UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas

Jimmy grows up without a dad and starts smoking pot at 12 even though his mother is a police officer and they go to church. He marries Patty although her dad opposes the match. Jimmy promises to straighten up at 30 but doesn’t. A drug dealer, he becomes addicted to Oxycontin, then crack cocaine. His addiction leads him to steal from his wife, his mother and daughter. He resists conviction several...

While she’s a child, Sophie’s sister, mother and brother all die, leading to her fear of death. To placate God she goes to church and prays often as a teenager. She meets Nick but is afraid to marry him until he converts to her church. When their daughter is born, Sophie becomes even more fearful. Even when they go out with friends to party, the fears haunt her. She hears a radio preacher and pray...

Beginning as a teenager, Ken Edwards traced a life of crime across the nation leaving a trail of stolen or counterfeit loot. He lived a style many yearned to imitate but for the reckoning which came in a Florida jail. His mother and grandmother had prayed for years – without seeming effect. But at last, from a source he had spurned, Edwards experienced the grace hundreds have found.

Roger is saved at 13 and studies chemistry, planning to teach in high school. Instead he’s recruited to teach at a Bible college where he meets Naomi. He’s drafted into the army where he works as a chemist, hears a Wycliffe call to teach the Bible in the Philippines and submits to God. He and Naomi apply to be missionaries. He’s accepted, she’s rejected. They marry anyway and both are approved. Th...

Roger and Naomi are a challenge to the existing church in Banaue that takes them to court. Roger wins. He and a native believer, George, translate the Gospel of John into Ifugao. The mission wants Roger to teach chemistry in Manila, but he resists, so they send the couple to Baguio. There they establish Bible fellowships for the mountain students. After 32 years they retire and go to Israel, endur...

“Eda” is the oldest of three sisters. Their grandmother secretly talks about God in a godless country, closed to the world. No one trusts anyone. Education is paramount to her family and she is obedient. Communism begins to fall when she is 14. Churches open and she hears an evangelist on TV and prays with him. Someone gives her a Bible and she reads voraciously. As a teenager working at a public...

Bill grows up in New York City. Gifted in basketball, he’s molested at 12 by a gangster and left with rage. His drinking ruins his NBA chances but he finishes college and marries Carolyn. When a back injury ends basketball, he has an affair. Carolyn learns and wants a divorce. After her pastor prays, she has peace and offers Bill forgiveness if he accepts Christ. He does but keeps drinking until h...

His family’s cult religion doesn’t allow doctors, so David suffers ear infections as a child. Finally, he has surgery to remove tonsils and adenoids, then gets swimming water in his inner ear leaving him with Meniere’s Disease. He suffers ridicule for being off balance, isolates himself and does well in chemistry. In college he idolizes his professor who reduces him to tears. In graduate school he...

Bill hates parochial school, gets in trouble and fights growing up. He joins the Marines after high school, meets Marly and falls in love. He goes to Vietnam where she stops writing after he proposes. He survives the Tet Offensive, comes home and reconnects with Marly. He becomes a drill instructor, desensitizing him to life. When his tour is up, he goes to college and he and Marly are engaged. Bu...

Jack burns his picture out of the school yearbook and his family sends him for psychiatric help. A thief and drug dealer, he flees his family after high school and goes to Florida. There he hears the gospel at a rescue mission and feigns conversion. A motorcycle accident causes him to bargain with God but he doesn’t keep his promises. He drinks too much, is charged with rape and spends a year in c...

Jack travels with an evangelist for three years, then goes to Bible college where he studies Spanish evangelism. In a ministry to Spanish people at his church he meets and marries Gloria. They adopt two girls and have a son and daughter. He leads the Spanish ministry four years then quits. Called to be a missionary to Mexico, he quits his job and they go to Mexico. After ten years they go to Tabas...

In 1944 David’s dad begins making moonshine with David’s help. He is 14. His mother finally objects and the family moves to Florida where David finishes high school at 16. David goes to hear an evangelist at the church next door and after a week of sermons he prays to receive Christ. His whole family, except for his dad, gets saved. His dad resists the gospel. David becomes superintendent of Sunda...

David and Norma marry after she finishes college. When he graduates from Bible college, they start a church near his family. His dad attends and professes faith. David gets his Master’s degree in theology and becomes department head at their old college. They witness to her family, but the brothers and dad resist. Norma develops Pulmonary Fibrosis, and David cares for her. Her brother, Harry, fina...

