UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas

Charles witnesses to his old buddies who ridicule him. Pat gives him a job in his body shop. Charles learns to prioritize and trust God as he serves in the church. He witnesses to a co-worker, but Don rejects the gospel. Charles and a mentor witness to an alcoholic friend, who also rejects Christ. The man dies that night of a heart attack and Charles feels compelled to preach on street corners. Ch...

The oldest of nine children, Clint and his family move from Arizona to Chicago when he’s twelve. There he’s invited to Sunday school and professes faith in Christ at fourteen. He goes to Bible classes and gives his testimony on street corners. At 17 he goes to Albuquerque to work for the railroad, working Sundays. He backslides, rides the rails, then falls in with a robber. They buy guns and commi...

Fearful in the Great War, Joe promises God that he will become a minister. Unsaved, he goes through seminary. As a pastor he meets Nelda and they marry. Her mother knows Joe isn’t saved and her comments annoy him. When an unsaved parishioner dies, pleading for peace with God, Joe doesn’t have the answer and quits the ministry. He goes to New York, talks with theologians. One of them sends him to t...

Although his parents take him to church and read Bible stories to him, Tom has religion but doesn’t know Christ as he matures. Smart and responsible, he studies architecture, meets and marries Judy, who becomes a teacher. For eight years they live near her family. Her father’s death of brain cancer and their following move to Georgia, away from her mother, leave her feeling trapped. Then his partn...

Devastated after his wife’s suicide, Tom is visited by a man (George Eager) who leads him to Christ. George then persuades Tom to take his children to a Bible conference camp that summer. There Tom meets Cherie, a single mom with three daughters. He also meets John, an architect who loves the LORD. Tom and Cherie marry, and Tom’s partners ask him to leave, so he starts his own firm. Cherie opens a...

John’s father is paralyzed from a job injury when John is 6, and John grows up without a father in the home. A wild child, his mother takes him along as she cleans the homes of Jews, and he learns Bible stories. They also go to church, but John rejects Christ. He uses drugs, drops out of high school to join the army and marries Carla. Children are born, but he can’t quit drugs; he goes to prison a...

John meets Donna and they live together, moving often because of the contracts out on his life. Then his partner is shot and killed, and John is arrested. As a third-time offender, he faces a long sentence and tries to escape. He’s caught and put in solitary where he learns of his brother’s death from leukemia. In prison he reads the Bible and hears an evangelist. One night he prays and is saved....

The associate warden John works with in prison is a Messianic Jew who teaches John about the roots of Judaism in Christianity. He also tutors him for a G.E.D. As an inmate John is allowed to go to Bible college. When released, he and Donna go into ministry, speaking at prisons across the country. He asks forgiveness from his family. He brings his dad to live with them, speaking at his dad’s funera...

Raised without God or the Bible or church, Lawrence quits school at 15 to work and become rich. He marries Wilma at 24. Violent and bitter, he loses his job, borrows money from his dad to start his own auto shop. He has amassed nearly $50,000 when an oil-sparked explosion sets him on fire at work, and he nearly dies. In a coma he has a vision of hell and cries out to God to save him. All his money...

Bruce and Doris run away to marry when she is only 16. His motorcycle crashes into a car, and he prays for her to live, promising God to change. He doesn’t. Then she nearly dies after having their first baby. Again he promises God to change. They move to a small town where a neighbor prays for them. They go to church, hear the gospel and later that night, both pray to receive Christ. Change begins...

Daughter, Gann, chooses to go to South Africa with her parents and they arrive by Greek freighter. Their co-workers, however, are liberal and the Burkes leave the mission after 9 months to serve on their own, forming Open Bible Ministries. The government doesn’t renew their visa, so they go home but continue to raise support, starting new churches and schools. When they return to S. Africa they fa...

Byron’s assertive father stirs up rebellion in the son. Wearing braces for the first six years of his life due to bow-legs, Byron walks to Sunday school and is beaten for not telling his parents. He learns to smoke and drink by age ten; commits vandalism and nearly dies. He runs away and his dad arranges to have him arrested. Byron quits school at 16 and his dad sets him up in business. Byron is s...

