Kat Armstrong
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Bible Teacher & Author: Encouraging curious Christians to explore Bible stories. You can find my books and study guides with the link below ⬇️
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I’ve got pneumonia and would love prayers for a quick recovery.
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Which is it?
Are women the weaker vessel or strong enough to feminize the Church?
Are women too deceptive to teach grown men or qualified enough to teach children?
Are women in need a protectors or are women suppose to protect our brothers in Christ from stumbling?
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The Church does not like their women angry.
I could write a book on this.
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Until I lost my dad to death by suicide, I didn’t realize that people joke, often, about harming themselves as a reaction to all sorts things that are irritating. I bet I used to do it too. But please don’t. Thank you!
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Sarah was pregnant with Isaac at 90 years old. And there was no air conditioning. Let us have a moment of silence for Sarah.
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Can’t stop thinking about Afghan women and Haitian children. Lord have mercy.
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Just got a text from a young woman sharing that she's getting baptized tomorrow. She reached out because I shared the gospel with her 3 years ago and she prayed to receive Christ at a Polished event in Ft. Worth. I'm a wreck. All is grace.
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Apologies to every church mother I poked about having knitting, painting, and scrapbooking as a part of Women’s ministry events. Had no idea these grounding activities could aid healing from life’s hardships and trauma. Our church mothers knew we’d need crafts someday. Knit on.
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Pentecost > Patriarchy.
Ladies, the Spirit sets tongues on fire. So, go and tell the good news of Jesus.
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A 🧵on the Samaritan Woman:
All my life I’ve been taught the Samaritan woman was a harlot. The picture painted for me was of a scantily dressed, salty-mouthed temptress who lured men with her wiles and then bounced as soon as she tired of their company.
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I’m an SBC outsider, but it pains me to see that some within the denomination were more comfortable with 45 than Beth Moore and trust James Lindsay over Russell Moore. Things are weird, y’all.
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Last at the cross.
First at the tomb.
And taking up sacred space
in the Upper Room.
Happy International Women’s Day!
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A pastor’s wife is a human being.
Not a political pawn for the ministry someone needs endorsed.
Not the admin assistant to her husband or the ministry leaders.
And she’s not omnipresent.
She’s human.
❤️
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A couple of faithful Jesus-followers left our church recently, which is always hard. They emailed the kindest letter explaining why this was the best decision and then gifted us a bottle of wine. I’d like to nominate them for the how-to-leave-well master class.
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After studying Judges 19-21 last year, the bible chapters I would consider to be the most terrifying of the “texts of terror” (Phyllis Trible), Jesus’ triumphal entry means more 2 me. What does the gang rape, murder & dismemberment of a priest’s concubine have 2 do w Palm Sunday?
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“Just.keep.getting.back.up.” -
@BethMooreLPM
Ministry will crush your spirit if you are not careful. The gossip, betrayal, and abandonment in leadership is enough to bury you.
Don’t forget you have the resurrection power.
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To all the women who sounded the alarm during Mark’s Mars Hill ministry, I’m sorry you were ignored, dismissed, threatened, slandered as heretics, or worse, mansplained that his deplorable actions should be excused. I’m thinking of you today.
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The first time I'd ever seen the Bill Gothard umbrella image was in a seminary class with the chair of the Bible exposition department. I started laughing because I thought the image was a joke. But no. It was positioned as the answer to almost all the world's problems.
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If you’re a woman in ministry because of
@BethMooreLPM
’s example, raise your hand in the comments.
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Character matters.
And I say this a lot on socials…
But here’s my broken record again:
How a leader treats women tells me everything I need to know about their leadership.
EVERYTHING.
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I have no words to describe how liberating it is to be back in seminary but this time with students and professors who do not doubt, fret, or question a woman's role in ministry.
God is redeeming my story.
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@BethMooreLPM
Which is so fascinating because the POC and women I know don’t want a mile. They want to pick up a cross, bend low to wash feet, and obey the first and second greatest commandments. They want to fulfill the great commission.
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My love for The Bible Project is unrivaled. Just sayin’
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Philip Yancey deconstructed. And then he rebuilt. It is beautiful to me.
Thank God he shares his journey with us through his books 😭
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Good morning! Tamar is the only woman in the Hebrew Scriptures who is called righteous. Just wanted to share.
