UNSHACKLED! Audio Dramas

<p>When the church comes to plant his corn, bringing a meal and testimonies, Jesse still won’t go to church until fall revival when seven different farmers come to invite them to church. Finally, he and his wife go and both get saved. Owen, the son and narrator, prays for salvation two weeks later and eventually the whole family receives Christ. Owen becomes a missionary evangelist traveling the world. Jesse dies in his arms.</p>

<p>“Clara” is raised in a Christian family where the parents pray and read Scripture. She rebels against a repressive church, goes to nursing school to get away from home. She works far from home in a psychiatric unit, absorbing godless philosophy. Drinking in bars, she ends up living with a man she eventually marries. They adopt children; Clara adopts alcohol and becomes addicted. She has blackouts, DWI, attempts suicide. Her mother comes to help, takes her home where a pastor’s wife leads Clara to the Lord.</p>

<p>Jeff’s family is dysfunctional. Dad gone a lot and depressed when he’s home. Jeff is a peacemaker who likes to help others. When his best friend is killed in an accident, Jeff decides to join the Peace Corps. He spends two years in Korea, helping fight TB and leprosy. A leper with faith in Christ prompts Jeff to read the Bible. He helps a missionary with orphan children. When he comes home, he teaches middle school where he’s invited to Bible study and receives Christ. Now works for Christian ministry to the blind.</p>

<p>Steve’s parents run many businesses, so home is chaotic. His grandmother takes him to church and he’s baptized; but Jesus seems distant to him. Overweight and with acne, Steve withdrew into fantasy and drugs. Joins the Navy, explores the occult, attempts suicide. He then does well in the military but explores homosexuality and adultery. Drinks heavily. A civilian again he tries education. Disillusioned, he turns to the Bible and meets Jesus, encouraged by his step-sister. Now in prison ministry, hoping to be a missionary to Cuba.</p>

<p>Greg Locke’s grandmother loves the Lord and prays for Greg. He needs prayer because he gets addicted to rap music at age thirteen. By then he’s already stealing and has been before a judge three times. Wanting to be a rap star, he does well and has a chance to make a TV commercial. But the court orders his mother to put him in a home to learn discipline. She chooses a Christian home, and while there Greg goes to a revival where he is saved. Now an evangelist.</p>

<p>Ray Peterman had a problem, one he denied and desperately tried to cover up. Fortunately, he also had a wife who loved him; and with the help of a Friend that sticks closer than a brother, he’s a different man today.</p>

<p>If you’ve ever pretended to be something you weren’t, then you can identify with Frank Edwards. “The truth will out”, they say. And the truth is what set him free to be real, honest and successful.</p>

<p>In an age of permissiveness and shattered families, how does a young girl learn to say “no”? Betty Coon struggled and failed repeatedly, a slave to her own weak will. Parental Guidance is suggested for this remarkable true story of how Betty’s will and her life were transformed.</p>

<p>Gangs seem to offer protection and acceptance to troubled young people. But Ricky Bueno learned they were a trap that dragged him down.</p>

<p>Christine’s parents divorce, and she is raised by paternal grandparents. Grandmother loves the Lord, and Christine accepts Christ after listening to “Unshackled!”. She goes to live with her father at age fifteen, but he mocks her faith. She joins the Army as a nurse, meets Rob and they marry. He gives up dabbling in the occult to join her in faith. Commitment to Christ antagonizes his family, but her father receives Christ after kidney problems.</p>

<p>His father is imprisoned for embezzlement when Wesley is twelve, embittering Wesley and his mother. They lose home and live with relatives, who teach Wesley about God, Whom he rejects. Aunt sends him to Christian camp where he receives Christ. Mother is furious, won’t help him go to Bible school. As an evangelist, Wesley falls in love with Dorothy, who urges him to find his father, which he does. Wesley’s father receives Christ after hearing his son preach.</p>

