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Set Apart Podcast
by Leslie Ludy
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!
Episodes
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Overcoming: Esther Ahn Kim's Astounding Tenacity
Leslie continues the Overcoming series with a powerful look at the story of Esther Ahn Kim - a Korean woman who suffered many years in prison for her faith. This amazing story reminds us that when we unreservedly take up our cross and follow Christ no matter the cost, the world can be radically…
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Overcoming: Hudson Taylor's Relentless Faith
Leslie continues the Overcoming series with an inspiring look at Hudson's Taylor's missionary life. Hudson faced many, many impossible situations from the time he first decided to become a missionary - from being infected with a deadly plague to nearly losing his life at sea to risking everything...
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Overcoming: Annie Flint's Unflinching Joy
This week Leslie continues the Overcoming series with a powerful look at overcoming depression and discouragement through the example of the hymn-writer, Annie J. Flint. We often base our joy on circumstances, but God desires us to cultivate the kind of soul-level joy that can never be taken…
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Overcoming: Darlene Deibler's Amazing Faith
Leslie continues the Overcoming series with some incredible moments from Darlene Diebler's life. Leslie shares three specific stories from Darlene's experiences during World War II that have personally impacted her own life. This episode unpacks practical Biblical takeaways that can apply to our...
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Overcoming: Elizabeth Fry's Availability to God
Leslie continues the Overcoming series with an exploration of Elizabeth Fry - a wife and mother of eleven - who lived in the early 1800's and was responsible for prison reform throughout Europe. Elizabeth was a wife and mother of eleven children who made herself available to God to stand on…
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Overcoming: Svea Flood's Amazing Perseverance
Leslie continues the Overcoming series with the amazing true story of Svea Flood - a missionary to Africa, along with her husband, starting in 1921. Despite incredible hinderances and hostility, Svea's childlike faith and relentless perseverance eventually paved the way for the Gospel to reach...
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Overcoming: Corrie Ten Boom's Childlike Dependence
Leslie continues the Overcoming series with a beautiful testimony of Corrie ten Boom's childlike dependence upon God. As modern Christians we are often led by our own human understanding and logic rather than by God's Spirit. We often forget the fact that God cares about the details of our lives...
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Overcoming: Catherine Booth's Spiritual Passion
Leslie continues her Overcoming series with by unpacking Catherine Booth's spiritual passion. Catherine Booth overcame constant physical pain and weakness, as well as many difficult circumstances, to become one of the most powerful voices for the Gospel in her generation. Catherine's life shows…
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Overcoming: George Müller's "Yes, Lord" Mindset
Leslie continues the Overcoming Series with an inspiring look at George Müller's example of becoming fully available to God. In modern Christianity, it's easy to slide into mediocrity, approaching our lives with self-focus instead of Christ-focus. George Müller lived radically for Jesus - not...
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Overcoming: Mary Slessor's Incredible Courage
Leslie continues the Overcoming Series with a powerful peek into Mary's Slessor's incredible courage. For most of us, it is extremely counterintuitive to go toward danger instead of away from it. But throughout history, God’s kingdom has advanced when His people were proactive instead of reactive...
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Overcoming: Not Growing Weary
Leslie continues the Overcoming series with a powerful reminder that this world is not our home. When we study the lives of historical Christians, one of the most important lessons we can learn is what it means to endure, to stay the course, and to not grow weary in well doing. In this episode,...
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Overcoming: Becoming an ordinary hero.
Leslie begins a new series about overcoming by walking us through the struggles and victories of Christians from history past, and showing us what we can learn from them today. In this episode she outlines what defines a true Christian hero and reminds us that there are no "special" Christians,...
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A Steadfast Heart: Emotional Health and Spiritual Warfare
Leslie continues The Steadfast Heart series with a look at spiritual warfare and how the enemy's hinderance can impact our emotions. In this episode, Leslie encourages us to look at the areas of your life where we feel defeated, discouraged, or hopeless and consider whether Satan may be attacking...
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A Steadfast Heart: Letting God Shape Your Desires
Leslie continues the Steadfast Heart series by unpacking the Biblical principle of letting God shape our heart's desires. We often believe we will find satisfaction in making our own decisions and simply asking God to bless them. But all throughout Scripture it is clear that God wants to guide…
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A Steadfast Heart: Proverbs 31 Pressure?
