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In our Chapel series, we're exploring the scriptures in The Gospel of Luke. This week, we're hearing about Luke's Prologue, presented by Dr Rachel Krohn.

Exploring the role of work when it comes to your faith.

Exploring the role of work when it comes to your faith.

Exploring the role of work when it comes to your faith.

Exploring the role of work when it comes to your faith.

Exploring the role of work when it comes to your faith.

Exploring the role of work when it comes to your faith.

Exploring the role of work when it comes to your faith.

Exploring the role of work when it comes to your faith.

Exploring the role of work when it comes to your faith.

Exploring the role of work when it comes to your faith.

Exploring the role of work when it comes to your faith.

Welcome to Episode 4 of our Chapel Podcast series "Fruit of the spirit". This week's fruit is peace, presented by Dr Paul Jones.

Welcome to Episode 3 of our Chapel Podcast series "Fruit of the spirit". This week's fruit is self control, presented by Rev Nigel Rogers.

Welcome to Episode 9 of our Chapel Podcast series "Fruit of the spirit". This week's fruit is gentleness, presented by Dylan Katthagan.

Welcome to Episode 8 of our Chapel Podcast series "Fruit of the spirit". This week's fruit is Faithfulness, presented by Revd Dr Helen Dick.

Welcome to Episode 7 of our Chapel Podcast series "Fruit of the spirit". This week's fruit is Generosity, presented by Simon Gomersall

Welcome to Episode 6 of our Chapel Podcast series "Fruit of the spirit". This week's fruit is Kindness, presented by Dr Denise Powell.

Welcome to Episode 5 of our Chapel Podcast series "Fruit of the spirit". This week's fruit is Patience presented by Emma Nicholls.

Welcome to Episode 3 of our Chapel Podcast series "Fruit of the spirit". This week's fruit is Joy, presented by our Lecturer in Old Testament & Hebrew, Dr Rachel Krohn.

Welcome to Episode 1 of our Chapel Podcast series "Fruit of the spirit". This week we will hear an introduction to the fruits, presented by our Lecturer in New Testament & Greek, Dr John Frederick.

Welcome to Episode 2 of our Chapel Podcast series "Fruit of the spirit". This week's fruit is Love, presented by Dr Jamie Smith.

Trinity Lecturer in Historical and Contemporary Mission, Simon Gomersall, shared this Easter reflection at Toowong Uniting Church, drawing on insight from the church’s history to make sense of our current circumstances.

Rev Karen Ross draws out the key aspects of a pathway into God’s presence through exploring Psalm 130. It is a Psalm that reflects a deep cry of the heart for God’s healing, forgiving and transforming presence.

As Trinity College Queensland embarks on a semester of chapel services focused on the Psalms, Simon Gomersall launches the series with a reflection on Psalm 1, highlighting the moral categories necessary to make sense of many aspects of Christian theology including God's indescribable grace.

Learn about the role our emotions ought to play in discerning the will of God and how to make good decisions which truly reflect God’s will. Listen now!

Today’s gospel reading invites us to reflect on that fact that when we don’t think much on the corrupting power of sin and the destructive power of death, we won’t make much of the cross and resurrection of Jesus. Conversely if we only see the beauty, by "amusing ourselves to death", we become distracted from the realities of sin and brokenness in our midst. The gospel call us to view the world not as it is in its present brokenness, or in its partial beauty, but as it will be in its future blessedness. In this way, we rejoice in the beauty that is already here but we are given eyes to see the eternal weight of glory and beauty that is our inheritance—now in the present and forevermore—in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Today the college was pleased to welcome as Chapel speaker Mike Hands, Pastor of the New Life Brisbane church plant, reflecting on Mark 14:3-9, with challenging and encouraging words unpacking the nature of, and motives behind, our worship of God.

Continuing the series in Mark’s gospel, this week Simon Gomersall reflects on Mark 11:27-12:17, exploring the question of Jesus’ authority which profoundly challenged the religious and political assumption of his day.

What does it mean to be human, and created in God's image? With incredible advances in bio and medical technology, where do we draw the line with how we "enhance" ourselves? What will we be able to do to and with the human body by 2030 ... and should we? Trinity College Queensland's Dr Victoria Lorrimar explores these questions with Scott Guyatt in this episode of the Project Plenty podcast.

On the occasion of the commissioning of Dr Paul Jones to the position of Principal of Trinity College Queensland, Simon Gomersall reflects on Mark 8:22-36, which continues in the Trinity Chapel series from Mark's Gospel, a passage that contains the most important question anyone can ever consider.

In this week's Chapel sermon Dr Victoria Lorrimar takes a look at Jesus' exchange with the Syrophoenician woman in Mark 7. "Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs." How do we make sense of this tricky remark?

