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Welcome to the weekly Prison Pulpit series here on the China Compass podcast! I'm your China travel guide in exile, Missionary Ben. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I share a new Chinese city to adopt in prayer every single day. Email anytime: bfwesten AT gmail dot com And for everything else, including our ministry page, substack, books & more, please visit PrayGiveGo.us

On today’s Prison Pulpit podcast, which I am recording at the end of “International Religious Freedom Day”, we look at a handful of difficult situations involving persecution that are happening in various parts of the world today, including Turkey, China, Russia, and more, of course always “remembering” to pray!

Why the Prison Pulpit? 

The goal for these past two years has been to remind Christians to pray for our persecuted brethren as Hebrews 13:3 clearly encourages us to do: “Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them.” Pastor Wang Yi, who is currently in prison, and the late Richard Wurmbrand have been our prison guides. 

Two Day Raid on Underground Church

https://www.vomcanada.com/cn-2026-10-01b.htm

Book of the Week: 

Unbeaten: My Arrest, Interrogation, and Deportation from China: Unbeaten.vip

Pray for China Cities of the Week (Oct 26-31):

https://chinacall.substack.com/p/pray-for-china-oct-26-31-2026

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Is there a literary structure that helps unlock the book of Daniel?

In this episode, Jay Rogers explains how Daniel uses Hebrew patterns of parallelism, recapitulation, and chiasm to organize its message. Daniel 2–7 forms one chiasm in Aramaic, while Daniel 8–12 forms another in Hebrew, with the prophecy of the Messiah being cut off at the center.

By seeing Daniel’s structure, readers can better understand how the visions fit together and why the book points to Christ’s victorious kingdom coming during the days of the Roman Empire.

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Is artificial intelligence replacing teachers while Republicans push for more government involvement in education? On today's Sentinel Report, Alex Newman examines the future of American education with Classical Conversations CEO Robert Bortins, while reflecting on the extraordinary legacy of Bible translator William Tyndale 500 years after his groundbreaking work.

Also: Alberta pushes back against Ottawa, the WHO seeks more money and influence, Communist China promotes its Global Governance Initiative, and the Supreme Court leaves controversial taxpayer-funded transgender prison policies in place.

Plus, explosive corruption allegations rock Virginia as an 82-year-old Democratic Senate leader faces federal racketeering and drug-trafficking charges. In Florida, the mayor of Kissimmee faces corruption allegations of her own. Is accountability coming?

Today's guests:

Robert Bortins — the CEO of Classical Conversations — to discuss how the rich have more children — and why you should too!

Sen. Shane Jett — Oklahoma state senator and Freedom Caucus founding chairman —on Canada's war against free speech and how the same threat faces America.

Terry Newsome — Parents Involved in Education Illinois chapter president and host of Behind Enemy Lines — on the SPLC persecuting concerned parents for fighting porn in schools.

The battle for education, faith, freedom, and the future of civilization is heating up. Don't miss The Sentinel Report with Alex Newman!

Is investing just legal gambling? Not when you're investing in real, growing profits.

David Bahnsen, founder and CIO of The Bahnsen Group, joins Gabe Rench to talk about his new book, Profit From the Profit: The Past, Present & Future of Dividend Growth Investing. They cover the worldview behind investing, why a growing dividend keeps management honest, Apple's cash hoard, Meta's $40B metaverse bet, the SpaceX IPO, and how reinvesting dividends turns market volatility into your friend.

Key takeaways
01:30 What you believe drives how you invest. A theology of wealth creation means growing the pie, not taking someone else's slice.
04:15 Investing vs. gambling: if the intent is zero-sum (I win, you lose), it isn't investing. Investing in real profits lets two people win at once.
07:15 The dividend growth thesis: a company can only grow its dividend year after year if it's growing profits year after year.
12:30 Why Apple and Facebook skipped dividends, and why dividends line management up with shareholders, the owners of the business.
18:20 The returns: focus on yield on original investment. Hold the tree and take the fruit, instead of selling good investments to get paid.
23:30 Betting on Elon: entering SpaceX at a $2 trillion valuation is very different from backing Tesla at $100 million. Quick gains come with the chance of quick losses.
32:40 Volatility is your friend: reinvested dividends buy more shares when prices fall, with no new money and no debt. That's compounding within compounding.
36:00 Can you pick dividend stocks yourself? What to look for: free cash flow, leverage, and management's commitment to the dividend.
38:30 How bad media mergers set billions on fire, and why skipping dividends raises a company's cost of capital.

Chapters
00:00 Welcome and intro
01:30 How belief drives investing
04:15 Investing vs. gambling
07:15 David's dividend growth thesis
09:30 How to find dividend-growing companies
12:30 Why Apple and Facebook skipped dividends
18:20 What returns dividend growth investing delivers
23:30 Betting on Elon and the SpaceX IPO
30:20 Pride, arrogance and staying on top
32:40 Why volatility is your friend
36:00 Can you pick dividend stocks yourself?
38:30 How bad media mergers set billions on fire

About our guest
David L. Bahnsen is the founder, managing partner and chief investment officer of The Bahnsen Group, a wealth management firm of about $11 billion. He writes the weekly Dividend Cafe and is the author of The Case for Dividend Growth (2019) and Profit From the Profit (Post Hill Press, 2026), a national bestseller.
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Was Jesus Christ merely a great teacher, prophet, or moral example—or is He truly God?

In this episode of Take Heart, Cory Wing examines the biblical evidence for the deity of Jesus Christ, His claims to divine authority, and why His full humanity and divinity are essential to salvation.

Drawing from John 1, John 8, Colossians 1, Hebrews 4, and the historic Christian creeds, Cory explains why Jesus is not simply someone to admire, but the eternal Son of God, the Creator of all things, and the only Savior of sinners.

Jesus isn't merely a good teacher. He is Lord.

It was a very manly weekend full of manly activities.   Car purchases and hunting trips...and teaching the next generation.

LATER: Why it's weird to post gym selfies, and how to spot a man who didn't have a fatherly role-model. 

On today’s episode, the pugs engage the question: have contemporary Christian forms of spirituality made Christians more or less susceptible to secular, technological formation and manipulation? Tom introduces the topic by discussing Lori Branch’s significant work: Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth. From that introduction, the pugs then delve into a wide range of topics around this theme.

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Welcome to the China Compass Podcast on the Fight Laugh Feast Network and the Christian Podcast Community! 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). Email any questions/comments to bfwesten at gmail dot com and find all our resources @ PrayGiveGo.us!

Today’s podcast begins with a few quick comments about Malaysia’s role in smuggling oil from Iran into China, but the vast majority of our time is spent discussing the relative risks (or not) in visiting China in this day and age. (Hint: The Door is Open and the Risks are Few)

Iran’s Oil Exports to China (via Malaysia) Have Dried Up

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202610222999

Americans could be detained for years in popular travel destination, officials warn

Innocent travelers could face questioning or detention, US State Department advisory warns

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/americans-could-detained-years-popular-travel-destination

US Department of State: Exercise Increased Caution Traveling to China (Level 2)

https://travel.state.gov/en/international-travel/travel-advisories/china.html

Unbeaten: Arrested, Interrogated, Deported

Confronting the Lies (and Laughter) of the Chinese Communist Police

Unbeaten.vip

This week's Pray for China cities (Oct 26-31) will go live on Sun, Oct 25: https://chinacall.substack.com

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Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Talk again soon!