UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas

Marion grows up in Christian home but turns from the Lord as a teenager. She becomes a surgical nurse but begins drinking after graduation and cannot stop. When alcohol affects her professionally, she resigns from nursing, tries counseling and A.A. but cannot quit. Her mother continues to pray for her. Marion meets Jimmy, another drunk and they marry. After five years and nearly dying of alcoholis...

The oldest of 11 children, Rob learns at age 16 that his dad is not his real father. His mother admits that she wanted to abort him. His parents trick him into working to save money for a car, then take the car he buys. He gets even by exposing their dishonesty at work. He gets his own home, but drinks & does drugs, falls into depression and lives with an unstable girl, much like his mother. When...

After his salvation, Rob throws away the alcohol and drugs, and his wife Gail is enraged. She comes and goes, taking and leaving their daughter, then gets pregnant by someone else, but he accepts and loves the 2nd daughter. Their marriage ends when she slashes his clothes and stabs him. She takes everything. He tries to understand but turns from the faith after the divorce. Finally, he repents and...

The middle child in a large religious family in Indiana, Sandy is mocked for staying pure in high school. Anxious and withdrawn, in college she rooms with a woman who gently leads her to Christ. When she gains the courage to tell her parents, they question the radical change in her. After graduating, she stays with the ministry Navigators, working in Peoria and then Colorado Springs, where she rem...

Randy’s family is prosperous but godless. They never go to church. At 16 he’s invited to a youth camp where he hears the Gospel and prays to receive Christ. In college he is discipled, graduates and joins the Marines where he becomes an officer. He marries and they have three daughters; but his wife commits adultery with a friend while he’s stationed overseas. She divorces him and he gets custody...

Tom grows up going to church with his family, but his older brother dominates him and he learns to fight. He also has a fascination with fire and firecrackers, setting a dumpster on fire when he’s 12. He has many risky encounters as a teenager … gets a job in a grocery store and steals to buy marijuana, which he denies when he’s confronted. He finally quits his job and becomes a security guard at...

Tom leads his cousin astray, then tries to make amends after he’s saved. The cousin rejects Christ because his parents’ divorce leaves him bitter. The cousin loves to travel and goes to Israel with Tom’s church. There he witnesses the prayers of a parishioner and God’s answer; and he longs for inclusion. The parishioner leads the cousin to Christ and God answers his prayer at the Garden of Gethsem...

Charles grows up on a farm in Georgia. At 13 he and some friends break into places and end up in jail. His probation officer helps him. Also at 13 he and friends form a band. His dad dies of a brain tumor when Charles is 15. One of the boys gets saved and drops out of the band. Charles is bitter but goes to a Bible study, then prays for salvation at 18. He graduates, trains to be a medical technic...

John’s mother dies and his mean stepmother beats him so he runs away at nine, linking up with Steve, a hobo who teaches him to drink. At thirteen John goes it alone till age 17 when loneliness drives him to his dad, an alcoholic who rejects him. John spends 28 years on Skid Row in Chicago, till he comes to Pacific Garden Mission where he’s saved.

Ray’s mother is Jewish, his father a Gentile. Ray is ADHD and discovers surfing when he’s 13. He lives for the sport. After graduation he works in a bank where he meets Sue and they marry. He has everything; but death awakens him to the futility of life. A surfer friend leads him to Christ, and Ray enthusiastically makes converts of his mother and buddies. Zeal without knowledge. The first part en...

After he leads his surfing buddies to Christ, Ray discovers that they are falling away and dying from drug use. Ray writes tracts and books, discovering the all-important truth: knowing God’s Law before grace can be comprehended. He begins a ministry that he still pursues in the U.S.

Tani and his parents live with his grandparents in Albania, suffering under Communism, which falls in 1990. Missionaries come, preaching on the streets where Tani’s dad exhibits his paintings. They give him Bibles in the Albanian language, and Tani’s dad receives Christ while reading the Gospel of John. He stops painting to evangelize. Naïve Albanians fall into financial pyramid schemes that fail,...