Leslie continues the Steadfast Heart series by diving into Proverbs 31. As modern women we can often feel unhealthy pressure when we encounter this portion of Scripture. But when we understand what Proverbs 31 is really about, it can completely change our mindset. In this episode, Leslie unpacks...
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Emotional Health: A Steadfast Heart: Living for His Glory
As 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…
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A Steadfast Heart: Set Free from Self-Pity
Leslie 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,...
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A Steadfast Heart: How Turning Outward Impacts our Emotions
Leslie 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...
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Emotional Health and True Comfort
Leslie 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...
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A Steadfast Heart: Rest and Emotional Health
Leslie 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...
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A Steadfast Heart: How honoring Others Impacts Emotional Health
Leslie 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...
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A Steadfast Heart: Overcoming a Critical Spirit
Leslie 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...
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A Steadfast Heart: Choosing Peace over Drama
Leslie 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...
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A Steadfast Heart: Cultivating a Clean Heart
Leslie 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…
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A Steadfast Heart: How Honesty Impacts Emotional Health
Leslie 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…
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A Steadfast Heart: How Faith Builds Emotional Health
Leslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with a powerful message about faith and how it impacts our emotions. In the modern Church, doubt is widely accepted - and even embraced, which can lead to a sense of despair, discouragement and even hopelessness. It can feel like an uphill battle to…
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A Steadfast Heart: How to Handle Emotions
Leslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with an important look at what role emotions should play in our lives. Many of us are led by emotion in our every daily actions and decisions, in our thought life, in relationships, and even in our life direction. As Leslie shares in this episode,...
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A Steadfast Heart: Think on These, Things Part Two
Leslie continues her Steadfast Heart series with this powerful reminder of the importance of keeping our thoughts centered upon Truth. In this episode, Leslie unpacks practical ways to help our minds dwell on things that are lovely, true, excellent and praiseworthy. She shares four key ways that...
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A Steadfast Heart: Think on These Things, Part One
Leslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with a Biblical look at how our thoughts impact our emotional health. The enemy is continually baiting us to think about things that are not true. If we dwell on thoughts, mindsets and ideas that do not align with God’s Truth, then our emotions will...
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A Steadfast Heart: Emotionally Healthy Friendships, Part Four
Leslie continues her Steadfast Heart series with Part Four of what makes an emotionally healthy friend. Fair-weather friends are very common - those who will support us as things are easy and going well, but pull away when we are struggling or when a more exciting friend comes along. In this...
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A Steadfast Heart: Emotionally Healthy Friendships, Part Three
Leslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with Part Three of Emotionally Healthy Friendships. In this episode, Leslie focuses on the importance of finding friends who will build us up in our faith and speak words that edify rather than corrupt. Proverbs tells us that “life and death are in the...
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A Steadfast Heart: Emotionally Healthy Friendships, Part Two
Leslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with Part Two of Emotionally Healthy Friendships. An emotionally healthy friend will desire to point us toward Jesus first and foremost, rather than make us emotionally dependent upon themselves. In this episode, Leslie unpacks the difference between…
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A Steadfast Heart: Emotionally Healthy Friendships, Part One
Leslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with this episode on Christ-centered, emotionally-healthy friendships. Why is it important to surround ourselves with emotionally healthy friends who are truly Christ-centered? Because those we allow to influence us can have a powerful impact on the...
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A Steadfast Heart: Becoming Truly Happy, Part Two
Leslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with Part Two of her message called Becoming Truly Happy. In our culture, we have been trained to do only what makes us happy and brings us personal fulfillment, rather than to serve and pour out our lives for the glory of God. In this episode, Leslie...
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A Steadfast Heart: Becoming Truly Happy, Part One
Leslie continues the Steadfast Heart series with a powerful look at true happiness. While the culture leads us to believe that happiness is conditional upon our circumstances, and comes from self-fulfillment, God's Word tells us differently. According to God's pattern, happiness is a decision of...
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A Steadfast Heart: Finding True Emotional Health
Leslie launches a new series this week called A Steadfast Heart . “Emotional health” has become a popular topic in modern culture. But what is true emotional health from a Biblical perspective? In this week’s episode, Leslie takes a Scriptural look at what it means to bring our emotions under the...
