UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas

Odell’s childhood is horrible: his father beats him and leaves him with uncles; his uncles give him marijuana; his mother vanishes periodically. Sent to a school for kids with behavior problems, he does well but goes back to drugs. He quits school to work, gets involved with Loretta who cannot be faithful and they come and go in each other’s lives. He loses his driver’s license, goes to jail and t...

The birth of his son, Joshua, motivates Odell to live under a false name to be with him. After the 9-11 terrorist attack, he prays and goes to church, but keeps smoking pot. Loretta leaves him and he prays, asking God to help. He’s arrested. While in jail he studies the Bible and prays for salvation. As a trustee, Odell witnesses to his grandfather. Danny, a Christian, befriends Odell. When he’s r...

Harold’s aunt and grandmother look after him and his siblings when his dad is gone and his mother works during World War II. They never go to church, but his grandmother has a picture about Jesus knocking on the door of the heart. His father buys a farm when he returns from the war and Harold, as the oldest, does much of the work. Being a daydreamer in school and having failed several grades, Haro...

Faye teaches Harold until she goes off to college. He joins the army, gives his testimony in the Stockade, and a colonel hears and takes him under his wing. He gets his high school education, marries Faye and when he’s discharged, the colonel helps him start a Christian Servicemen’s Center. He helps start a Youth Challenge ministry to help troubled teenagers and leads his pastor to Christ. He take...

Bill grows up an only child. His mother reads him Bible stories and the family goes to church. At church camp when he’s 13, Bill asks Jesus to save him, but he later denies being a Christian. His parents encourage him to join a social club where he learns to smoke, drink and play poker. After his dad is saved, Bill rebels. His smoking ruins his health and he is hospitalized with rheumatic fever. D...

2984 Bill Shade Classic – Part 2: (Amputee, Inner-City Missions) After hearing a policeman describe youth crime, Bill launches an inner-city ministry in York. God provides people and resources to help him take hundreds of poor gang members to camp where they fight. Asked to preach, Bill begins sobbing and they listen and respond. God helps him buy buildings as centers for youth. Riding his motorcy...

A willful child, Tim prays for salvation at age 10 because he fears hell. But as a teenager he rebels against authority. He smokes, breaks rules as well as track records in the long jump and high hurdle. He moves out, gets a job and goes to college. A bad accident makes him think but not enough to change. He joins the Marine Crops, shapes up and gets meritorious promotions. Then he gets his orders...

On his way to Vietnam Tim tells God that he can’t live for Christ. His Marine buddy, Lee Gore, tries to encourage him. After ten months of combat, Tim steps on a land mine. He comes to with Gore weeping and praying for God to spare Tim. He loses both legs; no more running. After eight months in the hospital and 13 operations, he goes home, falls in love with Connie and they marry. He surrenders to...

As an only child, Laura grows up privileged but without God. At 14 she wins first place in a country music TV competition. She meets Rusty, also a musician, and they marry when she’s 17. They go to Nashville, hoping for success but fail. They have two sons, then he leaves her for another woman. She fights the divorce, loses after three years and lives in denial. For the next nine years she serves...

Sonny goes to the altar at ten, but is led astray by country music. He succeeds, elopes with Mary and joins the Navy in World War II. He and his group hit it right in New York and Chicago, where they play for nationwide radio. But he drinks too much. A salesman comes to his house and offers to pray for Sonny who continues to run from God. One day he is unable to sing and begins to shake. He promis...

Billy’s parents work, leaving their children in turmoil and without God. He cries out to God at 13 but doesn’t get an answer, so he turns to drugs and alcohol. He gives his soul to Satan at 17, then tries suicide. He graduates but a friend’s accidental death makes him wonder what will happen when he dies. He goes to California with his brother, works, tries a relationship, then worldly things, the...

Saved at age nine, Tommy dreams of a baseball career but God has other plans. He becomes a paramedic and firefighter at age 23. God puts suicidal people, drug addicts and other desperate people in Tommy’s life, and he witnesses to one and all, including a former neighbor who brought fear to Tommy as a child. He even recounts one instance of failing to witness to a dying man. All the vignettes are...

Mesmerized by magic, Phil studies and practices to be a magician. In high school he hears a sermon and goes forward, giving his life to Christ. He graduates in 1932 and works as a magician. An agent friend mocks him for praying because Phil is too poor to buy food. So Phil and his mother pray, asking God to honor His name. The next day Phil is offered a contract with Lyceum, going to schools acros...

