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Set Apart Podcast
Hosted by Leslie Ludy · EN
Inspiring women of all ages to pursue Christ-centered femininity, bestselling author Leslie Ludy speaks straightforwardly, giving biblical and practical advice on how to live as a godly woman amidst a self-seeking and shallow culture. With episodes on purity, purpose, devotional living, true beauty, Bible study, mentoring, leadership, friendships, romantic relationships, marriage, and family, this soul-stirring podcast will encourage you to surrender your life to the one true King and find true fulfillment and purpose in Him!
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Emotional Health: A Steadfast Heart: Living for His Glory
3d ago00:20:28Tap to summarizeAs part of the Steadfast Heart series, Leslie unpacks a little-known secret to emotional health - living for God's glory instead of for ourselves. While it seems counter-intuitive, when we choose to get out of the way so that Jesus can be seen through our lives, we experience lasting joy and peace. There is tremendous emotional freedom that comes from choosing to step out of the way, so that Jesus can clearly be seen in and through us - just as John the Baptist did when he said "I must decrease, but He must increase." (John 3:30) When we fix our gaze on Jesus and let others follow our gaze upwards, we will experience a soul-level emotional peace that can never be found in focusing on ourselves. For more resources from Leslie, visit https://setapart.org/. To learn about our 2026 Set Apart Conference, visit https://setapart.org/2026-set-apart-conference/. To learn about our 2026 Ellerslie Discipleship Programs, visit https://ellerslie.com/be-discipled/. To support Set Apart Ministries, visit https://setapart.org/support/.
Transcribe →A Steadfast Heart: Set Free from Self-Pity
1w ago00:16:40Tap to summarizeLeslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with a conversation about self-pity and the impact that it can have on our emotional health. While the culture often treats self-pity as harmless or even healthy, in reality nothing can plummet us into despair or depression quicker. In this episode, Leslie offers Biblical keys to living free from the trap of self-pity while also allowing God to bring healing to our hurts and griefs.For more resources from Leslie, visit https://setapart.org/. To learn more about our 2026 Set Apart Conference, visit https://setapart.org/2026-set-apart-conference/. To learn about our 2026 Ellerslie Discipleship Programs, visit https://ellerslie.com/be-discipled/. To support Set Apart Ministries, visit https://setapart.org/support/.
Transcribe →A Steadfast Heart: How Turning Outward Impacts our Emotions
2w ago00:15:07Tap to summarizeLeslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with an inspiring episode about the joy of turning outward. While we often believe that focusing on ourselves is the best solution for emotional struggles, in God's kingdom the opposite is actually true. Through historical stories and practical encouragement, this episode reminds us of the soul-level satisfcation that comes from working in cooperation with God's Spirit to bless and strengthen others.For more resources from Leslie, visit https://setapart.org/. To learn more about the 2026 Set Apart Conference, visit https://setapart.org/2026-set-apart-conference/. To learn about our 2026 Ellerslie programs, visit https://ellerslie.com/be-discipled/. To support Set Apart Ministries, visit https://setapart.org/support/.
Transcribe →Emotional Health and True Comfort
3w ago00:21:57Tap to summarizeLeslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with a powerful look at what it means to seek the right comfort - God's comfort - when we are hurting or struggling. There are many forms of counterfeit comfort in our culture that may provide temporary distraction, but won't truly heal us at the soul-level. In this episode, Leslie offers Biblical keys to experiencing the lasting healing that comes from the God of all comfort, and offers practical ways to keep our emotions grounded in Him even in the hardest of times.For more resources from Leslie, visit https://setapart.org/. To learn about the 2026 Set Apart Conference, visit https://setapart.org/2026-set-apart-conference/. To learn about our 2026 Ellerslie Discipleship Programs, visit https://ellerslie.com/be-discipled/. To support Set Apart Ministries, visit https://setapart.org/support/.
Transcribe →A Steadfast Heart: Rest and Emotional Health
Apr 1000:21:50Tap to summarizeLeslie continues the Emotional Health series with an exploration of true Biblical rest. While the culture promotes a version of rest that is temporal and self-focused, God's pattern for rest is Christ-centered, eternally focused, and restorative at the soul-level. In this episode Leslie offers several practical, Biblical keys to experiencing true rest in any circumstance or season of life.For more resources from Leslie, visit https://setapart.org/. To learn about our 2026 Set Apart Conference, visit https://setapart.org/2026-set-apart-conference/. To learn about our Set Apart Magazine, visit https://setapart.org/set-apart-magazine/. To support Set Apart Ministries, visit https://setapart.org/support/.
