Preaching in a Straitjacket (Gagged) │Sermons in Solitary Confinement (The Prison Pulpit #24) [China Compass]
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
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Welcome to this special episode of the China Compass Podcast, #24 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Michael Wurmbrand now runs his own ministry, and has made most of his father’s books (and formerly unpublished writings) available for free: https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.com/.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 a “Sermon To My Own Soul”, (or, “Preaching in a Straitjacket (Gagged)”, 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/preaching-in-a-straitjacket-gagged
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. This is number 24 now in the weekly prison pulpit series, which is within the broader China Compass podcast series. I'm your China Travel Guide, missionary Ben. You can follow me on |
| 0:22.5 | X at China Adventures, at China Adventures, where I post daily reminders to pray for China. Prayfor |
| 0:29.7 | China.us is the website for that. You can learn more about all of our various ministry endeavors |
| 0:35.0 | and get any of the missionary biographies that I'm working and have published and will be publishing more, all those things you can find at pray |
| 0:41.4 | give go.us, pray give go.us, including links to the substack and the podcast, of course, and the |
| 0:48.7 | X-Feed as well, so you can be praying for China. Once again, today we are turning to Richard Wormbrand to speak to us on behalf of the persecuted |
| 0:58.6 | church. |
| 0:59.5 | I just looked, I started this particular series within a series. |
| 1:02.8 | I guess you could say back on February 19th, we began this sermons in solitary confinement |
| 1:08.1 | series. |
| 1:09.7 | I'm not sure how long we'll do it. It's been fascinating, |
| 1:12.4 | at least for me, to go through and read and see some of what he wrote and spoke and preached |
| 1:16.6 | from prison so many years ago. Again, the idea is that he's speaking to us on behalf of those |
| 1:21.7 | who are still in prison, even today, who we don't know by name, who aren't getting their words to |
| 1:25.9 | us through the interwebs. |
| 1:28.3 | And so we can use him as a proxy of sorts. |
| 1:31.1 | And we can pray and be thinking about those who really are suffering, who really are isolated, |
| 1:35.6 | in solitary confinement in places like China or Iran or wherever else you might have knowledge or contacts. |
| 1:42.3 | Richard Wembrand, for those who do not know, was a Romanian Lutheran minister who spent |
| 1:47.2 | 14 years in prison, three in solitary confinement. |
| 1:50.3 | He published Tortured for Christ after his release in the late 60s, 1960s. |
| 1:55.0 | I guess we're in a new century. |
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