UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas

Being in military family leaves Julie insecure. Drinking gives her confidence and she becomes alcoholic in high school. Graduates, goes to beauty school. Meets Rich and they move to Florida to sell cocaine. They steal and work part-time to survive. Julie gets pregnant twice, aborts both because she can’t stop drinking. Guilt makes her drink more. Prays for salvation but doesn’t surrender will. Ric...

Rich replaces church with parties when he’s in high school. Drug addiction leads to aimless life. He works but moves often, feels lonely. First marriage lasts only three weeks. Discovery of brother’s homosexuality leaves questioning all beliefs. Lives with Julie but cocaine addiction devours their life. She has two abortions then goes into rehab. Rich is so desolate he cries out to God, watches TV...

Mike grows up believing in salvation by works. Works and studies for degrees, then marries. Very responsible but success leaves him empty inside. Wife finds Christ and Mike finds a girlfriend. Wife prays but doesn’t condemn. Boss invites Mike to men’s prayer breakfast where he’s convicted of sin. Prays with wife for salvation. Now a pastor.

Rebecca is intelligent and goes to college at seventeen. Father gets saved, but she’s disinterested. Several men take advantage of her in college, then her boyfriend abandons her when she gets pregnant. He is killed in an accident. Rebecca takes daughter to church and gives her life to Christ. Then she is led astray by cult church and loses touch with reality. Diagnosed schizophrenic, she gets the...

Bill is New York City policeman who works hard, drinks harder. His son is estranged by Bill’s harsh treatment. Wife gets saved and Bill fights her church-going and prayers. Bills health fails and sister invites evangelist to visit. Bill goes to service and receives Christ. As he retires, he goes to Bible school, but still can’t relate to his son. Bills pastors churches and teaches Bible school. As...

David’s family is poor and godless, hard-drinkers and fighters. Mother gets saved but David won’t listen. At seventeen he is shot in stomach. The next year he is shot in shoulder. Christians witness in hospital but he won’t listen. Drunken dad fires shotgun in David’s face, blinding him. Filled with bitterness, he turns to drugs, almost overdoses, cries out to God. He goes to church with Mother, g...

Born in Zimbabwe, Stephen’s mother abandons him and his two younger siblings when he is seven. Aunt lets him sleep in chicken coop. He forages in garbage cans for food. Completely illiterate, he tries to hang himself at fourteen but is rescued. Joins revolutionary gang bombing churches and banks. Tries to bomb a tent revival, gets saved instead. Part One ends with Stephen being discipled by a whit...

Stephen learns not only the Bible but manners and hygiene. He becomes an evangelist, menaced by the revolutionaries he once followed. He marries and has five children, learns to preach in English, overcomes inferiority complex. Mother comes to revival; he leads her to Christ and overcomes bitterness toward her. Eventually finds his father and leads him to repentance. Stephen now a world-wide evang...

Rebellious streak begins at age twelve and includes smoking pot, breaking rules and resisting authority. Drug use leads to job losses. During one drug party, a guy reads the Bible. Jim is drawn to the gospel but hates to give up drugs. Goes to a rock concert where singer blasphemes God. Horrified, Jim asks God to save him right there. Quits drugs and later witnesses to the same rock group. Now an...

A nightingale cannot sing a note, until it first hears the song of another nightingale. A tiny template planted in the brain of the little bird must be triggered by its hearing the notes sung by another nightingale, not those of a robin, or lark or bluebird, only the nightingales song. Perhaps there is a “template” implanted in us, which will be activated by hearing the word of God. This is what h...

Family health problems, including Dad’s epilepsy and retarded brothers, leave Bill ashamed and confused. He blames God. Near drowning at age twelve. Classmates’ taunts lead him to rebellion, drinking and drug use. He deals drugs, drops out of football. Caring coach helps Bill return and succeed. But Bill hates everyone including himself. His dad keeps reaching out to him. Watching TV evangelist, B...

Ralph grows up longing to help his single mom, who struggles to provide for the family. He takes odd jobs, starts drinking, quits school, gets in trouble. He marries at seventeen. Drawn into organized crime, Ralph is confronted by a hitman but dissuades him. He’s nearly killed in an accident, but lives to serve his time in prison. During second time in prison, no one visits except evangelist, who...

Nadine endures abandonment by her mother and an abusive father who raises them on a farm. She and sister do all the farm work and go to school. Her health breaks down. A school friend invites her to church where she learns God loves her. She goes to Bible college. Sisters profess faith in Christ, but father dies without repentance. Nadine and husband, Roger, serve the Lord in children’s ministries...

