Straight Up! at TLC Naples

05/01/2025

03/23/2025

We are currently planning this year’s Motion trip (2025) in Birmingham, Alabama. If you would like to help fund this year’s trip please mark your offering-donation attn.: Straight Up Youth or Youth group. Str8up! Has been attending this yearly event since 21012.
Thank you and God bless.

02/17/2025

01/01/2025

12/24/2024

“Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭2‬:‭8‬-‭11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone arou

12/20/2024

Just a reminder that Straight Up will not be meeting next Wednesday night the 25th. God bless and Merry Christmas! 🎄

11/12/2024

CULTURE: Friends and Influencers
From a devotional I read today.

Redefine culture. What does that look like with the people that surround us? Most of my teenage years were spent away from Christ. In my senior year, that all changed. Finally, I was able to fully understand what being a follower of Christ meant. The hardest change for me was not walking away from bad decisions, drugs, alcohol, or even cussing. It was the relationships I was in, the friends I had surrounded myself with.

I soon came to realize that the voices I was allowing in my life weren’t leading me to Christ. I had a huge choice to make. Who was I going to let be the loudest voice in my life? Who was going to influence me?

In The Message, Ephesians 4:17 says, “And so I insist—and God backs me up on this —that there be no going along with the CROWD, the empty-headed, mindless CROWD. They’ve refused for so long to deal with God that they’ve lost touch not only with God but with reality itself.”

We have a choice to make! There will be a crowd we allow to influence our lives. I learned early in my walk with God that who you surround yourself with has a huge impact on your relationship with Jesus.

Questions for you today:

Who are you surrounding yourself with? Name the people you spend the most time with. Often the reflection of who you are is who you surround yourself with. We need to be surrounding ourselves with people who are leading us to Christ, not away from him.

Who has the most influence in your life? Name the people you listen to the most. Are they influencing you in a good way? We need people who are encouraging us to make the right decisions. So many times a student gets in trouble because they let someone influence them to do wrong.

Surround yourself with a crowd that is leading you towards Jesus.

Galatians 6:14 NLT “...Because of that CROSS, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world’s interest in me also died.”

There you go. You have spent three days being challenged to take a look at the culture you surround yourselves with. Maybe you’ve realized you have to make some changes.

When you’re hungry, you could eat a bunch of junk food and it wold fill you up. While you may be satisfied, you’re full of something not good for you. What your body really needs is something healthy that will help you grow. Culture is the same. Are you filling up on things that are healthy and will help you grow in your relationship with Jesus? Or are you filling up on junk?

10/25/2024

“So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!””
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭20‬ ‭NLT‬‬

So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”

10/24/2024

“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭2‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing