Set Apart Podcast

Leslie dives into her new series called My Historical Mentors with this powerful and encouraging episode about the life of Lillian Trasher, an American woman who spent nearly 50 years caring for orphans and widows in Egypt. Leslie shares several key spiritual lessons she personally gleaned from Lillian Trasher's story; a story that highlights the power of prayer and the world-changing impact of sa...

This week, Leslie is launching her new podcast series, My Historical Mentors , where she unpacks spiritual lessons from the lives of women in history who have personally impacted her own walk with Christ. In the first episode of this series, Leslie highlights three Biblical principles that mark a true Christian hero and reminds us that our spiritual heroes were not extraordinary people who lived u...

Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series with a Scriptural look at what it means to surrender bitterness to God. Whenever we have been wounded or offended by others, we often feel it is our right to cling to those offenses, to nurse anger and bitterness in our hearts, and to see the person as an enemy rather than someone to whom we can show God's love and mercy. But when we allow a root of bit...

Leslie continues her Biblical Mindset series with this practical and Biblical look at exchanging chaos for order and peace. Overcoming chaos may feel like an impossible task in our modern chaotic world. But the good news is that it’s not a task we need to accomplish in our own strength or willpower. God Himself is interested in the details of our homes and personal lives. And He alo...

Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series with this practical and powerful episode on overcoming anxiety. Sharing two key principles from Scripture, Leslie reminds us that God’s desire is for us to be completely free from fear and filled with extraordinary courage. In this episode, Leslie challenges us to let God lead us to a place of victory, faith, and triumph so that we can walk in the reali...

This week, Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series with a Christ-centered approach to overcoming anxiety. In Philippians 4:6 Paul tells us," Do not be anxious about anything.” But is it really possible not to be anxious about anything ? We must always remember that whatever God calls us to He equips us for - including the calling to walk in total victory ove...

Leslie continues her Biblical Mindset series this week, diving into Part Two of a Christ-centered approach toward social media. In this episode, Leslie challenges us to examine whether social media is being used in our lives for God's glory or as a distraction or addiction that pulls us away from Him, and offers several practical, Christ-centered steps we can take to put social media in it's prope...

Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series this week with a fresh, Scriptural look at our conduct on social media. Social media is not wrong in itself, but it does present a number of spiritual pitfalls that we must be aware of as Christian women. In this episode, Leslie offers three Biblical principles for keeping social media in it's place and glorifying God in our digital conduct. If you've e...

This week Leslie continues the Biblical Mindset series with a Scriptural look at legalism. As you seek to become consecrated to Christ, Satan would like nothing better than to distract you from true set-apartness and pull you either into the bondage of legalism (self-constructed holiness) or licentiousness (self-ruled, fleshly living). In this episode, Leslie shares important Biblical principles t...

This week Leslie continues her Biblical Mindset toward parenting series, with a powerful look at the spiritual tools that we have at our disposal to see great victories gained in our children's lives. While we often want quick and easy solutions for the issues that we see in our children, God's solution is not primarily human, but spiritual. As Leslie shares in this episode, wrestling prayer for o...

Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series with a fresh look at our calling as parents to battle spiritually for our children's souls. As modern Christian parents, we often focus primarily on the training aspect of child-raising, while overlooking the deeper call that we have to wrestle in prayer for our children and resist the enemy's work in their lives. In this episode, Leslie reminds us that...

Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series with this practical episode on preparing for marriage. In this message, Leslie speaks into key questions many single women wonder about relationships, including what to look for in a future husband, how to test man's true character, and how to determine whether a relationship or friendship is truly from God. This episode offers encouragement and guidanc...

Leslie continues her Biblical mindset series with this practical episode on establishing a Christ-centered "code of honor" in relationships. As Leslie shares, a Biblical relational code of honor must be an outflow of our personal relationship with Christ, rather than being a list of rules to follow. In this episode, Leslie explores key "honor principles" such as bringing our emotions under God's c...

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 to relationships? Because a truly godly relationship can ONLY flow from a surrendered heart. Only then can God write a story that refle...

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 direct our steps, as a good Shepherd lovingly directs His sheep. As Leslie shares in this episode, He does not leave us to figure things out on our own, but i...

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 way we should go. He desires to be intimately involved in the details of our daily lives. In this message, Leslie challenges us to allow God to be t...

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 is and who we are IN CHRIST, surrendering fully to Him is the natural outflow. In this episode, Leslie reminds us that we will never be safer or more secure than...

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 unchanging Truth and power of Christ. If we do not develop the habit of bringing our emotions under Christ’s control, we will be in danger of being led by feelings...

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 in our lives. In this episode Leslie shares practical ways to determine whether our friendships are leading us closer to Christ or farther away from...

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 and self-discovery. Questions such as “how am I unique?” and “what kind of life will most satisfy me?” often become the focal point...

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 that each of us can take in our own lives to become catalysts for true life-change and spiritual awakening, both on an individual and corporate lev...

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, but it is also the action of learning to experientially know who He is and who He wants to be in our lives. In this message, Leslie contrasts Biblical stillness with the...

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 turn fearful, painful, and even miserable situations into glorious demonstrations of God’s faithfulness and triumph.  But in a world filled with darkness and...

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 define true worship. In this episode, Leslie offers four practical keys to true worship, not only when it comes to praising our King in church or private...

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 to Truth, even in a time when so much error and compromise has crept into the Church. This message will help you become a discerning Christian and a...