<p>Robert grows up on farm caring for animals. He reads the Bible in sixth grade but still lives sinful life in high school. A co-worker explains the gospel and Robert prays to receive Christ at age twenty. He marries Deb and they head to Florida for Bible school. Plans are on hold when their first baby is born hydrocephalic. Their faith is tested through three years of medical and financial crises. Baby dies, but God gives them healthy daughter and son.</p>

<p>When Brian is ten, his parents divorce. Running the streets, he learns to drink, fight and steal. He buys a motorcycle and runs with Hells Angels. He shoots a man in self-defense and is arrested for attempted murder. He spends time in prison for weapons violations. He marries but is unable to change; plans to leave his wife on a cross-country motorcycle run when his wife receives Christ and prays for him. Brian surrenders to Jesus and now has a prison ministry.</p>

<p>Born in Holland to atheists, Andrew comes to the U.S. at nineteen. The family settles in Iowa where Andrew’s inventive ability keeps him at work as a machinist. “Six dirty Swedes” who work for him get saved and the change is so extraordinary, he goes to revival to see for himself. Makes commitment, buys a Bible and reads about Jesus. Genuine repentance leads to new life. Invents many things but also has evangelical ministry around the world.</p>

<p>A sadistic stepmother causes Robert and sisters to run away when he is three. Confined to an orphanage until he is sixteen, Robert wants revenge and becomes a pugilist. He joins the Navy, drinks too much and fights in World War II but stalks his stepmother while on leave. A Christian in his unit demonstrates God’s love and forgiveness, and Robert visits the man’s brother, who leads him to Christ. Robert marries Marjorie and becomes a pastor.</p>

<p>At age eight Bernie loses father; but with Mother’s dedication, he grows up wanting to be a missionary to China. Bernie’s love of music distracts him from the faith, but he surrenders to Christ in college. He spends war in Texas teaching radar and doing evangelism; marries Jeanette. After the war, China is closed, so the couple goes instead to Japan as missionaries. Bernie helps launch Pacific Broadcasting Association.</p>

<p>Phil grows up alienated from his condemning father. Clumsiness leads to broken bones and scorn. Phil’s bitterness finds relief in heavy drinking and then drugs. Car wrecks cause him to wonder about God, but he follows the world and has an affair with a married woman. His sister and husband witness about salvation through Christ. Phil quits drinking, then commits his life to Christ. He marries and leads his terminally ill father to the Lord.</p>

<p>Mary Jane marries Bud, who also has cerebral palsy, and helps him in his printing business. She miscarries twice, so they adopt a son. Then she gives birth to a daughter. Both want to be missionaries but can’t. Bud retires as printer and dies of cancer. Mary Jane begins ministry teaching the church to reach out to the handicapped. Today she travels and teaches around the world, including China!</p>

<p>In high school Henry falls in love with Lois, who loves the Lord while his family mistrusts church and Christians. They marry and he tries church for a while, but the world is more important. As a truck driver, he’s gone a lot, suffers illness, wife urges him to trust in the Lord. He refuses. Children grow up and marriage falls apart. Henry tries suicide, talks divorce. At a truck stop, a man invites Henry to gospel service and gives him a tract. Henry reads, prays and gives his life to Christ. Marriage restored, he’s now in ministry to truckers.</p>

<p>His parents’ divorce convinces Greg that children break up marriages. Raised by his unloving father, drugs become his mother. Greg hungers for love and find it in Diane. After their marriage, he spends all their money on drugs and insists she abort their baby, turning her against him. He hears the gospel driving home, and marvels that Diane is suddenly more loving. She is saved. Greg overhears the gospel as Diane and friend have Bible study, and he prays for salvation. Unable to have children, they adopted a baby girl. Now serve as missionaries in New Zealand.</p>

<p>Rough childhood leaves Diane hungering for love. She meets Greg and wants to quit school, but her dad persuades her to graduate. Diane and Greg marry, but he doesn’t give up drugs. Friends find Christ, and Diane goes to church but Greg refuses. When Diane gets pregnant, he insists she get an abortion. Their marriage fails as her love turns to hate. Then she is saved. First part ends when a friend and she meet for Bible study at home, which Greg hates.</p>

