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| Tortured for Christ | 
| Author: Richard Wurmbrand
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Religious
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 99164
Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0340863684
Dewey Decimal Number: 248
EAN: 9780340863688
ASIN: 0340863684
Publication Date: October 21, 2004
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This classic story of amazing faith in shocking circumstances has been updated for a new generation. Its message remains urgent and relevant: thousands of Christians are still persecuted and tortured around the world today, suffering solely for their belief in Jesus Christ. Richard Wurmbrand endured months of solitary confinement, years of periodic physical torture, constant suffering from hunger and cold, the anguish of brainwashing and mental cruelty. His captors lied to his wife, saying he was dead. Yet he went on to tell the West the truth about Christianity behind the Iron Curtain. Millions of people have been touched by this story, and thirty years after its first publication it is now updated with a new foreword by Rob Frost, a picture section and details of the final years of Wurmbrand's life.
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 Inspiring and a wake-up call to Christians! December 31, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There's not much I can say about this book that the other reviewers haven't said much more eloquently.
Tortured for Christ is the true story of & by the founder of the Voice of the Matyrs Richard Wurmbrand. Richard Wurmbrand was a Romanian pastor who spent 14 years in Communist prisons, because he refused to stop preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ in the Underground Church.
Mr. Wurmbrand & his fellow Christian prisoners endured months of solitary confinement, starvation, horrible physical tortures, brain-washing and mental horrors beyond your wildest imagination. One man even had his own son beat to death right in front of him. It really opened my eyes to read of these horrors that happened and are still happening in some parts of the world to this day! Before reading this book I had no idea that these horrors happened for things as small as just owning a Holy Bible. Color me naive! It really made me feel blessed to live in America.
Politics aside, this is a story of a tenacious and enduring love for Jesus. Mr. Wurmbrand was a Christian in every sense of the word. He lived to spread the gospel and to help other tortured people. He truly lived a Christlike life. He speaks in the book of his love for his tormentors and he is genuinely sincere. I believe that every Christian and non-Christian should read Tortured for Christ. Even non-Christians, I'm sure would appreciate Mr. Wurmbrands sense of character and his sincere love for his tormentors. I'd recommend this book to anyone!
Hard Reality September 15, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A glimpse of what was, and surely is to come; thumbs up for raw and brutal honesty. This is a book that stretches your mind past the boundaries of "comfortable Christianity", and forces you to ponder how far you, yourself, would be willing to suffer unspeakable horrors for the One who gave His life in place of yours.
Carrie Lynn Jones
Author of It All Began... When Jesus Gave Me Sneakers
A testament to Faith and man's inhumanity August 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Tortured for Christ" is one of those books that can really make a Christian think about how much their faith means to them. Richard Wurmbrand's work is at times chilling in its description of man's inhumanity towards his fellow man (Wurmbrand admits that he left out alot of the atrocities which happened to him and others). One brief but memorable scene in the book is where Wurmbrand has a conversation with a man who had suffered under the NAZI government which says something about how many people compare two of the most evil philosiphies in the twentieth century. Sadly, Wurmbrand's opinions on the church in the free West may well have more than a grain of truth.
This book reminds me of a converstaion I had with a fellow student in an AP European History class who was a leftist. He made a comment about Christianity being the greatest source of mass murder in history. Of course most of those atrocities were caused by either people who went against their faith (if they ever had any) or had more to do with secular economic/imperialist policies (many true christians have been persecuted by false Christians as well). Both the instructor and myself reminded him of the tremendous horror atheism gave the world in the twentieth century (Lenin, Stalin, the Khmer Rouge, etc.) and the staggering death tolls.
The book is a quick read and is fairly well written despite the fact its author said it had no literary merit. I recommend it to anyone who wishes a glimpse of life under a repressive dictatorship. Amazon sells the book for a reasonably good price.
 A Must-Read R-Rated Christian Text June 6, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Pastor Wurmbrand's stunning, touching, encouraging and transforming testimony of faith that St. John speaks of in his first epistle, in the supremacy and sufficiency of Christ that indeed overcomes the depravity and atrocties of the Soviet regime. What happened to Pastor Wurmbrand was St. Paul's wish came true, where in the letter to the Philippians he wrote "I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of sharing in his suffering, becoming like him in his death, and so somethow to attain to the resurrection from the dead". The name of Christ is greatly magnified in their suffering through which the message is clear: Jesus Christ is worth living and dying for. No doubt, along with the Apostles and the entire noble heavenly army of the martyrs of the Lord Jesus Christ, Pastor Wurmbrand, with his fragrant aroma of his sacrifice on behalf of his Lord, has joined this "great cloud of witnesses" the epistle to the Hebrews speaks of. Read this book, friends, and know that since we are "surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw-off everything that hinders and sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, who for the joy set before him, endured the cross, scorning its shame and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Amen. (P.S: You can order this book for free from the Voice of the Martyrs, one-per-household)
Testament to the Faith June 22, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an excellent little book that tells the remarkable account of Richard Wurmbrand, a Lutheran pastor who was tortured for 14 years in Communist prisons for his steadfast adherence to Christ Jesus. His stories will doubtless move you to tears, but his purpose is not simply to tug at your emotional strings--nor is the emotion without a powerful message. His courageous stand for Christ and the tremendous love that he and so many other Christians displayed to their captors and torturers under the most horrendous conditions is a powerful witness to the all-surpassing love of Jesus Christ that is alive in every believer. Truly only the supernatural love that comes from knowing the good news of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ crucified, could have produced such a love in the face of unrelenting hatred and persecution. Wurmbrand repeatedly shows through his stories and experiences how communism was intent on trying to destroy Christianity, and how some Americans are blind to the dangers of it. The book is very interesting and quick to read--the only downside is the disjointed narrative and flow of the story. This however, is to be expected after all the tortures he endured, and he admits as much.
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