November 16, 2025

“Many Will Come in My Name”

“Many Will Come in My Name” A sermon based on Luke 21:5-19 delivered
by Rev. Alison Andrea Young on November 16, 2025 at the First Congregational
UCC of Onekama, Michigan.

“Then Jesus began to say to them, “beware that no one leads you astray. Many will come in my name and say, ‘1 am he!’ and they will lead many astray.” As people of the 20th and 21st Centuries, we hardly need to search very far to know what Jesus was trying to warn us about. Who can forget Jim Jones at Jonestown administering the grape Kool-Aid communion, which was poisoned, killing hundreds of people in his name? This event was so significant that a catch phrase “he or she drank the Kool-Aid” has become part of our vernacular.. . .

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