Transcribe →A Steadfast Heart: How honoring Others Impacts Emotional Health
Mar 3100:21:12Tap to summarizeLeslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with a Biblical look at how to honor others and choose God's higher road of victorious love in our most difficult relationships. It is impossible to be an emotionally healthy person if we are constantly at odds with other people. In this episode, Leslie offers Biblical keys to develop healthy relationships and mindsets towards others and how to deal with difficult people in a Christ-honoring way.For more resources from Leslie, visit https://setapart.org/. To learn about our Set Apart Magazine, visit https://setapart.org/set-apart-magazine/. To learn about our 2026 Set Apart Conference, visit https://setapart.org/2026-set-apart-conference/. To support Set Apart Ministries, visit https://setapart.org/support/.
Transcribe →A Steadfast Heart: Overcoming a Critical Spirit
Mar 1900:21:48Tap to summarizeLeslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with a powerful look on overcoming a critical spirit towards others. When we are hosting a critical spirit, we cannot be emotionally healthy. A critical spirit is like a poison that slowly spreads, making us more and more emotionally toxic in our inner life. A critical spirit cannot co-exist with true joy, peace, gentleness, patience, and kindness. In this episode, Leslie explores biblical keys to avoiding a critical spirit and talks about how to handle weakness in others in a God-honoring way, and how this sets us up for both emotional and relational health.For more resources from Leslie, visit https://setapart.org/. To learn about our 2026 Set Apart Conference, visit https://setapart.org/2026-set-apart-conference/. To explore our 2026 Ellerslie Discipleship Programs, visit https://ellerslie.com/be-discipled/. To support Set Apart Ministries, visit https://setapart.org/support/.
Transcribe →A Steadfast Heart: Choosing Peace over Drama
Mar 1000:15:21Tap to summarizeLeslie continues the Steadfast Heart series by sharing three Biblical keys for choosing peace over drama. When we build our lives around specific principles from God's Word, we can avoid the emotional turmoil that comes from getting involved in unhealthy human drama and experience a peace-filled existence. In this episode, Leslie unpacks these principles and offers specific ways to apply them to our lives as modern women. As Leslie reminds us, choosing peace over drama is an important key to true emotional health.For more resources from Leslie, visit https://setapart.org/. To learn about our 2026 Set Apart Conference, visit https://setapart.org/2026-set-apart-conference/. To learn about our 2026 Ellerslie Discipleship Programs https://ellerslie.com/be-discipled/. To support Set Apart Ministries, visit https://setapart.org/support/.
Transcribe →A Steadfast Heart: Cultivating a Clean Heart
Mar 400:17:45Tap to summarizeLeslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with a powerful look at how being in a right relationship with God can impact our emotional health in a positive way. Allowing sinful habit patterns and unconfessed sin to remain in our lives will place a barrier between us and our God, which causes us to miss out on the joy, peace, confidence and security that comes from having a heart cleansed by the blood of Jesus. As Leslie shares, when we allow the God's Spirit to gently cleanse impurity from our lives, we will experience the buoyancy of being set free from the controlling power of sin. This episode offers practical ways to walk through a spiritual cleansing process in cooperation with the loving correction of God's Spirit.For more resources from Leslie, visit https://setapart.org/. To learn about our 2026 Set Apart Conference, visit https://setapart.org/2026-set-apart-conference/. To learn about our 2026 Ellerslie Discipleship Programs, visit https://ellerslie.com/be-discipled/. To support Set Apart Ministries, visit https://setapart.org/support/.
Transcribe →A Steadfast Heart: How Honesty Impacts Emotional Health
Feb 2500:20:07Tap to summarizeLeslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with an important look at honesty from a Biblical perspective. Over the past decade or so, there has been a renewed focus on honesty in modern Christianity. But in many cases, it’s not the same kind of God-honoring honesty that we see in Scripture - it's merely a venting of negative emotions. Being “raw and real” is touted as a spiritual virtue these days, but often it promotes a kind of “realness” that is does not promote true emotional health. In this episode, Leslie contrasts counterfeit honesty with Biblical honesty, and shows us how true honesty will help our emotions remain grounded in Truth.For more resources from Leslie, visit https://setapart.org/. To enter our 2026 Ellerslie Scholarship Giveaway, visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0MDS3NTWbpEVzwX-1I7vv0U9RBalczpeEbZVCbRvVl17pVg/viewform. To learn about our 2026 Set Apart Conference, visit https://setapart.org/2026-set-apart-conference/. To support Set Apart Ministries, visit https://setapart.org/support/.
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