Top photo- Oak-wilt mat pointed out via Wikipedia

Middle photo- Oak-wilt cycle via Wikipedia.com

Bottom photo- USFS oak wilt disease presentation in 2017 via Wikipedia

Oak Wilt in Michigan!

Another pestilence is attacking trees in Michigan. This time it is oak wilt. Per Wikipedia, "Oak wilt is a fungal disease caused by the organism Bretziella fagacearum that threatens Quercus spp (the oak tree family)." The tree usually does not survive the disease. It even persists in the dead tree and its roots for a few years. It can spread from an infected tree's root to a neighboring tree. "The disease is limited to the eastern half of the United States; first described in the 1940s in the Upper Mississippi River Valley."

Join us as a US Forest Service biologist, who is responsible for tracking oak wilt in the northeast lower peninsula, gives us more information on how to recognize and contain the spread of this disease this Sunday at 3:30 a.m., Monday at 4 p.m., Wednesday at 9 p.m., and Thursday at 1 p.m. ONLY on STR stations, STR apps, or STR.fm.

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Health and Liberty Alliance

The COVID-vaccine mandates tested individuals' freedom of choice. In response to this, the Health and Liberty Alliance was forged. Two of the co-founders, Dr. Lela Gilbert Lewis and Scott Ritsema, join us for a look back at lessons that were learned in that highly charged environment Sunday at 5 p.m., Monday at 10 a.m. and Wednesday 12:01 a.m. ONLY on STR stations, STR apps, or STR.fm.

Liberty and Health Alliance Mission Statement:

Liberty and Health Alliance exists to serve humanity through the promotion of medical freedom and the uncensored liberty to speak without recrimination while upholding God’s methods as the best means of optimizing physical, mental, and spiritual health. Liberty and Health Alliance is a ministry founded by Seventh-day Adventist Christians that believe humanity has received the gift of life and the offer of whole-person health from God. Since every individual has been endowed by the Creator with liberty of conscience, it rests with the individual to make informed health decisions—through free choice and as a duty to God. We welcome and support people of all backgrounds and faiths in that journey.

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Be a part of Strong Tower Radio by joining us personally at one or more of the following scheduled events:

12/09 11:10 a.m. David at Marion SDA Church

12/09 5:00 p.m. STR Variety Hour at the Saginaw SDA Church

12/16 11:00 a.m. David at 13th St. SDA Church

12/16 11:00 a.m. Kam at Lansing SDA Church

12/16 3:00 p.m. Grand Haven Station Praise Report at the Muskegon SDA Church, 3040 Evanston Ave., Muskegon MI 49442

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Pastor Rod Thompson's classic Christmas sermon this Thursday on STR's Fresh Manna.

Sermons on STR

Here are the upcoming Fresh Manna sermons and speakers that will be streamed on StrongTowerRadio.org, STR.fm, and on Strong Tower Radio's local stations Monday-Friday at 2 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Thanksgiving themed sermons

This Week-

11/24 Steven Conway- "The Truth on Thankfulness"

Christmas themed sermons

Next Week(s)-

11/27 Victor Vaughn- "A Christmas Parable"

11/28 Daniel Ferras- "The Fullness of Time"

11/29 Rod Thompson- "The Indescribable Gift"

11/30 Bob Stewart- "What If?"

12/1 Mac Mills- "Herald Angels"

12/4 Bela Kobor- "The Fullness of Time"

12/5 Ron Kelly- "The Journey"

12/6 Sean Reed- "The Appointed Time"

12/7 Mac Mills- "Give Glory"

12/8 Raymond Holmes- "What Christmas is all About"

STR Sabbath Sermons- Saturdays at 11 a.m.

11/25 Ron Kelly- "Israel, Antichrist, and The Messiah"

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Building in Heaven

A couple came to see their pastor and said that they wanted to give more money to the church and to world missions. “But we've always had this dream of a beautiful house in the country, and we've been planning on building that house,” they confessed. “But frankly, if we do that, we won't have money for the church and God's Kingdom. We keep praying about it, but we cannot seem to shake this vision that we have. We feel like God has given us our dream of this beautiful house. Are we wrong?”

The pastor thought about it for a moment and then said to them. “I don't think it's wrong. I think God has given you a dream of a perfect, ideal, wonderful home. The only problem is that you have to have that dream house here in this world.” God has a dream house far beyond anything we can comprehend. That dream house is coming. We don't have to build it here. Any house we build here is going to be ravished by time, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, carpenter ants, freeway bypasses, you name it! Even if, somehow, that house lasts, guess who isn’t going to? We will not in this world, but we will last through all eternity. So, does not it make much more sense to lay up for ourselves treasures in heaven and give the building materials of our financial material assets to the Carpenter from Nazareth, right now, so that he can be using them to build that house in heaven?

Take a trip to a junkyard as a reminder of what will ultimately happen. Why are so many Christians today afraid to die? I think the answer to that question comes back to exactly the answer to the question, “What's the greatest deterrent to giving today?” The answer is that we have made this world our home. The Bible tells us something else -- we are pilgrims, aliens, strangers, and ambassadors. 

Most Christians are storing up treasures on earth. What does this mean? That means that every day of our lives, as we get closer to the day of our earthly death, we are backing away from our treasures because we've laid them up on earth. Jesus says to turn around, look the other direction, and face eternity head on. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. Then, every day of our lives, we will be moving toward our treasures instead of backing away from them. He who spends his life backing away from his treasures has reason to despair. He who spends his life headed toward his treasure has reason to rejoice. 

Strong Tower Radio has one goal in mind—Take this gospel to the world NOW! Join the team now! Send your building material on ahead, enjoy your mansion Jesus is building for you.

George Dronen,

Retired Associate Director of Development

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