UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas

Robert supports missionaries in India before he goes there as a missionary, paying his own way. There he builds a prayer tower, a children’s home and digs a well for various villages. On his second trip a cobra bites him, but he continues his preaching and feeding people. On his third trip he gets cholera. His fourth trip is his last. Then he meets and marries Kathy.

Jeff is the youngest of six, and his mom and dad neglect and abuse him as a child. Poor, hungry and beaten, he goes to school feeling worthless. He works in his dad’s auto repair shop at 14, builds a fast car that helps his self-image. After high school his parents secretly divorce and sell the house. His mom writes a letter rejecting Jeff. He becomes a drunk, wrecks many cars and motorcycles, eve...

James, one of ten children, never goes to church, quits school at 14 and learns to drink with his brothers. He has many accidents and nearly dies. He marries Wanda, whose mother dislikes his drinking but takes him to revival where he is saved. He makes restitution for stealing and serves the LORD the rest of his life. His wife leaves once but returns. He and daughter, Jean, start a ministry to tee...

Coming from a church that was weak on Biblical doctrine, Ginger has no guidance. She drinks, uses drugs and sleeps around. She marries a drunk and she’s unfaithful, takes a job as a stripper and then works as a “dancer” in a men’s club. She divorces, meets Gary and seduces him into drug use. He becomes a dealer. Her best friend, another dancer, is murdered and Ginger quits the clubs and hard drugs...

Paul grows up without his father but around a drunken uncle. As a child he hears a preacher talk about hell and is terrified. Still, he drinks and steals and ends up in juvenile prison, escapes and goes to maximum juvenile lock up. He drops out of school in the 7th grade, works and drinks; loses his license to a DUI. He meets Cordie and they marry, but he can’t quit drinking. He keeps seeing a Bib...

As a boy, Chris dreams about a grave swallowing him and fears death. His dad takes him to the Catholic church, but he doesn’t understand. Prideful, he doesn’t make friends easily and is accepted by the wrong crowd who expose him to rock music, video games and pornography. His parents divorce. Then a young man at work tells him the gospel and he prays for salvation. He witnesses to his dad, who is...

Tom learns the art of salesmanship as a youth helping his father at auctions; but he also learns to drink and gamble. He quits high school to join the Navy in World War II, but returns to finish. He joins the Air Force during the Korean War, meets Bobbi and they marry. A salesman, he is gone a lot and falls in with shady characters. They rig poker games and Tom is nearly killed several times. Then...

Tom is arrested for counterfeiting money and his wife and sons bear the brunt of the shame. Hit-men are hired to kill him because he knows too much. He decides to work with federal agents and goes into the Witness Protection Program, exposing the mob. A bomb explodes before one trial but Tom continues to testify against the underworld, bringing 36 men to justice. Tom is given leniency for his help...

Michael goes to a Christian boarding school where he doesn’t study hard and misbehaves. When he is 24 he marries Pushpa who loves the Lord and prays for Michael, especially after he goes into politics, leading a band of fierce bodyguards. Factional fighting leads to bloodshed and murder and jail for a year. After 14 years of fighting, Michael cannot sleep and is suicidal. His wife takes him to a p...

Dion's parents’ divorce and his mother takes him to Canada, her homeland. A drunk named Joe moves in and belittles and bullies Dion, who has learned to smoke pot with cousins. Caught shoplifting at 14, Dion is kicked out of his mom’s home at 16. He can’t keep jobs because of his drug use. He’s arrested for armed robbery and is sentenced to a year in prison, then loses his girlfriend. A neighbor ge...

Randy survives several life-threatening incidents as a child; then his father leaves the family of eight children. He works to help from the age of seven, but slips into drinking and drugs. Mostly illiterate, he works hard but spends everything on cocaine. Becoming homeless, he and a friend turn to robbery. Randy is caught and goes to jail where he learns to read the Bible and meets Christ. Releas...

During combat Richard vows to serve God, but afterward slides sideways until his parents’ prayers intervene. He goes to Bible college, meets Jean and they marry. They become missionaries to Indians in Mexico, then start various ministries to Spanish-speakers in Texas. Jean writes Bible doctrine books before she dies in 2008. Richard is still in ministry.