Barbara’s parents divorce when she’s an infant and she grows up afraid of her father. Her mother is strict but they go to church faithfully. Barbara confesses Christ at age 8, but she drifts into singing and acting, goes to college and does well until senior year when she has a nervous breakdown. Diagnosed as manic-depressive, she is in and out of the hospital for 15 years, wanders into parapsycho...

His father abandons the family when Jim is five, leaving his mother to raise five children. His grandmother sends him to church and he works, but he and his brothers get into trouble, stealing, smoking, fighting. A classmate invites Jim to a Bible club when he’s sixteen, and he prays for salvation. Another classmate dies unexpectedly of a seizure and Jim realizes he must witness more. Unable to gr...

Julio’s father is a philandering alcoholic who dies when Julio is 16. He grows up with religion but not the Bible. He studies agricultural science at university and meets an American missionary who tells him about Jesus. Foolishly he steals car parts and goes to jail for a week. Afterward, the missionary tells him Jesus will set him free. He goes to church but to mock. After he graduates he gets d...

Trudy’s parents are religious until she’s twelve and they start listening to Christian radio. They receive Christ, but her father leaves when she’s 17. She quits seeing Dad who remarries. Trudy works to help her mother financially until her siblings graduate, then Trudy goes to missionary training in Canada. There she meets Jeff and they marry. They serve in Manaus, Brazil. When her mother is dyin...

Rodney is molested at age four but turns to God for comfort. At nine he walks away from God to friends that lie and swear. He drinks, does drugs and is in several accidents, breaking both legs. He squanders insurance money on drugs, gambling and a sport car that he wrecks. He marries, has a son but his drugs and neglect lead to divorce. He repents but doesn’t get his family back, so he gets into M...

While making methamphetamine, Rodney is set on fire. A neighbor takes him to the hospital where he recovers. The pastor of the Christian rehab visits, and Rodney goes there when he’s released. He finishes the course, lives with his dad and has many opportunities to witness for Christ. He finishes college, writes a book and becomes pastor of a church. He counsels Jennifer, a former drug addict, and...

Dick Lane’s cruelty is as famous as his skill at blowing safes. A newsman tries to help Dick by offering him a job, but Dick refuses. He disdains rehabilitation and thwarts the efforts of other inmates to go straight. After he breaks the wrist of a Christian who offers friendship, Dick’s hard shell cracks along with his career. He goes to the newsman who gives him a job but he can’t escape the mem...

Bessie’s beauty is her god. As a youth she sings at a mission but then falls away as a teenager. She meets and marries Nick, a Mafia type who is killed after their marriage. Her behavior degenerates and she sickens of her life and goes to Chicago where her family has moved. Her mother takes her to church and Bessie goes to the altar and prays to receive Christ. In street ministry she meets Bill, a...

Gary’s parents divorce when Gary is five. He goes to many different school but excels. Becomes a leader under the encouragement of his high school sweetheart. They go to college and she dumps him, so he joins the Army Special Forces and becomes a medic with the Green Berets. He gets drunk and piles up so many charges that he re-enlists for Vietnam. He loves the Montagnard people, the peace and pur...

Gary spends ten months healing in a veteran’s hospital, tries drugs in his search for God. Then tries college but drops out after some students spit on him. He visits his cousin and her husband gives him a New Testament. He discovers Jesus and is saved. He is reconciled to his father, also saved, and then he goes to seminary. While there he’s called to Washington to receive the Medal of Honor. He...

His parents divorce when Chris is ten and his mother falls out with the church. At eleven his stepfather tells him he must work and leave home at 18. The mixed family is troublesome and his mother seeks God. She is saved while Chris works at a Burger King. There he meets Pat, a thrill-seeker who tries car surfing and falls. Chris does CPR but his friend dies. Chris is devastated, seeks counseling...

Chris goes to college but joins a fraternity where he drinks and gets into immoral behavior. For five years he fails to go to church and drifts away from God. He is miserable but doesn’t know why even though he has a good job and home. He meets Jennifer and they live together. His mother keeps telling him to go to church. Finally, he goes, is convicted and recommits his life to Christ. Jenn is sav...