The First Time I Went to Prison
I was eighteen at the time. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen that day. The sun was just coming up over the horizon as I was packed...
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Brad Zockoll
- Jan 10
- 3 min
I was embarrassed in front of hundreds of people
I'll be heading to downtown Pickens, South Carolina to meet a coffee shop owner about having weekly Bible studies at their location. I...
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Brad Zockoll
- Jan 6
- 3 min
A reflection back on my academy and college teaching days...
In Bible Leadership class, my eight scholars have been researching the book of Matthew. Yesterday was the day they gave individual...
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Brad Zockoll
- Jan 5
- 2 min
To Glorify God
This is a reprint from my academy teaching days, back in 2014 We have had a special visitor yesterday and today. Bobby McCoy, assistant...
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Brad Zockoll
- Jan 4
- 3 min
Is He coming back?
There were six of us little Zockoll kids, sitting at the kitchen table in a rented house in Dallastown, Pennsylvania. Money was so...
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Brad Zockoll
- Dec 22, 2022
- 7 min
Christmas Countdown #6: An actual fight during the Christmas program
Christmas: It was our little church’s favorite time of the year, but not only for the magnificent opportunity of celebrating the coming...
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Brad Zockoll
- Dec 20, 2022
- 3 min
Christmas Countdown #5: Make a Joyful Noise, and I Do Mean Noise
(I am re-posting this blog from 2014) I wanted to find a new way to share the Christmas story during the Yuletide season, and I realized...
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Brad Zockoll
- Dec 16, 2022
- 2 min
Christmas Countdown #4: The Worst Birthday Party Ever
Years ago, David McCasland wrote an interesting item for the publication Our Daily Bread: “After someone stole a valuable ceramic...
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Brad Zockoll
- Dec 15, 2022
- 4 min
I met one of the Christmas shepherds
“When they (the shepherds) had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, and all who heard it...
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Brad Zockoll
- Dec 14, 2022
- 4 min
The Lesson of the Christmas Banquets
Ah, yes, Christmas banquets. I remember two of them distinctly. And both of them have stuck in my memory indelibly. One was a Cub Scout...
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Brad Zockoll
- Dec 7, 2022
- 5 min
Christmas Countdown #3: The Coming of a Super Hero
Christmas was on its way. I was a determined second grader in Dallastown, Pennsylvania. The cold winter weather was moving in and I...
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Brad Zockoll
- Dec 6, 2022
- 4 min
Christmas Countdown #2: Going Home for Christmas
There have been many memorable parts of my college days, but one of the most unusual and even hilarious events was the annual ritual of...
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Brad Zockoll
- Dec 1, 2022
- 4 min
Christmas Countdown #1: When we least expect it.
This is a re-print from my blog of 2014. “When you least expect it…” When I was writing novels for Focus on the Family publications, the...
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Brad Zockoll
- Nov 30, 2022
- 3 min
From August 2018: How do you pray when you don’t know how to pray?
This was a blog from my academy teaching days. There's a lesson I still wish to remember, and I'd like to share it with you: This is our...
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Brad Zockoll
- Nov 22, 2022
- 4 min
Lessons I Learned While on the Holy Land Tour back in 2018
It is 6 a.m. I am greeted this morning by a a group of quietly smiling elderly tourists in the dining area of the Couvent des Religieuses...
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Brad Zockoll
- Nov 21, 2022
- 6 min
When cancer struck my pastor (part 14) : The Memorial Service of Tom Craig, our Pastor
It’s ten minutes before five on a humid Saturday evening September 6, 2014. In a little over an hour we will have the memorial service...
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Brad Zockoll
- Nov 18, 2022
- 4 min
When cancer struck my pastor (part 13) : Cancer’s Last Battle with Pastor Tom Craig
Earlier this evening I was given the news. They told me right before the church service started. Pastor Tom Craig died. My pastor. My...
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Brad Zockoll
- Nov 16, 2022
- 3 min
When cancer struck my pastor (part 12): The Hollowness of Cancer
This is a re-posting from my blog back in 2014: Our pastor Tom Craig did not show up at church today. For the first time since he was...
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Brad Zockoll
- Nov 15, 2022
- 4 min
When cancer struck my pastor (part 11): The Gentleness of Cancer
This is a reprint of the blog I wrote about my pastor and dear friend Tom Craig, who succumbed to cancer back in 2014: Pastor Tom wasn’t...
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Brad Zockoll
- Nov 14, 2022
- 6 min
When cancer struck my pastor (part 10): Cancer Limits Tom’s Voice but Not His Impact.
This is a reprint of my blog from 2014: “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And...
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