The Prisoner Who Carried No Bible
When Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand was dragged into a Communist prison cell in 1948, his captors stripped him of everything — his coat, his shoes,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Jeremiah 31:27-34.
When Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand was dragged into a Communist prison cell in 1948, his captors stripped him of everything — his coat, his shoes, his wedding ring, his Bible. For fourteen years, across multiple prisons, he never held a single page of Scripture in his hands. Yet Wurmbrand preached. In solitary confinement, he tapped sermons in Morse code through the walls to fellow prisoners.…
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