As a pastor, Tani’s dad carries his sermons to remote Albanian villages that have no radio or TV. He dreams of starting a radio station to reach people. Just as he gets the station started, he has a heart attack and nearly dies. Efti comes to work for the station and she and Tani plan to marry. Tani’s father takes a month-long trip to the U.S. and dies of a heart attack. Tani loses faith in God, b...

“Jennie” grows up with recurring high fevers from a bad kidney. She slips into depression after graduation from high school and quits her job. Unable to talk with a psychiatrist, he hospitalizes her and gives her shock therapy. When the insurance dries up, she is put in the state hospital. There she cries out to God who miraculously heals her. She meets and marries Harry, but after their son is bo...

Norma is raised by foster parents but sees and loves her blood mother. Mischievous but determined, she goes to Bible college, then visits her dad in Oregon where she is bitten by mosquitoes and contracts a disease that puts her in a coma for seven weeks. Her foster mother cares for Norma, who is unable to speak, walk or even swallow. After 13 years she walks and learns to talk some, becoming a wit...

Cathie and her sister are late-in-life babies whose parents send them to church but otherwise let them do as they please. Both girls run wild, smoking, drinking and sleeping around. Cathie runs away several times with different boys, marries and divorces and uses drugs. She thinks she’s a Christian but the first part ends as she gets her second divorce and second abortion.

Cathie marries a third time, a man who rescues her from an abuser; but she cannot be faithful, and the third marriage ends. She uses cocaine, becomes a dealer and police arrest her. Sentenced to seven years in prison, she has Bible study with a mentor from the outside but Cathie isn’t saved. When she’s released, she goes on a cruise where she meets Christians who help lead her to Christ. Now minis...

Charles’ father dies of alcoholism, so his mother raises her children alone. Born again when he’s in high school, she persuades him to attend a tent revival where he and his fiancée, Eleanor are saved. They marry and Charles fights in World War II in North Africa and Anzio. After the war he attends Bible school and becomes a counselor to pastors and churches having conflict. He starts a ministry o...

Jackson grows up in Taiwan, excels in school and goes to Louisiana to get a PhD in chemistry. He starts an import business and does so well that he gives up his research. But his marriage suffers and he and his wife divorce. He moves his business to L.A., suffers health problems and tries Chi, breath-control to influence fate. Spirits of darkness oppress his life and he withdraws. A Christian bank...

Beverly’s parents are drunks who don’t want her when she’s born unexpectedly and prematurely with cerebral palsy. Her grandmother tells her about Jesus. Her drunken father beats her and her brothers abuse her also. Strangers violate her and leave her for dead. Sent to a girl’s home, she runs away and plans suicide until God speaks to her heart. A rescue mission counselor takes her in and teaches h...

Scott hungers for answers to life’s questions but his father is 40 years older and doesn’t know how to communicate well. Addicted to pornography at a young age, Scott hides his secret until he breaks the law at age 20, ruining a career in the air force. He spends 80 days in jail, during which his dad dies of cancer. A pastor visits and Scott goes to his church where he hears the gospel and surrend...

Bob’s depression starts when his fiancée breaks their engagement. He drinks too much, then smokes pot and begins dealing with a buddy. A jealous girlfriend turns him in and he loses his career in the air force. A lawyer helps him avoid prison but not the prison of despair. He takes anti-depressants until a friend gets saved and tells him about Jesus. After reading the Bible, Bob cries out to the L...

Doug, who already lives in fantasy when he goes to college, becomes a drug-addict and drops out rather than flunk. He joins the Navy to avoid the draft and continues to use drugs. But he fears becoming a heroine junkie. A believer witnesses and takes him to church where Doug prays for salvation and quits using. He meets Debbie who has joined the Navy to escape foster care and who drinks to be acce...

She survived being dragged from a car for a block, but Denise Cooper almost didn’t survive her own bad choices. Learn how she did in her true testimony, another dramatization on UNSHACKLED!

Why do some people put up with abuse? Kelly Stigliano did for years until she learned that Someone had suffered for her. Don’t miss this timely true testimony, another dramatization on UNSHACKLED!