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🔥 LOGOS TCHOUKBALL CHAMPIONSHIP 2026 🔥

Tchoukball players, it’s time to hit the court!

We are SO eager to bring back the Logos Tchoukball Championship 2026—bigger, faster, and more exciting than ever! This is your chance to represent, compete, and make unforgettable plays with your team.

📅 Event: Logos Tchoukball Championship 2026
🗓️ Date: September 10–12, 2026
🏆 Format: Mixed Division | Team Competition
📍 Venue: School of Tomorrow® Philippines Gymnasium, Parañaque City

👉 Register your team here:
https://forms.gle/tFiKRySQA7XRjTZi6

Gear up, train hard, and let’s make Logos Championship 2026 one for the books. See you on the court! 💪🤾‍♀️

FRIDAY | 06-26-2026:
BIBLE READING: Matthew 15:1-20
KEY BIBLE VERSE: “You hypocrites! Isaiah was prophesying about you when he said, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away. Their worship is a farce, for they replace God’s commands with their own man-made teachings.’” (Matthew 15:7-9, NLT)

GOD EXPECTS SINCERITY IN BOTH OUR ACTIONS AND ATTITUDES.
The prophet Isaiah also criticized hypocrites (Isaiah 29:13), and Jesus applied Isaiah’s words to these religious leaders. When we claim to honor God while our hearts are far from him, our worship means nothing. It is not enough to act religious. Our actions and our attitudes must be sincere. If they are not, Isaiah’s words also describe us.

Lesson: SINCERITY & HONESTY
Prepared by: Rev. Delbert Hooge

WEDNESDAY | 06-24-2026:
BIBLE READING: Zechariah 7:5-14
KEY BIBLE VERSE: “Say to all your people and your priests, ‘During those seventy years of exile, when you fasted and mourned in the summer and at the festival in early autumn, was it really for me that you were fasting? And even now in your holy festivals, you don’t think about me but only of pleasing yourselves.’” (Zechariah 7:5-6, NLT)

EVEN THE RIGHT ACTIONS CAN BE WASTED WITHOUT SINCERE MOTIVES.

The Israelites had lost their sincere desire for a loving relationship with God. Zechariah told them that they had been fasting without a proper attitude of repentance or worship. They fasted and mourned during their exile with no thought of God or their sins that had caused the exile in the first place. When you go to church, pray, or have fellowship with other believers, are you doing these from habit or for what you get out of it? God says that an attitude of worship without a sincere desire to know and love him will lead to ruin.

Lesson: SINCERITY & HONESTY
Prepared by: Rev. Delbert Hooge

TUESDAY | 06-23-2026:
BIBLE READING: Psalm 12:1-8
KEY BIBLE VERSE: The LORD’S promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over. (Psalm 12:6, NLT)

THE WORDS OF THE BIBLE ARE SINCERITY BASED ON TRUTH.
Sincerity and truth are extremely valuable because they are so rare. Many people are deceivers, liars, flatterers; they think they will get what they want by deception. As a king, David certainly faced his share of such people, who hoped to win his favor and gain advancement through flattery. When we feel as though sincerity and truth have nearly gone out of existence, we have one hope—the Word of God. God’s words are as flawless as refined silver. So listen carefully when he speaks.

Lesson: SINCERITY & HONESTY
Prepared by: Rev. Delbert Hooge

SINCERITY & HONESTY

What are the benefits and limitations of sincerity?

MONDAY | 06-22-2026:
BIBLE READING: Judges 17:1-13
KEY BIBLE VERSE: “I know the LORD will bless me now,” Micah said, “because I have a Levite serving as my priest.” (Judges 17:13, NLT)

SINCERITY MUST BE BASED ON THE TRUTH.
Micah and his mother seemed to be good and moral people and may have sincerely desired to worship God, but they disobeyed God by following their own desires instead of doing what God wanted. The attitude that prevailed in Micah’s day was this: “Everyone did whatever he wanted to.”

This is remarkably similar to today’s prevailing attitudes. But God has given us standards. He has not left our conduct up to us and our opinions. We can avoid conforming to society’s low standards by taking God’s commands seriously and applying them to life. Independence and self-reliance are positive traits, but only within the framework of God’s standards. Sincere belief in a lie does not equal the truth.

Today, as in Micah’s day, everyone seems to put his or her own interests first. Time has not changed human nature. Most people still reject God’s right way of living. The people in Micah’s time replaced the true worship of God with a homemade version of worship. As a result, justice was soon replaced by revenge and chaos. Ignoring God’s direction led to confusion and destruction.

Anyone who has not submitted to God will end up doing whatever seems right to them at the time. This tendency is present in all of us. To know what is really right and to have the strength to do it, we need to draw closer to God and his Word.

Lesson: SINCERITY & HONESTY
Prepared by: Rev. Delbert Hooge

FRIDAY | 06-19-2026:
BIBLE READING: Matthew 18:21-35
KEY BIBLE VERSE: Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?” (Matthew 18:21, niv)

Real forgiveness does not keep track of offenses. The rabbis taught that people should forgive those who offend them—but only three times. Peter, trying to be especially generous, asked Jesus if seven (the “perfect” number) was enough times to forgive someone. But Jesus answered, “Seventy-seven times,” meaning that we shouldn’t even keep track of how many times we forgive someone. We should always forgive those who are truly repentant, no matter how many times they ask.

Real forgiveness follows God’s pattern. Because God has forgiven all our sins, we should not withhold forgiveness from others. Realizing how completely Christ has forgiven us should produce a free and generous attitude of forgiveness toward others. When we don’t forgive others, we are setting ourselves outside and above Christ’s law of love.

Lesson: ATONEMENT
Prepared by Rev. Delbert Hooge