Like Samson in Prison: Am I a Martyr or a Sinner? (The Prison Pulpit #23) [China Compass]
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Welcome to this special episode of the China Compass Podcast, #23 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 (http://PrayforChina.us). To learn more about our various ministry endeavors and to get any of the missionary biographies I’ve published, visit www.PrayGiveGo.us!
Once again, we turn to Richard Wurmbrand to speak to us on behalf of the persecuted church…
Richard Wurmbrand was a Romanian Lutheran minister who spent fourteen years in prison (three in solitary confinement) and published ”Tortured for Christ" after his release in the late 1960s.
He later founded Voice of the Martyrs, but son Michael does NOT recommend VOM’s ministry today. (Read his “Open Letter” about VOM here: https://www.billionbibles.com/michael-wurmbrand-vom.html)
Michael Wurmbrand now runs his own ministry, and has made most of his father’s books (and formerly unpublished writings) available for free: https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/.
What follows was taken from “Samson in Prison”, one of the sermons in Wurmbrand’s book, Sermons in Solitary Confinement.
Read the text version of this podcast here: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/samson-in-prison
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
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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 sermon I’ve given all over the world about praying for the persecuted church. You can get the book at http://Unbeaten.vip, or read just the sermon for free on my China Call Substack: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/remember-my-chains
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this special episode of the China Compass podcast number 23 now in the weekly |
| 0:13.7 | Prison Pulpit series. I'm your China travel guide, missionary Ben. You can follow me on |
| 0:20.2 | X at China Adventures where I post |
| 0:23.4 | daily reminders to pray for China. Pray for China.us is our website for all that information. |
| 0:30.6 | To learn more about our various ministries and any of the missionary biographies I've helped |
| 0:35.5 | to publish in the last couple of years, you can visit praygivgo.us. |
| 0:40.9 | Praygivgo.us. |
| 0:42.3 | And all those links are in the show notes as well. |
| 0:45.1 | Today, once again, we're going to turn to Richard Wormbrand to speak to us on behalf of the persecuted church. |
| 0:51.9 | Wernbrandt was a Romanian Lutheran minister who spent 14 years in prison, three of those in |
| 0:57.1 | solitary confinement. He published Tortured for Christ after his release back in the late 1960s. I say |
| 1:05.1 | release. He kind of escaped Romania with his wife and kids. It's a crazy story he does tell |
| 1:09.4 | in one of his books there. |
| 1:16.8 | He later founded Voice of the Martyrs, but his son, Michael, who is in his 80s and is still alive in Southern California, does not recommend Voice of the Martyr's ministry today. |
| 1:21.7 | You can read what his concerns are in his open letter, linked to here in the show notes. |
| 1:27.1 | Michael Wormbrand now runs his |
| 1:28.9 | own ministry, by the way, and he has made most of his father's books and formerly unpublished |
| 1:34.3 | writings available for free on his website, Richard Wormbrandfoundation.com. Richard Wormbrandtfoundation.com. |
| 1:41.1 | What follows today, what we're going to do today is look at the sermon from |
| 1:45.5 | solitary confinement. This is the book, Sermons in Solitary Confinement by Richard Wernbrandt published. |
| 1:51.1 | It's only available as far as I know on his son's website. This sermon we're going to look at |
| 1:56.3 | today is called Samson in Prison. Samson in Prison. You can read the text version of this if you |
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