Leslie continues her Most Asked Questions this week with a powerful look at ways to strengthen your marriage. While tools like marriage books and marriage conferences can be helpful, the primary way to cultivate a strong and healthy marriage is to bring Christ into the center of the relationship. In this episode, Leslie offers several practical ways to bring vibrant prayer, spiritual growth, and Christ-like character into your marriage, no matter what your specific life challenges may be. When Jesus Christ is invited to be the Guest of Honor in your marriage relationship, the result is strong and lasting unity with your spouse.

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Leslie continues her Most Asked Questions series with this practical look at preparing for marriage in a Christ-centered way. In this episode, Leslie shares key spiritual truths that help us prepare now for a strong, lasting, God-honoring future marriage. As Leslie reminds us, you don't need to wait until you meet your future spouse to begin preparing for a love story that will stand the test of time. And even if God has called you to a lifetime of singleness, applying these principle will never be wasted, because they strengthen your relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Leslie continues her Most Asked Questions series with a powerful look at what it means to fall in love with God's Word. In this episode, she unpacks three key principles for gaining a true passion for the Bible and offers practical ways to bring your personal Bible study times to life. This message reminds us that diving into God’s Word for the purpose of knowing Him is one of the best ways we can spend our time and energy, and that it will always reap eternal fruit in our lives.

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Leslie continues her Most Asked Questions series with Part One of a two-part message on gaining a genuine love for studying God's Word. As Christian women it's easy to see Bible study as a chore or obligation, without really understanding the significance or beauty of immersing in God's Word regularly. We often take an academic approach to Bible study, which causes it to feel tedious and dry. In this episode, Leslie unpacks three critical principles for shifting our mindset toward God'd Word, and helps us discover the joy and privilege of exploring Scripture from a relational - rather than a dutiful - motivation.

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Leslie continues her Most Asked Questions series with Part Two of her message on cultivating a drama-free lifestyle. As women, creating or getting involved in gossip and drama can be one of the primary tools the enemy uses to get our focus off Christ and remove the perfect peace that God intends us to have as daughters of the King. In this episode, Leslie offers three biblical keys to choosing a quietness and peace over unhealthy human drama, and embracing the true adventure and excitement of a God-centered life.

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Leslie continues her Most Asked Questions series with a compelling discussion on cultivating a no-drama lifestyle. While adventure and spiritual battle go hand in hand with walking the narrow way of the Cross, God doesn't intend us to live a life of constant crisis, chaos and drama. In this episode, Leslie offers three biblical and practical keys for responding to drama and distraction in a healthy way and building a life that is marked by peace, calm, and stability of soul.

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Leslie continues her Most Asked Questions series with Part Two of her message on honoring God with our time. Living in a noisy, busy world, it's easy to lose sight of God's bigger picture for our lives. In this episode, Leslie outlines four key ways we can build our lives around what is most important, offering a biblical mindset toward key ares of time management, including rest, entertainment, and serving others. As Leslie reminds us, when we consecrate our time to Christ, we find a far deeper satisfaction than anything the distractions of this world can offer.  We won’t need to chase after the world’s counterfeit excitement, because we will be living in a real-life adventure of world-changing Christianity.

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Leslie continues her Most Asked Questions series with the first of a two-part message on honoring God with our time. The Bible says that we are called to “redeem the time”, which means to seize each moment God has given us and use it for His glory, and not our own selfish agenda. As Leslie shares in this episode, effectively managing our time is a key way to avoid wasting our lives on temporal, meaningless things. Leslie unpacks two key principles for keeping our lives and time centered around God's priorities, no matter what season we are in.

For more resources from Leslie, visit www.setapart.org. To support Set Apart Ministries, visit https://setapart.org/support/. To learn about our 2025 Set Apart Conference, visit https://setapart.org/2025-set-apart-conference/. To listen to Purposeful Time Management, visit https://setapart.org/231christ-centered-time-management-personal-life-lessons-part-13/. To listen to Overcoming Burnout, visit https://setapart.org/76-overcoming-burnout/.

Leslie continues her Most Asked Questions series by offering key Biblical truths for seasons of loneliness. Loneliness is not God’s lifelong design for us, but seasons of loneliness are a necessary part of following the narrow way of the Cross. As Leslie reminds us in this episode, instead of seeing loneliness as a problem that needs to be avoided at all costs, we can choose to embrace it as an opportunity to grow closer to Christ than we ever thought possible. We do not serve a distant God who can’t relate to our struggles or meet our deepest needs, but the perfect fulfillment of every longing within our heart, even in seasons of loneliness.

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Leslie continues her Most Asked Questions series with Part Two of her message about cultivating faithfulness in our Christian walk. As Christians, we often lose sight of God's plans and purposes for us, simply because we are too preoccupied with the temporal pleasures and the distractions of this earthly life. In this episode, Leslie unpacks four practical and Biblical ways to begin fostering a heart of availability to God and a lifestyle of faithfulness, no matter where you are or what your circumstances.

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