Byron attempts suicide several times. His doctor refuses to treat him because of the drinking problems, and his wife is at wit’s end, even having Byron put in jail for his own protection. The family tries to have him committed but the judge lets him try to change. He can’t. Finally, in an alcoholic center, a pastor explains the gospel and Byron is saved. He spends the rest of his life as a witness...

Bill and Barb marry when she is only 14 and he is 16. Bill decides to live as he pleases and get saved when he is old. When his father can no longer farm, they assume responsibility for the family dairy farm. An accident nearly kills Bill. Hospitalized for three months, he surrenders to Christ. The couple does well in farming afterward until government interference drives them into bankruptcy, aft...

Floyd has polio at age four leaving him with a stutter. He runs away from home at five, finding friends who teach him to smoke. Rebellious, he does poorly at school, is held back repeatedly and finally is expelled at 16 in the 7th grade. He marries at 20; the Depression hits, and he drinks and gambles. After a fight with his dad, he looks at his life and wants God. He drives his wife and son 80 mi...

David’s parents divorce when he is nine. His dad is a violent drunk, and David begins drinking and using drugs in elementary school. His mother puts him in a psychiatric center at 13. He repeatedly goes into rehab. He believes in God, tries church at 17, marries out of guilt and then turns against God when his wife leaves him for another man. He marries again at 19, and they have a son. But David...

David is arrested for stabbing his brother who survives and even goes to court on David’s behalf. He quits drinking but after six months resumes, worse than ever. His marriage threatened, he quits drinking again but still sells drugs. Then he hears a radio preacher and goes to church. While reading a book by the radio preacher, he understands Christ’s sacrifice and is born again. He witnesses to h...

Craig wants answers and doesn’t get them in Hebrew School, so he drops out, then wants to make Bar Mitzvah and does, thanks to a rabbi’s help. His parents divorce but his maternal grandpa upholds him. He meets Lauri, goes to college and they marry while he’s in law school. She’s Catholic but they agree to study the Bible. When a colleague at work tells Craig about Jesus and points out the flaws in...

Craig continues to study scripture with Mark until their son is born. Afterward he and Lauri meet for Bible study with Mark. They even go to a church service. Then Craig’s beloved grandfather dies and he is too devastated to think about eternity. Mark finally calls and confronts Craig, who makes a decision for Christ. Lauri, too, is saved. Craig begins reaching out to other Jews through churches,...

Raised by his maternal grandmother and mama, Stephen prays at 12 but fear of peer rejection leads him to backslide. A fast runner, he excels at track in high school. But he steals and is caught; then racial tension and prejudice keep him unnerved. He hears the gospel but refuses to accept Christ. He goes to college but quits the track team, smokes pot and drinks too much. A man shares the gospel w...

Stephen goes to seminary and then is called to New Guinea where he has many adventures teaching physical education to natives and missionary kids in school. Returning home his church sends him to linguistic school where he struggles. His beloved grandmother dies and his brother is hospitalized, near death. After two years his brother dies and Stephen preaches at his funeral.

We go back in time to hear prophetic scripture from the Old Testament that foretell the coming of Messiah according to God’s planning and foreknowledge. Also, the disciples and Mary quote passages from the New Testament that reveal how Jesus fulfilled those prophesies. The script ends as the announcer quotes some scriptures yet to come.

Donna’s dad suffers seizures, so her mom takes her to California, then leaves her with strangers while she works. Donna is neglected and abused in one home after another. At 15 she finally lives with her mom who drinks. Donna meets her dad who takes her to church where she is saved. She marries Allen and they have two sons. When her mother needs help after having a seizure, Donna overcomes retalia...

While shoe-shining in Chicago at age 7, Robert stops at a tent revival and is saved. He takes his dad to PGM but his dad continues drinking. A brick-layer, he falls from a seven-story building and is killed, leaving Robert’s mother with 5 children. Robert works to help the family but continues taking Bible classes and commits to being a missionary to India. He’s drafted after World War II ends, se...

Robert and three buddies escape a North Korean prison camp. After his discharge Robert runs a catering business that helps when he opens a Christian rest home. He takes in his sister’s children, witnesses to his guests and fends off false accusations of misconduct in the rest homes. The first part ends as he is helping missionaries in India and bringing a couple from India to help in his rest home...