His parents divorce when James is five and he never sees his father again. Feeling that his mother has rejected him, he turns to drugs and gangs. His mother takes him to a Curandero, a witch doctor but James gets addicted to heroin, burglarizing houses to support his habit. Violence reigns. His mother keeps him out of prison when he’s 17, but after more crimes, James goes to prison at 21. During h...

James admits his crimes to the parole board and serves three years of a 16-year-sentence. He reconciles with his mother, works for a non-profit ministry and is promoted several times; but his church doesn’t welcome him, so he reaches out to them. He gets a B.A. degree and then proceeds to get an M.B.A degree and serves with the ministry that helped him in prison. Today he’s a chaplain, married and...

Jim’s father is crippled in an accident at work, and his overwrought mother tries to abort her pregnancy: James. Weeks prior to the accident, his 14-year-old aunt is abused by three men, who are shot and killed by the girl’s brother. Jim’s grandmother prays and Jim is born. The family struggles in poverty until World War II. Jim grows up, stubborn and difficult. He becomes a sports nut. His dad re...

After his father dies, James’ mother goes to a nearby church. James goes, then quits, then returns and is saved. He begins witnessing to his family, and a brother is saved. But his brother switches churches, saying the nearby one is flawed. Ultimately, James agrees and goes to his brother’s church where he surrenders to ministry. Before his mother dies, she reveals her abortion attempt, and James...

Penny is born prematurely but survives only to suffer double pneumonia at six. The family suffers through the Depression, but Penny goes to Bible college where she meets George. They marry, graduate and go into ministry. Four children are born, but the youngest is murdered at 19. After George dies in 1989, Penny serves with missionaries in Mexico. James Wilkins is a guest speaker at a meeting, and...

Drinking is prevalent in Mark’s family of nine children; talking isn’t. When Mark uses his dad’s van without permission, his older brother beat him up. Mark drinks too much and drives his snowmobile into a semi-truck, nearly dying; speech impaired. After recovering he goes back to drinking, his mother uses tough love and he goes to rehab in Chicago. There he prays and Christians mentor him until h...

An only child, Nancy’s dad commits suicide months after she marries Steve. They are in Alaska as teachers. She has stomach pains and fears death, especially after she has several dreams. Desperately, she prays, and feels that God took away the pain. Wanting to learn God’s name, Nancy studies all the religions, but none of them have a God who talks to His people. A woman suggests she read the Psalm...

Disillusioned with religion, Steve becomes an atheist. He enjoys academic success and moves to Alaska for adventures. Returns home with wife, Nancy, and they have a daughter. After Nancy is saved, he decides to leave but her pastor intrigues him with unusual faith acts, so his plans change. They travel to a retreat to pursue the validity of another one of Nancy’s dreams about an earthquake. Steve...

Fenton is adopted from an orphanage at age four. His new dad abandons them when Fenton is 11. He fails two grades: first and fourth, but he’s saved at camp when he’s 17. He serves the Lord eagerly. After the army he marries Carol. They go to Bible college, have two children, and he teaches and stays busy in Christian service. His daughter turns from the faith taught to her. Fenton resigns from the...

His alcoholic mother abandons the family when Bruce is eight, and his dad puts him in an orphanage for two years. Bruce has a speech problem. When he goes home, his sister and he break into churches. He goes to juvenile lockup till he’s 16, where he learns to work hard. Back home he marries reluctantly at 21. His wife and he pray with some Christians, but salvation would come later. Their marriage...

Growing up, Jerry comes between his stepdad and Mom when they fight. He becomes a brawler as a teenager, drinking, crashing his car while drunk. He plays the bass guitar in a small band, wants to be a rock star and writes songs. Looking for lyrics, he searches the Bible, then reads Revelation and is scared. He quits drinking, reads the Bible and goes to a coworker’s church, where he is saved. He b...

Karen’s father is an alcoholic who beats her mother. He abandons them when she’s four, and she spends her life longing for a reconciliation. He wants nothing to do with them even when he’s dying. Karen’s grandmother loves the Lord and takes her to church, but Karen becomes an alcoholic during a first, failed marriage. She weds Bud and they adopt children. Working at a crisis pregnancy center, Kare...

Homeless by choice at 15, Butch manages to elude reform school, unlike his two older brothers. His mother tries but cannot help him. His older brother dies from drinking-induced pneumonia. Panhandling, he meets a woman who sends him and friends to a mission. He leaves, then returns nine times. His drunkenness leads to crime, and he is stabbed in the stomach but lives. His mother goes to the missio...