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This is 43. If you knew my story, my family tree with generations of broken branches, you’d appreciate God’s rescue in my life. Today, I’m celebrating that two church ladies, Ann and Kathy, introduced me to Jesus before someone introduced me to drugs and alcohol.
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Is it just me or are the powers that be trying to prevent us from seeing
@BethMooreLPM
’s tweets?
Elon, she’s the only reason 1 million of us stay on the app.
More Moore for the Twitter verse.
Why is Beth not filling my feed?
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A lot of kids are bewildered by their parents rapping skills tonight.
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In 2017, a Christian publisher, interested in my book proposal, told me they wanted to publish my content but it was, “too uncredentialed for men and too smart for women.”
I needed to make a choice. 👀
To appeal to men, they suggested I get a PhD. Ask your female friends with a
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@KyleJamesHoward
Men who tell me men are designed to protect and provide for women and then purposely make a woman the butt of their jokes, the focus of their public chastisement, are liars. Go home? How about LEAD.
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Are women saved through childbearing or through Jesus?
Asking with sarcasm and because I like to read all the way to the end of chapters when I’m interpreting scripture. 👀
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I will not go home tomorrow. Instead, I’ll be teaching at Dallas Bible Church in the Crossroads class about Dinah’s rape. Your prayers are appreciated. ❤️
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Wept through the whole thing. I couldn’t put it down. I need a support group to process the amazingness that is Philip Yancey.
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I'm taking a leave of absence from
@nseminary
because I have no confidence in the board of directors and I won't stand for the abuse of female faculty and staff.
My professors and classmates, the faculty and staff have been nothing but wonderful.
I'm so grieved.
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Who knew “go home” would be a prophetic word for men and women in 2020 and not just a pathetic squeak to the ladies?
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If you’re a pastor and you’re not dressed as Ted Lasso for Halloween, are you even saved?
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Dr.
@drmoore
, I thank God for you.
@trillianewbell
, I love learning from you.
Please keep going.
Your Sister,
Kat
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I miss the bottom half of shirts and the sides of dresses and backs of blouses. This is middle age. Follow me for more geriatric-millennial-frivolousness.
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Wept through the whole book,
@BethMooreLPM
.
Wept.
I got to the chapter about Amanda and Melissa and cried till my eyes got puffy.
(Gathering myself)
You are so courageous. So generous to offer us all so much. What a treasure you are to the Body of Christ!
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When I’m most distraught by the way women in ministry are treated (here), I cheer female leaders on with a tweet. It is one way I can work through my disillusionment in a positive way.
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I've not convinced a reading of the Samaritan woman's conversation with Jesus is complete if we assume his main goal was a rebuke. Maybe addressing her pain was more compassion than rebuke?
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I grew up hearing about the wrath of a woman scorned and I can see that.
But boy, oh boy, the wrath when a Theobro has his fee-fees hurt & thinks you’ve “sinned against him” is really something too.
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Praying Friends, I'm speaking 7 times in the next 7 days. I'm inviting folks to pray that the Holy Spirit would teach me and use me, and encourage and equip the body of Christ.
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“Much of the war against the devil is about whether you’ll quit.” -
@BethMooreLPM
#chasingvines
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Many of the students in the class sat stunned as I tried to pick my jaw up from the ground.
As soon as I could compose myself, I responded by muttering, this is crazy town.
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In case I’ve caught you before logging off,
@BethMooreLPM
. I’m with you. Having you as my first Sunday school teacher changed everything for me. Thank you for preaching and teaching the Word. When I hear your name I think “spiritual mother” thank you for mothering so many of us.
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@BethMooreLPM
Beth, when I stood in line for your Chasing Vines book signing in Dallas, I stood next to women in their 20’s and the women behind me in line in their 70’s— between the lot of us we’d done every single study. Made me cry thinking of God’s grace and your faithfulness. Keep going!
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I rarely use this four-letter word, but I HATE Covid.
Tonight I’m grieving the unspeakable, unimaginable losses that just keep coming through Covid.
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Or maybe it was a combination of barrenness and widowing. Whatever the case, she was not presented in the text as a cheater but depicted as a woman who’d suffered more than most.
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Describe the first time you listened to a woman in the pulpit on a Sunday morning. I’d love to hear your story.
