Set Apart Podcast

By Leslie Ludy

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What's Set Apart Podcast about?

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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06.05.2023

Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series with key Biblical truths for pre-marriage relationships. This episode focuses on the most important truth for any successful relationship - putting Christ first. Why does putting Jesus first matter so much when it comes ...

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06.05.2023 Relationships, Part 1 - A Biblical Mindset, Part 13 Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series with key Biblical truths for pre-marriage relationships. This episode focuses on the most important truth for any successful relationship - putting Christ first. Why does putting Jesus first matter so much when it comes ...
05.29.2023 Decision-Making, Part 2 - A Biblical Mindset, Part 12 Leslie continues her Biblical Mindset series with part-two on godly decision-making. In this episode, Leslie reminds us that God is not trying to hide His wisdom from us or make His voice obscure. Rather, He is ready and waiting to ...
05.22.2023 Decision-Making, Part 1 - A Biblical Mindset, Part 11 This week, Leslie continues her Biblical Mindset series with this practical episode on a Truth-based approach to decision-making. All throughout Scripture it is clear that God desires to guide us, direct our paths, give us wisdom, and show us the ...
05.11.2023 Keys to a Surrendered Heart - A Biblical Mindset, Part 10 This week Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series with fresh Biblical truths for surrendering our completely lives to Christ. Many of us hesitate to let Christ have access to our entire lives and futures. But when we know who Christ ...
05.02.2023 Emotions - A Biblical Mindset, Part 9 Leslie continues her Biblical Mindset series with this episode on developing a God-honoring approach to emotions. In our culture, our feelings are often placed on a high pedestal. It's easy to put more trust in our emotions than in the ...
04.24.2023 Friendship - A Biblical Mindset, Part 8 Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series with this episode on a God-honoring approaching friendships. Friendships can be a wonderful and edifying gift, but they can they can also create an unhealthy dependence and take the place God wants to have ...
04.17.2023 Personality - A Biblical Mindset, Part 7 This week Leslie continues her Biblical Mindset series as she unpacks a Biblical approach to personality and purpose. In a world so preoccupied with “finding our true destiny” and "discovering our uniqueness" it’s easy to become consumed with personal fulfillment ...
04.11.2023 Revival - A Biblical Mindset, Part 6 Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series with this week's episode on Revival. If you have been burdened to see revival come to your church, community or nation, this episode unpacks three Biblical keys to true revival. Leslie offers practical steps ...
04.03.2023 Stillness - A Biblical Mindset, Part 5 Leslie continues her Biblical Mindset series with a practical episode on cultivating Biblical stillness in our daily lives. Ps 46:10 says: Be still and KNOW that I am God. This kind of stillness is not just calming down our minds, ...
03.20.2023 Meditation - A Biblical Mindset, Part 4 This week Leslie continues her Biblical Mindset series with this timely message about what it means to continually meditate on God's Truth and agreeing with Him in our thought life. Dwelling on God's Truth instead of the enemy's lies can ...
03.13.2023 Biblical Worship - A Biblical Mindset, Part 3 This week Leslie continues her Biblical Mindset series with a candid and practical look at Biblical worship. In a time when there are many counterfeit versions of worship in the modern Church, it's vital to understand the Biblical principles that ...
03.06.2023 A Biblical Mindset - Beyond The Smoke And Lights, Part 2 Leslie continues the Biblical Mindset series this week with Part 2 of her message called Beyond the Smoke and Lights. In this episode, she offers practical and Biblical principles for protecting our hearts and minds from deception and staying anchored ...
02.27.2023 A Biblical Mindset - Beyond The Smoke And Lights, Part 1 Leslie kicks off a new series this week called A Biblical Mindset and brings an eye-opening message about seeing beyond the distractions and errors in modern Christianity and returning to Biblical thinking, reasoning, and decision-making. Today's episode on "looking beyond ...
02.20.2023 Responding To Sin In Others' Lives - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 17 This week Leslie wraps up her series on Christ-Centered Mentoring with Biblical encouragement for responding to sin and weakness in others' lives. In this practical episode, Leslie offers ways to discern when to confront sin and when to stay silent ...
02.12.2023 Cultivating A Truth-Based Mind - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 16 This week Leslie continues her Christ-centered Mentoring series with a message about reasoning from a Truth-based perspective. While it's easy to turn to popular books, blogs and songs for our guidance and encouragement, it's vital to remember that human thoughts ...
02.06.2023 Sharing Truth-Based Messages - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 15 This week Leslie continues her Christ-centered mentoring series with an important message about being 100% grounded in Truth in everything we share with others. In mentoring or ministry situations, it's all too easy to fall into the trap of sharing ...