Although family is poor, Howard is born with musical talent and he helps support family by playing the piano in burlesque theatres in Chicago. Wine, women and son lead him astray, to the horror of his Christian parents. He marries Ruth, a chaste Christian, but can’t give up the old life. He visits Pacific Garden Mission often for coffee but resists the gospel until his wife issues ultimatum. He go...

Willie becomes addicted to pornography at fourteen, cocaine at twenty-two. Alcohol leads him to violence and blackouts. He’s arrested but slips by with fines. He lives with a woman, decides to marry and wants his dad to be best man. His dad is dying of cancer, and Willie sees his dad accept Christ before he dies. Willie’s drug addiction grows so bad, his wife issues ultimatum. He goes to see broth...

Bill stays out of trouble growing up, works at being a good boy until he’s a teenager and challenges the pastor. College and career leave him feeling empty, so he decides to walk across America. Besieged by witnesses of Christ everywhere he goes, he reaches Denver and stops for nine months to work, then walks to Seattle, reading the Bible. Proud and self-reliant, he doesn’t realize he’s a sinner u...

“Polly”’s mother is born-again, so he grows up in church knowing about Jesus. His dad is a drunkard, but Polly hates the taste of alcohol until he joins the Navy. Afterward, he drinks too much, even after he marries. While drunk, a stranger offers him a ride and shoots Polly, who nearly dies. Wife receives Christ, Polly is left nearly blind. His drinking worsens until family takes him to state hos...

Richard grows up in poverty without God. Two brothers have muscular dystrophy. Joins army after graduation and goes to fight in Korea. Christian buddy influences him but back home he begins drinking hard after father’s death. Head-on collision while drunk nearly kills a boy. He joins Air Force, falls in love with woman who loves the Lord. Goes to church with her and is saved. Richard gets muscular...

In spite of a God-fearing, loving family, James is a rebellious teenager who lies, vandalizes and drinks. When a friend accidentally shoots him below the eye, James fears death but is too proud to pray. He survives and carries on as before. God and his parents help him through crises, but James is ungrateful and bitter. Unable to bear his sin, he cries out to God, then talks with a pastor who lead...

His father dies when Ron is ten. Then Ron gets rheumatic fever and spends a year in a convalescent home. Family disintegrates as Mom drinks and kids turn to drugs and crime. Many confrontations with police, ever trapped, scared and risking death, Ron goes to prison at age 25. Hears gospel message and wants to change, but goes back to drugs and crime when he’s released. Sister takes him to church w...

Drunken abusive father puts Steve’s mother in mental hospital. Living with Grandpa introduces him to love and fear of God but is short-lived. Poverty and fear are Steve’s lot in life. He runs away at thirteen. Sleeping here and there, he stays in school. Friends take him to revival one night and he wants salvation but is too ashamed. A friend leads him to Christ in the parking lot. His friend’s fa...

A teenager during the sixties, Larry becomes rebellious, breaking rules, stealing and doing drugs. Small crimes become bigger and he lands in Florida prison for burglary. Out again, he lives on the streets, eating at rescue missions. Another crime puts him in Georgia prison, and he tries to rehabilitate himself. Strangers visit, sharing Jesus and send their pastor who explains salvation. Larry cri...

An Australian, perceived injustice leads Tom into hatred of authority that focuses on police. Drinking releases his rage. Marriage doesn’t quell his violence. He sets fire to police cars. Arrested, he’s treated at psychiatric hospital. One arson attempts burns him badly and he is confined to a hospital for the criminally insane. Wife stands by him. He escapes, is captured and then an inmate begins...

What does it mean to be a man? Al’s father is a man’s man who works hard and drinks harder. Al hates his father for getting drunk and beating Mother; yet he loves his father who stands up for Al when he gets in trouble. At age seventeen Al intervenes and hits his dad for beating Al’s mother. When Al’s sister invites him to church, he goes out of curiosity and responds to the gospel. Now a pastor,...

Rough childhood leaves Diane hungering for love. She meets Greg and wants to quit school, but her dad persuades her to graduate. Diane and Greg marry, but he doesn’t give up drugs. Friends find Christ, and Diane goes to church but Greg refuses. When Diane gets pregnant, he insists she get an abortion. Their marriage fails as her love turns to hate. Then she is saved. First part ends when a friend...