<p>Drunken abusive father puts Steve’s mother in mental hospital. Living with Grandpa introduces him to love and fear of God but is short-lived. Poverty and fear are Steve’s lot in life. He runs away at thirteen. Sleeping here and there, he stays in school. Friends take him to revival one night and he wants salvation but is too ashamed. A friend leads him to Christ in the parking lot. His friend’s family adopt Steve. Now married with nine children.</p>

<p>His father dies when Ron is ten. Then Ron gets rheumatic fever and spends a year in a convalescent home. Family disintegrates as Mom drinks and kids turn to drugs and crime. Many confrontations with police, ever trapped, scared and risking death, Ron goes to prison at age 25. Hears gospel message and wants to change, but goes back to drugs and crime when he’s released. Sister takes him to church where he is saved. Now serves in prison ministry.</p>

<p>In spite of a God-fearing, loving family, James is a rebellious teenager who lies, vandalizes and drinks. When a friend accidentally shoots him below the eye, James fears death but is too proud to pray. He survives and carries on as before. God and his parents help him through crises, but James is ungrateful and bitter. Unable to bear his sin, he cries out to God, then talks with a pastor who leads him to Christ and a changed life.</p>

<p>“Polly”’s mother is born-again, so he grows up in church knowing about Jesus. His dad is a drunkard, but Polly hates the taste of alcohol until he joins the Navy. Afterward, he drinks too much, even after he marries. While drunk, a stranger offers him a ride and shoots Polly, who nearly dies. Wife receives Christ, Polly is left nearly blind. His drinking worsens until family takes him to state hospital for rehab. There he cries out to God and is gloriously saved.</p>

<p>Willie becomes addicted to pornography at fourteen, cocaine at twenty-two. Alcohol leads him to violence and blackouts. He’s arrested but slips by with fines. He lives with a woman, decides to marry and wants his dad to be best man. His dad is dying of cancer, and Willie sees his dad accept Christ before he dies. Willie’s drug addiction grows so bad, his wife issues ultimatum. He goes to see brother, is discipled by Christian, prays for salvation at work.</p>

<p>Nadine endures abandonment by her mother and an abusive father who raises them on a farm. She and sister do all the farm work and go to school. Her health breaks down. A school friend invites her to church where she learns God loves her. She goes to Bible college. Sisters profess faith in Christ, but father dies without repentance. Nadine and husband, Roger, serve the Lord in children’s ministries.</p>

<p>Ralph grows up longing to help his single mom, who struggles to provide for the family. He takes odd jobs, starts drinking, quits school, gets in trouble. He marries at seventeen. Drawn into organized crime, Ralph is confronted by a hitman but dissuades him. He’s nearly killed in an accident, but lives to serve his time in prison. During second time in prison, no one visits except evangelist, who gives him a Bible. Ralph reads and believes. Marriage healed; he now runs a rescue mission.</p>

<p>A nightingale cannot sing a note, until it first hears the song of another nightingale. A tiny template planted in the brain of the little bird must be triggered by its hearing the notes sung by another nightingale, not those of a robin, or lark or bluebird, only the nightingales song. Perhaps there is a “template” implanted in us, which will be activated by hearing the word of God. This is what happened to the man whose story you will hear on Unshackled.</p>

<p>Rebellious streak begins at age twelve and includes smoking pot, breaking rules and resisting authority. Drug use leads to job losses. During one drug party, a guy reads the Bible. Jim is drawn to the gospel but hates to give up drugs. Goes to a rock concert where singer blasphemes God. Horrified, Jim asks God to save him right there. Quits drugs and later witnesses to the same rock group. Now an evangelist.</p>

<p>Stephen learns not only the Bible but manners and hygiene. He becomes an evangelist, menaced by the revolutionaries he once followed. He marries and has five children, learns to preach in English, overcomes inferiority complex. Mother comes to revival; he leads her to Christ and overcomes bitterness toward her. Eventually finds his father and leads him to repentance. Stephen now a world-wide evangelist.</p>