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Honorable Womanhood: The Blessing of Teammates
Leslie continues her Honorable Womanhood series with a message about the unexpected blessings that come from choosing to honor our God-given authorities, especially in the area of romance and relationships. In our modern age of independence, many of us overlook the fact that God has placed these...
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Honorable Womanhood: Warrior Poet Manhood
Leslie continues the Honorable Womanhood series with this episode about inspiring today's men toward honor. Whether you are married and frustrated by your husband’s lack of sensitivity, living with a dad or brothers who display crude and rude behavior, or a single woman unsure how to respond to…
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Honorable Womanhood: Guarding the Sacred
Leslie continues the Honorable Womanhood series with a Biblical look at what it means to guard the sacred things that God entrusts to us. Guarding our hearts and valuing what God deems sacred is a critical part of a godly pattern for healthy relationships. It is also a critical part of our...
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Honorable Womanhood: Keys to a God-Honoring Love Story
Leslie continues the Honorable Womanhood series by unpacking seven principles for building a God-honoring love story. As Leslie reminds us, an earthly relationship should never distract us from the most important relationship of all — our personal walk with Jesus Christ. When God is truly the One...
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Honorable Womanhood: Overcoming the Fear of Loneliness
Leslie continues the Honorable Womanhood series with a message about what it means to entrust the pen of our life story to into God's faithful hands. During the single years, it’s tempting to both idolize and idealize our marriage hopes and dreams, thinking that we’ll finally be happy once we…
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Honorable Womanhood: Is Marriage a Woman's Only Purpose?
Leslie continues the Honorable Womanhood with an exploration of God’s vision and purpose for marriage. We often approach marriage from a selfish vantage point, assuming that the main purpose of marriage is for our own happiness. While Christian marriage is a wonderful blessing and gift from God,...
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Honorable Womanhood: Four Ways to Build a Christ-Centered Marriage
In this episode, Leslie explores four key ways to build a truly Christ-centered marriage, not just a marriage with a Christian label. These truths are important even for single women, because many of these principles can be cultivated in your life long before you meet your spouse. There is a...
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Honorable Womanhood: What Makes Women Desperate?
Leslie continues the Honorable Womanhood series by unpacking the question what makes women desperate? While it's tempting to look to a relationship to try to find our worth, once we understand the incredible value that God places upon us, we will not be desperate for a relationship because our...
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Honorable Womanhood: What is Counterfeit Purity?
Leslie continues the Honorable Womanhood series by tackling the issue of counterfeit purity vs. Biblical purity. While many versions of “purity” are promoted within the Church, the reality is that a true commitment to purity can only flow out of a heart that longs to love, honor, and glorify…
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Honorable Womanhood: The Secret to Relational Success
Leslie launches a new series this week, Honorable Womanhood. In this episode, she shares the critical ingredient to a romance that only grows more beautiful with time - putting Jesus above all else. When we look to an earthly relationship to meet needs that only Jesus can meet, we put unrealistic...
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He is my Rock, part two: agreeing with God's reality
Leslie wraps up the He Is series with an exploration of what it means to have a "Canon mind" - implicitly trusting God’s definition of reality and being closed to any thought or idea that promotes a reality other than His. When we build our lives upon the conviction that God’s Word is the perfect...
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He is My Rock - making God's Truth our immoveable foundation
Leslie continues the He Is series with a powerful reminder that He is our Rock. All throughout Scripture we are reminded that He alone is meant to be our rock and fortress. And Jesus tells us that unless build our faith upon the solid unchanging rock of His Truth, our faith will come crashing…
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He is Love - becoming a catalyst of God's mercy to this world
Leslie wraps up her He Is series by unpacking two key truths about God's amazing love. This episode reminds us that God's love is not conditional upon our perfection, offering key insights for how we should respond when we realize we have wandered away from God. In addition, Leslie unpacks the...
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He Is Love - exploring the amazing depths of God's heart toward us
Leslie continues the He Is series by exploring the amazing reality that God is love. He exemplifies agape love - a love that actively, purposefully seeks another’s highest. It is a sacrificial love. It is a selfless love. As Leslie explains in this episode, this is the love God showed toward us,...
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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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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...
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