135: How God Redeems Our In-Between Places with Kat Armstrong

Kat Armstrong has been emboldening women to be all-in for Jesus for twenty years as a speaker, Bible teacher, author, and podcast host. She is the author of No More Holding Back and The In-Between Place. As cofounder of The Polished Network, a nonprofit connecting and gathering working women to navigate career and explore faith, her mission is to create holy curiosity. Kat holds a master of christian education from Dallas Theological Seminary. She and her husband, Aaron, have been married for eighteen years, and live in Dallas, Texas, with their son, Caleb. They attend Dallas Bible Church, where Aaron serves as the lead pastor.  She comes back on the show today to talk about her new book, The In-Between Place: Where Jesus Changes Your Story.         What We Chat about in Today’s Episode: ~What led Kat to write her newest book, , and what readers can expect ~Developing a "holy curiosity" about God's Word and how the Holy Spirit teaches us more about the Word than we know already ~How God redeems our in-between spaces into hope-filled places ~The woman at the well's story in John 4 ~The fact that every step of your journey has purpose ~The eye-opening connections between Dinah's story in Genesis 34 and the woman at the well's story in John 4; what these connections reveal about the character of God ~Myths surrounding the woman at the well, and what, culturally and historically, is more likely to have been the truth about her and her actions ~The different outcomes in the stories of Dinah and the woman at the well, and why that is so important to grasp ~How different Jesus was from the majority of men in that patriarchal culture of the day ~Jesus' tender, compassionate care for His daughters ~The most life-changing moments with the Lord being those moments in our in-between places in life ~What the woman at the well's story shows us about the insufficiency of the self-care and self-help culture ~Jesus' sufficiency to meet all our needs ~The importance of believing we belong because Christ says we do; how to actually start believing who He says we are ~And more! For full shownotes, head to www.hargraveshomeandhearth.com/podcast