<p>Born in Zimbabwe, Stephen’s mother abandons him and his two younger siblings when he is seven. Aunt lets him sleep in chicken coop. He forages in garbage cans for food. Completely illiterate, he tries to hang himself at fourteen but is rescued. Joins revolutionary gang bombing churches and banks. Tries to bomb a tent revival, gets saved instead. Part One ends with Stephen being discipled by a white missionary.</p>

<p>Bill is New York City policeman who works hard, drinks harder. His son is estranged by Bill’s harsh treatment. Wife gets saved and Bill fights her church-going and prayers. Bills health fails and sister invites evangelist to visit. Bill goes to service and receives Christ. As he retires, he goes to Bible school, but still can’t relate to his son. Bills pastors churches and teaches Bible school. Asks son’s forgiveness but dies before reconciliation.</p>

<p>Rebecca is intelligent and goes to college at seventeen. Father gets saved, but she’s disinterested. Several men take advantage of her in college, then her boyfriend abandons her when she gets pregnant. He is killed in an accident. Rebecca takes daughter to church and gives her life to Christ. Then she is led astray by cult church and loses touch with reality. Diagnosed schizophrenic, she gets therapy and medication. Now a writer and speaker.</p>

<p>Rich replaces church with parties when he’s in high school. Drug addiction leads to aimless life. He works but moves often, feels lonely. First marriage lasts only three weeks. Discovery of brother’s homosexuality leaves questioning all beliefs. Lives with Julie but cocaine addiction devours their life. She has two abortions then goes into rehab. Rich is so desolate he cries out to God, watches TV evangelist, prays for salvation. Witnesses to gay brother who dies of AIDS.</p>

<p>Being in military family leaves Julie insecure. Drinking gives her confidence and she becomes alcoholic in high school. Graduates, goes to beauty school. Meets Rich and they move to Florida to sell cocaine. They steal and work part-time to survive. Julie gets pregnant twice, aborts both because she can’t stop drinking. Guilt makes her drink more. Prays for salvation but doesn’t surrender will. Rich gets saved while she’s in rehab and they follow Christ together.</p>

<p>Are you widely respected? Do you live a clean life? Do you enjoy considerable success? Are you considered to be at the top of your game in whatever field of endeavor you are in? Soon you will meet a man who was all that and more. He was a champion in the fine art of fisticuffs until he realized that entering the battle for the souls of men would be the greatest victory of all.</p>

<p>His parents divorce when he’s young, and Victor grows up shy and uncertain. He nearly drowns at fourteen. He and a friend are caught stealing food and shot by police with mystery gun. After surgery he can’t walk for months. He finishes high school with awards for his paintings but is too shy to accept them. He gets a job and learns his boss is his real father, confusing him. Girlfriend’s cruel behavior after daughter is born drives him to a pastor friend who leads him to Christ. He gets custody of daughter when girlfriend dies, raises her in the Lord.</p>

<p>Father’s abuse drives Fred to rebel, and he’s put in a home for troubled boys until his dad commits suicide. He graduates to drug dealing, is arrested but lies and is treated lightly. Has good job but loses it because of cocaine habit. Crack addiction makes him unstable, and he faces death or prison. He’s arrested, but a friend’s pastor explains salvation. Fred goes home and prays. He goes to Christian rehab, then serves two years in prison. Now married and in a church ministry for drug addicts.</p>

<p>Paul Reiter didn't learn to ride a bicycle until he was twelve years old, yet he overcame his problem and became a successful fighter pilot in the Navy. But pride got the best of him and that was the beginning of his downfall. Hear all about it on this episode of UNSHACKLED!</p>

<p>Newscasts regularly show Muslim crowds shouting “Death to America.” Is there hope that any of these people can change? Once part of that chanting crowd, one young man’s life shows change can occur. Listen to the true-life story of Michael Germi all on this episode of UNSHACKLED!</p>

<p>When a leading doctor wakes up blind in one eye, he fears his medical practice is ruined. Will he find healing? Hear more when we broadcast the classic true story of Jack and Marilyn Sternberg now on Unshackled!</p>