In today's Chapel message Dr John Frederick unpacks Mark 6:14-29 which details the execution of John the Baptist by King Herod. The text invites us to consider how Herod through his cowardice, faithlessness and political posturing shows that, paradoxically, the "powerful" political leader has less staying power than the beheaded prophet. Join us in considering how the Gospel invites us to be faithful fools who follow the crucified King Jesus rather than faithless cultural-chameleons who follow the coward King Herod.

Today Dr Paul Jones shares a sobering word (Mark 5:1-20) about how far Jesus is willing to go in order to interfere in our lives, and rid of us inner demons.

Dr Victoria Lorrimar preaches on Mark 4:10-12 and the way Jesus' parables function like secrets, hiding and revealing the kingdom of God.

In this week's Chapel series on the Gospel of Mark, Rev Nigel Rogers explores the authority and power of Jesus and the impact this has on our lives.

In the first sermon in this series on the Gospel of Mark, Dr Paul Jones highlights Mark's particular strategy for unveiling Jesus' identity as the physical embodiment of Yahweh, the God Israel (Mark 1:1-3). Needless to say, the implications of Mark's claim are enormous!

Trinity College Queensland Principal Dr Paul Jones speaks at Newlife Brisbane about Scriptural Discernment.

Dr Victoria Lorrimar was recently invited to preach at Toowong Uniting Church. Looking at lessons for the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15:1-22), Victoria asks, "Can we still be surprised by the magnitude of God's salvation?"

This week Rev Nigel Rogers looks at the confronting text of the Levite and the Concubine in Judges 19. This tough text takes us into the life of Israel as it spirals out of control.

Today's "Tough Text" is Jeremiah 15 : 10-21 with a sermon by Rev Dr Neil Pembroke. Neil addresses Jeremiah's dangerous complaint and lament to God, calling him deceitful. Wow! Should we really be talking to God like that?

Dr John Frederick unpacks 2 Peter 3 and argues that Peter’s language about fire is not a reference to the literal destruction of the earth by God but about the exposure of our works on the last day for judgment. Join us as we discover how God’s holy love and justice is a consuming fire that reveals the hidden depths of our hearts and invites us to pursue another kind of fire: the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit as it conforms us into the image of Jesus Christ, in both our confession of faith and transformation of character.

In this episode of the podcast John Frederick deals with 2 Corinthians: 5-6, and shows how the apostle Paul envisions the church to be a community that embodies the suffering love of God. Basing his argument on the Old Testament text of Isaiah 49, this New Testament text shows that affliction is not a waste, it is as way—the transformative way of the cross for the sake of others, and suffering is not futile; it is formative. Join us and learn how the afflicted church is the authentic church. Learn what it means to be disciples and leaders who embody the love of Christ and thereby participate in the very triune life of God.

Sometimes the way we have traditionally understood and interpreted a text from the Bible is what makes it a “tough text”. This week we look at 2 Samuel 13:1-22, and how we might resist reading Tamar’s story as incidental to those of her male relatives, instead recognising and amplifying her voice of protest.

Today's tough text is Genesis 16, the use of Sarai's slave Hagar to provide a surrogate heir. In the era of #metoo and "The Handmaid's Tale", Hagar's story makes for challenging reading, and leaves us with unresolved tensions. Hagar's experience of "the God who sees", however, reminds us that God is on the side of the vulnerable and the powerless, those who are otherwise invisible.

In this sermon on 2 Samuel 24, Dr Paul Jones explores an unusual narrative in which God prompts King David to do something that he then punishes him for. Ultimately, this perplexing final chapter in the Book of Samuel points us to Jesus, whose sacrifice is the last word on divine mercy.

The "Preaching Tough Texts" series continues this week with a sermon on Romans 7: 14-25 by Rev Dr Neil Pembroke. Neil gives an answer to psychoanalyst Carl Jung's question: is spiritual perfectionism the driver of the inner conflict that Paul describes?

How do you wrestle with doubt and confront uncertainty in a way that's healthy for your faith? Join Dr John Frederick for a conversation on how you can go about asking those difficult questions and how integrating uncertainty into a life of faith, when done in a healthy way, helps your understanding of God.

Our tough text series continues this week as Rev Nigel Rogers delves into the fantastically apocalyptic domain of Revelation. This exploration into Revelation 17 reminds us of the glory, majesty, power and authority of God, and challenges the way we place worth in things that promise everything and deliver nothing.

In this second sermon in the series "Preaching Tough Texts", Simon Gomersall wrestles with the New Testament story of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 4:32-5:11), reframing the account to explore the nature of God's "severe mercy".

In the first sermon of our new series, "Preaching Tough Texts", Paul Jones hints at what listeners can expect in the coming weeks and draws a life-giving message from one of the most perplexing passages in the Old Testament (Exodus 4:24-26).