Welcome to this special episode of the China Compass Podcast, #22 in the weekly “Prison Pulpit” series! I'm your China travel guide, Missionary Ben. You can follow me on X (@chinaadventures) where I post daily reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). To learn more about our various ministry endeavors and to get any of the missionary biographies I’ve helped to publish, please visit www.PrayGiveGo.us!

Once again, we turn to the late Richard Wurmbrand to speak to us on behalf of the persecuted church…

First, for those who don't know who Richard Wurmband is, here's a brief intro:

Romanian Lutheran minister / 14 yrs in prison, 3 in solitary confinement / Published ”Tortured for Christ"

Founded Voice of the Martyrs, but son Michael (aka, Mihai) does NOT recommend VOM’s ministry.

Michael Wurmbrand’s VOM “Open Letter”: https://www.billionbibles.com/michael-wurmbrand-vom.html

Michael Wurmbrand’s Ministry (and free books!): https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/

Sermons in Solitary Confinement: Duty Never Ends

Most likely published in the early 1970s, just a few years after he fled Communist Romania…

Read the book for yourself: https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/pdfs/ssc-english.pdf

What follows was taken from “Duty Never Ends”, one of the sermons in Wurmbrand’s book, Sermons in Solitary Confinement. You can read the book for yourself or listen to the audio version of this article on the latest episode of the China Compass podcast. 

https://chinacall.substack.com/p/duty-never-ends

If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend Richard Wurmband’s longer book of prison stories & meditations, In God's Underground: https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/pdfs/IGU-english.pdf

My little book Unbeaten tells the story of my arrest, interrogation, and deportation from China in 2018. One of the appendices, Remember My Chains, is a message I’ve given all over the world about praying for the persecuted church. You can get both the book and the accompanying sermon, at Unbeaten.vip, or read the latter for free on my China Call Substack: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/remember-my-chains

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