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https://ucaqld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/iStock-614048372-1024x683.jpg1024683Reflection from the Moderator, Rev Bruce Moore Luke 14:25-33 Luke tells us that great crowds were travelling with him. You can imagine the excitement, the buzz, the sense that this movement was growing. This passage confronts us with the raw and uncompromising reality of discipleship. Jesus turns and deliberately puts before them the cost of […]