Kat Armstrong didn’t set out to become an author. Rather, she wrote her first book in order to steward a message about the fullness of the Greatest Commandment: how we, as women, might love the Lord with all of our mind and strength as well as our heart and soul.
IF YOU HAVE EVER STRUGGLED WITH FIGURING OUT HOW TO STEWARD A DREAM, THIS WAS THE EPISODE FOR YOU.
I loved the opportunity to chat with Kat once again—a return visit to the show since her first appearance way back in 2016. I’ve been keeping up with her from afar on social media and always feel a connection to her desire to empower women and point them to Jesus.
In this episode, we stray a bit from the questions I ask all my first-time guests. Instead, you’ll hear the tearful story of Kat being confronted by another student in a seminary classroom years ago—an incident that ultimately played a role in the message Kat shares throughout her book.
You’ll also hear about the two conversations that challenged Kat about why she was withholding her important message to women and what she did as a result.
Kat doesn’t hold back from sharing about the rejection of her first book proposal, her grief at the loss of her father, and how she has rejected the trap of being focused on numbers of followers, sales, and stats and instead considered how her work might help people.
You’ll also learn from Kat what it looks like to keep pursuing your dream in the midst of opposition and why it’s so important to do that.
One of my favorite parts of the conversation is Kat’s reminder from Scripture that our adequacy comes from God not from our own competence, training, experience, or efficiency. That is a message I need to hear and remember just about every day of my life.
There’s so much more good stuff in this one, which is also the last episode of Seasons Six and of 2019. Give it a listen and be encouraged about why you can’t hide your dream or hold back from the ways God is calling you to love Him and love others.
MORE ABOUT KAT:
Kat Armstrong is a preacher, a preacher’s wife, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Polished and a newly published author of the book No More Holding Back: Embolding Women to Move Past Barriers, See Their Worth, and Serve God Everywhere. Kat has devoted the past decade of her life to reaching young professional women as they navigate career and explore faith.
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MENTIONED ON THE SHOW:
Kat’s book No More Holding Back
Carolyn Custis James (who did the research on the word “ezer”)
Kat’s Facebook post from July 25, 2018
CampWell & Jenn Jett
Jennie Allen
Sharon Miller – The Nice book
Emily P. Freeman – The Next Right Thing
Patty Crowley Brown – Kat’s writing coach
Church Source – where you can get the six-session bible study of No More Holding Back for your women’s ministry or small group
Books:
Scripture:
The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone.
I will make a helper suitable for him."
~ Genesis 2:18 (NIV)
Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider
anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.
~ 2 Corinthians 3:5 (NASB)
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