A Steadfast Heart: Emotionally Healthy Friendships, Part Three
Set Apart Podcast
Leslie Ludy
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
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 power of the tongue.” Leslie unpacks the difference between honorable conversation and corrupt conversation, and helps us discern truly godly friends from those who are undermining our relationship with Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | I am Leslie Lutie, host of the Setapart podcast, Biblical Encouragement for Women. This is Christmas |
| 0:05.5 | week, so I just hope and pray you are having a wonderful Christ-focused holiday season and being |
| 0:10.5 | freshly reminded of the amazing gift from God in Jesus Christ. We're going to be diving into |
| 0:16.3 | part three of finding emotionally healthy friendships. And this is part of our steadfast heart series. |
| 0:22.1 | If you haven't caught the first couple of episodes, I just encourage you to go back and |
| 0:25.4 | listen to part one and part two as you have time. Today we're going to specifically talk about |
| 0:30.1 | one aspect of emotionally healthy friendships, and that's the principle of edification. |
| 0:35.3 | So we'll go more into that and what that looks like and what that |
| 0:37.6 | means. Before we jump in, I wanted to remind you that if you were thinking about joining us in |
| 0:41.9 | 2026 in Colorado for our set apart conference, this is a great time to register because before |
| 0:47.4 | January 1st, you'll receive a free conference t-shirt as part of your registration, and we still |
| 0:52.1 | have our early bird discount going. So this makes a great last-minute Christmas gift for special women in your life. There are also a few other digital Christmas specials that you can still take advantage of if you're looking for last-minute Christ-centered gifts. You can just go to Ellersley.com or setapart.org and click on the Christmas specials on the home pages, or you can just click the link |
| 1:11.1 | in this podcast description. Also, if you're thinking about joining us at Ellerslie for a five-week |
| 1:15.6 | or a week-long discipleship program in 26, our prices will be going up January 1st, but you can |
| 1:20.9 | lock in 2025 prices if you register before January 1st. So all of that information is on our |
| 1:26.5 | website, and I'll link them in the podcast |
| 1:28.5 | descriptions as well. So I want to talk about the principle of edification versus corruption. |
| 1:35.3 | An emotionally healthy, Christ-centered friend will seek to edify us rather than corrupt us. |
| 1:41.0 | And that might sound overly simplistic or kind of obvious. But we talked earlier in |
| 1:45.3 | this series about that verse in 1 Corinthians 1533, bad company corrupts good character. And I have |
| 1:51.5 | been really amazed in just living among Christians and seeing this creep into the church where someone |
| 1:57.2 | comes into your life under the banner of being an honorable, godly, spiritual friend, |
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