01.24.2023 Finding A Godly Mentor - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 14 This week Leslie continues her Christ-Centered Mentoring series with a practical and encouraging episode on finding godly mentors. When we are in any kind of ministry, it’s important to glean from the wisdom of others who have gone before us ...
01.23.2023 Handling Personal Attack in a Biblical Way - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 13 Leslie continues her Christ-Centered Mentoring series with this poignant episode on handling criticism and personal attack in a Biblical and Christ-honoring way. One we begin to influence others towards truth, personal attack from others often goes with the territory. Unless ...
01.16.2023 Never Give Up - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 12 This week Leslie continues her series on Christ-Centered Mentoring with an encouraging message about never giving up even during times of discouragement. When you are wrestling for a soul or pouring truth into others and you don't see any fruit, ...
01.09.2023 Spiritual Warfare in Mentoring - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 11 This week Leslie continues her Christ-Centered Mentoring series, with this practical episode on spiritual warfare in ministry. Even if you don’t feel that your ministry is large or significant, if you are touching even one life with the light and ...
01.02.2023 Boundaries - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 10 This week Leslie continues her Christ-centered Mentoring series with an eye-opening episode about setting Biblical boundaries. In this episode, Leslie highlights the difference between healthy, truth-based, God-honoring boundaries and counterfeit, self-protective boundaries, and shares practical ways to set Christ-honoring boundaries ...
12.26.2022 Channel of Blessing, Part 2 - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 9 This week Leslie continues her Christ-centered mentoring series with Part Two of her message on becoming a channel of blessing. In this episode, she offers four practical ways to get out of "park" and into "drive" in sharing the hope ...
12.19.2022 Channel of Blessing, Part 1 - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 8 This week Leslie continues her Christ-centered Mentoring series with a candid episode on what to do when we feel depleted and inadequate, drawing inspiration from the example of her great-grandmother Ida. It's easy to forget that what God calls us ...
12.12.2022 Leading a Healthy Small Group - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 7 This week Leslie continues her Christ-Centered Mentoring series with practical insights for leading a healthy and God-honoring small group. Whether you are mentoring a group of women or are a participant in a group Bible study, these principles will help ...
12.06.2022 Common Mentoring Pitfalls - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 6 This week Leslie continues her Christ-Centered Mentoring series with a poignant message about avoiding common mentoring pitfalls. In this episode, Leslie tackles some of the incorrect mindsets and approaches we often take into mentoring relationships, and offers Biblical alternatives for ...
11.28.2022 Strength vs. Sympathy - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 5 This week Leslie continues her Christ-centered Mentoring series with this practical episode on pointing women to Christ's strength. While human sympathy often seems like the best response when someone shares their struggles, we can quickly become a tool in the ...
11.17.2022 Being Relevant - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 4 This week Leslie continues her Christ-centered Mentoring series with a practical look at what it means to communicate Truth in a relatable and relevant way. Contrary to popular belief, being "relevant" does not come from being trendy, experienced, or culturally ...
11.14.2022 Truth-based vs. Emotion-based Mentoring - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 3 Leslie continues her Christ-centered Mentoring series with this poignant episode on choosing truth over emotion in mentoring relationships and friendships. We often measure our success in reaching another woman's soul based on how much emotion is expressed and how much ...
11.04.2022 The Battle Over Souls - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 2 Leslie continues her Christ-Centered Mentoring series in this week's episode on the battle over souls. When we say “yes” to God’s call to lead others to Jesus, we are entering a battleground. In order to be effective in winning souls, ...
10.25.2022 Living With Eternal Purpose - Christ-Centered Mentoring, Part 1 This week Leslie begins a new series on Christ-centered Mentoring. Though “mentoring” has become a popular word in many Christian circles, it's easy to misunderstand what the souls around us truly need. In this episode, Leslie offers Biblical and practical ...
10.24.2022 The Power of Praying With Your Spouse - Personal Life Lessons, Part 14 Leslie continues her Personal Life Lesson series with this candid episode on the power of praying with your spouse, sharing about the impact that prayer has had on her own marriage. Whether you are married or know some who could ...
10.19.2022 Christ-Centered Time Management - Personal Life Lessons, Part Thirteen This week Leslie continues her Personal Life Lessons, sharing her own journey in personal life lessons. Ephesians 5:15-16 exhorts us, “See that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” To ...
