

• Ministry resources for pastors, teachers, Christian leaders

• The Rest of the Bible Story

• Some thoughts on life's tough questions

• "What must I do to inherit eternal life?"

• Women in ministry resources (20+ articles)

• More

top ten sites

August's top ten most popular pages [July]

1. Home page [1]

2. "I just want to die" (suicide) [2]

3. Does DNA disprove evolution? [4]

4. Were United States founding fathers Christian? [3]

5. Top ten reasons I'm not divorcing my wife [5]

6. The hidden habit: masturbation [7]

7. Dealing with death and grief [6]

8. Encouraging quotes [8]

9. "What does the Bible really say?" [12]

10. Conspiracy theories [9]

Glenn Beck's Washington rally proclaimed that "God is the answer," but keep in mind that the talk-show host is a Mormon who believes you, too, can become a god! Beck's "god" is not the answer. (Wednesday, September 1, 2010)
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