A Steadfast Heart: Emotionally Healthy Friendships, Part Four
Set Apart Podcast
Leslie Ludy
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
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 episode, Leslie unpacks the qualities of a truly faithful friend who will "love at all times" as it says in Proverbs 17:17.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Leslie Lutie, host of the Setapart podcast, Biblical Encouragement for Women. |
| 0:04.7 | We are in our Steadfast Heart series, and we've been exploring biblical principles for true emotional health. |
| 0:10.7 | And in the last few episodes, we have been looking at what makes a truly emotionally healthy, Christ-centered friend. |
| 0:17.0 | The friends that we choose to surround ourselves with and the people we allow to influence us will have a direct impact on our emotional health. |
| 0:23.7 | So if you haven't caught the last three episodes or so as we've been talking about an emotionally healthy friend, I just encourage you to go back and listen to those as you're able to. |
| 0:32.0 | We'll link them in the podcast description. |
| 0:33.9 | And in this episode, we're going to be specifically talking about another important quality of a truly emotionally healthy friend, which is faithfulness versus fickleness. |
| 0:43.4 | So before we jump in, I wanted to remind you that this is the last day to register for one of our eldersly discipleship training programs and still receive the 2025 prices. |
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| 1:04.3 | with your registration for the 2026 Set Apart Conference. |
| 1:07.4 | Our theme this year is fervent, |
| 1:09.1 | cultivating passionate devotion to Jesus. And the t-shirts communicate that theme. So if you'd like to come to the conference this year, it's a great time to register. This is the last day to get a free t-shirt with your registration. You can just go to Setapart.org or Ellersley.com, and all of the links will be there on the homepage, or you can click the links in this podcast description. |
| 1:31.8 | So let's dive into what makes a truly emotionally healthy friend. |
| 1:41.1 | Proverbs 1226 says the righteous should choose his friends carefully for the way of the wicked leads them astray. |
| 1:45.2 | And as we've talked about before, the verse that says bad company corrupts good character. And so the Bible really has a lot to say about being corrupted by the wrong |
| 1:51.5 | kinds of friends and that we should choose our friends carefully. And we've talked in previous |
| 1:56.5 | episodes, this doesn't mean we can't be friends with unsaved people or people who aren't |
| 2:00.7 | really walking closely with God. But we need to be friends with unsaved people or people who aren't really walking |
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