Duty Never Ends, Especially in Solitary Confinement (The Prison Pulpit #22) [China Compass]
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🗓️ 19 March 2025
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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
Follow or subscribe to China Compass on Spotify or Apple or right here on PubTV.
You can also email any questions or comments to contact @ PrayforChina dot us.
And don’t forget to check out everything we are involved in at PrayGiveGo.us. Hebrews 13:3!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this special episode of the China Compass podcast number 22 now in the weekly prison pulpit series. |
| 0:18.5 | I am your China travel guide, missionary bin. |
| 0:20.8 | You can follow me on X at China |
| 0:23.4 | Adventures where I post daily reminders every day, almost every day, every now and then I forget |
| 0:28.5 | today. PrayforChina.us is where you can learn more about that. And to learn more about all of our |
| 0:33.4 | various ministry endeavors or get any of the missionary biographies that I've helped to |
| 0:38.3 | republish in the last year or so, you can visit pray give go.us. |
| 0:44.1 | Pray givego.us. |
| 0:45.8 | Once again, today we are going to turn to the late Richard Wormbrand to speak to us on behalf |
| 0:53.3 | of the persecuted church. For those who don't know who Richard Wormbrand to speak to us on behalf of the persecuted church. For those who don't know |
| 0:56.4 | who Richard Wormbrand is, here's a brief introduction. He was the Romanian Lutheran minister |
| 1:01.6 | back in the mid-20th century in Romania. He spent 14 years in prison, three of those in solitary |
| 1:08.6 | confinement, which is where the book originated from |
| 1:12.9 | that we are working through in these last few weeks, sermons in solitary confinement. He published |
| 1:18.2 | Tortured for Christ when he returned, or not returned, when he escaped to the U.S. in the late |
| 1:24.3 | 1960s. Eventually, he founded Voice of the Martyrs, but his son, Michael, who is still |
| 1:29.9 | alive today in Southern California, does not recommend Voice of the Martyrs ministry for various |
| 1:35.3 | reasons. There's been scandals over the years, and he has been kind of forced out, even though |
| 1:39.4 | he's the heir, his father's son, obviously, and then the heir of the ministry in many ways. |
| 1:45.1 | He has his own ministry, and he continues to do things there. |
| 1:47.6 | You can get those links, all those in the show notes. |
| 1:50.1 | I want to move on to the message itself for today. |
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