10.12.2022 Thriving in Motherhood - Personal Life Lessons, Part 12 This week, Leslie returns to her Personal Life Lesson series, talking about spiritual keys to thriving in motherhood. As Leslie shares, motherhood success is not about being perfect. Rather, it’s becoming completely dependent upon the only One who is - ...
10.03.2022 Keys to a Christ-Centered Romance When it comes to relationships, it’s hard to imagine a more confusing time in history than the times in which we live. Even in the Church, a fog seems to have settled over topics like singleness, purity, and marriage. In ...
09.28.2022 True Rest - Personal Life Lessons, Part Eleven This week Leslie shares her personal journey to discovering true rest. Resting is an important way to honor God’s pattern for our work and lives. But, as Leslie shares, resting the right way - God’s way - is of crucial ...
09.21.2022 The Truth About People-Pleasing - Personal Life Lessons, Part Ten Leslie continues her Personal Life Lessons series this week with a candid episode about people-pleasing. It’s easy to blame “serving others” as the main culprit behind our burn-out and stress. A common mentality is that if we try to make ...
09.13.2022 Taking the Lowest Place - Personal Life Lessons, Part Eight Leslie continues her Personal Life Lessons series with a powerful message on taking the lowest place. This episode reminds us that in God’s Kingdom, we are not called to seek our own honor, but His. He does not call us ...
09.06.2022 Hurtful Christians - Personal Life Lessons, Part Seven Leslie continues her series on Personal Life Lessons with Part Two of her message on Hurtful Christians. In this episode, Leslie shares additional insights into gaining a Christ-centered perspective and response when we experience pain by fellow believers. Being hurt ...
08.30.2022 The Blessing of Difficulty - Personal Life Lessons, Part Six This week Leslie continues her series on Personal Life Lessons. In this episode, she reflects back on some of the most difficult seasons she has faced and unpacks the spiritual blessings that came out of those challenges. As this message ...
08.22.2022 Spiritual Sloppiness - Personal Life Lesson, Part Five This week, Leslie continues her series on Personal Life lessons, sharing about an important season of her life in which God convicted her of spiritual sloppiness. It’s easy to slide into spiritual apathy without evening realizing it. This candid episode ...
08.15.2022 An Uncomfortable Calling - Personal Life Lessons, Part Four This week Leslie continues her Personal Life Lessons Series, sharing spiritual keys to stepping out of our comfort zone and saying yes to God’s call on our lives, even when we feel weak and inadequate. If God is calling you ...
08.08.2022 Hurtful Christians - Personal Life Lessons Part Three This week, Leslie continues her series on Personal Life Lessons. In this candid and deeply personal episode, Leslie shares spiritual lessons from her own life about dealing with insensitive or hurtful Christians. Drawing from her personal experience, as well as ...
08.02.2022 Spiritual Discernment: Personal Life Lessons, Part Two This week Leslie continues her Personal Life Lessons series, sharing about her early ministry years and her journey to recognize and respond to error within the modern Church. This episode offers an eye-opening look at the state of Christianity today ...
07.25.2022 Constant Surrender: Personal Life Lessons Part One In her new series, Leslie recalls significant personal experiences throughout her life and the important spiritual lessons learned through them. In this episode, Leslie talks about some unexpected challenges she faced during her first year of marriage, and how God ...
07.20.2022 Part Three - Cultivating Incorruptible Beauty In Part Three of this series, Leslie explores two practicals ways we can cultivate Heavenly beauty in our daily lives - choosing truth over emotion and choosing freedom over shame. As women in this culture, we are often told that ...
07.13.2022 Part Two: Cultivating Incorruptible Beauty In part two of this series on Incorruptible Beauty, Leslie unpacks the principle of becoming a “friend of the Bridegroom” and offers practical ways that we as women can point others to Christ and not ourselves. There is tremendous freedom ...
07.06.2022 Cultivating Incorruptible Beauty: Part One This week, Leslie unpacks the spiritual keys to true feminine beauty and offers practical ways to allow Christ's Heavenly radiance to shine through our lives. This episode is the first of a three-part series on practical ways to cultivate the ...
06.29.2022 Christianity that Works In this episode, Leslie lays the foundation for exchanging defeated Christianity for victorious Christianity. On our own, triumphant Christianity is impossible to achieve, any more than a branch can produce fruit while laying detached on the ground. But when we ...
06.22.2022 Overcoming Excuses Oswald Chambers said, “there is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus.” This statement is Biblical and true, but the enemy doesn’t want us to believe it. He is a master of excuses, constantly seeking to ...
06.14.2022 Overcoming Lies Whenever we take a step forward with Christ, the enemy often is right there, trying to discourage us and whisper lies into our ears. In this episode, Leslie offers powerful biblical truth for countering the enemy’s lies and clearing the ...

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