Phil is in Bible college when he falls in love with Jane, the president’s daughter. She spurns him and becomes an army nurse. His friends encourage him to pursue her, and he visits her with an engagement ring. She interrogates him on his theological position so he keeps the ring. Still a magician, he entertains troops but is deferred from serving because he’s in seminary. He and Jane ultimately ma...

Bill’s family in Belfast, Ireland is poor but hard working. Bill’s father and he both gamble pocket money. They don’t go to church, but his mother takes him to Sunday evening services at a local mission. At school he learns to memorize scripture daily. Working at fourteen, he begins stealing money from his boss. Then a friend is saved at the mission and proselytizes Bill. He goes to a prayer meeti...

Joyce and Bill Scott meet in London, where she tells her life story, salvation and call to India while they ride the bus to the shipping office. They become acquainted as they sail to India together with 77 other missionaries. Bill has several humorous mishaps. They share the train ride to Secunderabad, their mission field, for language training. Two weeks after their arrival Bill proposes marriag...

Joyce and Bill marry and serve with the mission school in India. Bill has a vision from God to get Bibles into every home in India, but illiteracy is widespread and the nation is closed to the gospel. After nine years with the mission school, they leave to work at the mission hospital. In time India opens more to the gospel and they begin a school of evangelism, sending local men out to villages....

When John is six his father goes insane and tries to kill the family. At seventeen John goes to Vienna to become a waiter. A pastor in Munich sends him to a Christian Waiters’ Home in Paris. There he sees a plaque: Where will you spend eternity. He visits his mother before going to London, where Christian waiters’ testimonies help him come to Christ. More adventures follow as a waiter at sea befor...

Mike blames God for setbacks in his life. When his older brother beats a man to death, Mike covers for him and lies to the police. Thinking they’ve gotten away with it, Mike is engaged to Susan. Then he’s arrested. In county jail he’s outraged by a preacher, reads the Bible and is convicted of sin. He prays for salvation, expects to be exonerated but gets 21 years. Susan faithfully visits him. He...

His dad abandons the family when Johnny is 14. At 17 Johnny takes a job as professional golfer and chooses to work on Sunday rather than go to church. His mother pleads with him to no avail. He begins drinking and drinks too much. He marries Dorothy and they build a country club. When World War II comes, he converts the club into an officer’s club. He’s drafted but the army has him teach golf rath...

Johnny becomes addicted to narcotics when the “rest home” gives him Demerol to wean him off alcohol. He loses his right eye in a rest home brawl. Bitter and unable to work, he sells his possessions and then borrows. Reduced to the gutter, he decides to end his life, but a friend takes him to the V.A. Hospital where a chaplain prays for him. He goes to hear a former golf student at the chapel and g...

Kathy’s bitterness toward her busy father causes many problems: bulimia, rebellion, drinking and a bad attitude. She meets Kip in high school and they go off to college together, but she cannot be faithful. Her sin leads to depression and she has several accidents, but she finishes nursing school. She and Kip marry but her bulimia returns after her first baby is born. She goes to a clinic, overcom...

Mamie’s mother gives her to a stranger who takes her to France and teaches her to deal cards, smoke and drink. She marries at fifteen, has a daughter, Sonia. Her husband dies and Mamie raises Sonia by dancing in cabarets. She becomes a drug addict, enduring the Nazis. Her daughter dies, further embittering Mamie. When the war ends she goes to Canada where she contracts polio and is crippled. A wom...

3002 Becky Kelly: Becky resents her step mom. She also resents the restrictions of diabetes and steals sweets, then money to buy sweets. A liar and thief, she becomes promiscuous and has a bad reputation in high school. Her parents send her to a mental health clinic where she meets a guy she eventually marries. But he is a homosexual who abuses her. The marriage is annulled, and Becky runs around,...

Chuck joins the navy at 17, hears and rejects the gospel during boot training. Later he says “yes” to Jesus but not with his heart. He marries 15-year-old Nell when he’s 20. They party and have a son, Larry, but alcohol nearly drives them apart. When the navy sends him to Iceland, she wants a divorce. He persuades her to try again but the marriage founders. A sailor urges Chuck to come to Bible st...