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My experience is very limited, but in my orbit, a lot of women are embracing egalitarianism because of the way comps handle abuse. It's not that they reject comp doctrine––that a man should provide and protect; they just don't believe the comp's believe it themselves.
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Am I understanding correctly that it’s okay if Sarah does it and totally okay if Paula does it but Hosanna and Beth, hard no.
Sometimes I’m just a slow learner.
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John 12:14-15
Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written:
*Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion. Look, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt.*
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If I were a literary agent, I’d be reaching out to
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@MelissaMoore77
and
@AmandaMoJo
to contract, Jesus & Horticulture, a devotional with writing from all three women. Full color interior w Melissa’s pictures and a free jar of honey w pre-orders from Beth’s backyard.
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If you’ve followed me for any amount of time, you know I am intentional to talk about what women were doing in the Scriptures. Not what women can or can’t do now. What they have always been doing. Once you see them, you can’t unsee them. And they’re everywhere.
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The kings failed us. The judges failed us. The priests failed us. Jesus does not. He is our King of kings, righteous and merciful judge and our great high priest.
Wave the palm branches as Jesus passes by on the donkey.
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From where I stand, I see class after class of female seminary graduates unable to find paid ministry work commensurate with their education and experience. Seems it would benefit everyone if they had training on starting their own things. Most seem to anyway. Thoughts?
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You know what authors need more than launch teams? Prayer teams. If you pray, I’d love prayer support for physical health, mental well being and a strengthening for my relationships with the people I love and serve. I am acutely aware today of the spiritual battles I’m facing.
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@BethMooreLPM
How do they find the time? I’ve found ministry work to be consuming. Who has time to troll, hate follow, and attack? No faithful pastor has the time, I can tell you that.
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How you treat Christian women in leadership tells me everything I need to know about your character. Period. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
The pastor was abusive? Creating a toxic culture? Did the female leaders call this out? Oh, they did? Makes sense.
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When I challenged the theory behind the image, I asked the professor if the gentleman sitting next to me in class, a complete stranger, had the right/authority to send me to the student center to get him a Coke if he requested. His answer was yes. I was under his authority.
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Praise God for the independent investigations but can we start to believe women?
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Five marriages indicated her life had been especially difficult.
In light of her situation, what if Jesus’ statements about her marriages and living arrangement were not indictments? What if they accurately represented her life as a victim of a system that depersonalized her?
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I can’t remember your exact words,
@BethMooreLPM
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Women go where they're invited and stay where they're celebrated.
Women do not go where they are unwanted or stay where they are tolerated.
Remember this next time you hear someone say women are trying to "take over" something.
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@BethMooreLPM
Heart bursting ❤️ Caleb Armstrong is my teaching assistant when I teach the 4th and 5th graders at my church. The most precious part is brainstorming with him what makes sense and doesn’t. Kids tell the truth. 🤣
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My direct messages are full of very young women feeling hopeless and as if they can trust no celebrity man claiming to be a Christ-follower. They know that's not true. But the struggle is real. Best I can offer: Mute the abusers and go read about Jesus. He's different.
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If you have been left for dead, Jesus understands. He too has been to hell and back. There is no tragedy he has not carried. There is one man, unlike any other, who has never cruelly or cowardly demanded a woman’s dignity to save his own life. Jesus gives his away.
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Every hermeneutics prof is screaming in a toilet right now.
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Aspiring female preachers, Bible teachers, and writers: I’ve been using my gifts for 20 years. I’ve done countless speaking engagements and published several times with a large publishing house and received generous advances. Never has my calling fully supported my family.
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This will sound trite, so bear with me. I am praying for us today—all of us. Today I have received more messages than the last few months total from people at their wits end or really depressed or angry. We are all so tender right now. I’m praying for us. Lord, be our shepherd.
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When Jesus said, “You’ve been married five times and the man you live with now is not your husband,” do you think she understood his meaning to be, The hard knocks you’ve weathered didn’t escape my view. I see all your pain?
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Now retired from Beeson Divinity, Dr. Day asked, “Based on our knowledge of the social and cultural values of first-century Palestine, why would it be unnatural to assume that this woman deserves our sympathy rather than our judgment?
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Twitter praying friends, I’m preaching tomorrow for the first time in a church pulpit on a Sunday morning. I’ll be teaching though John 20 and I’d love your prayers at 10am.
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I don’t need to do any research to tell you women in ministry will go and do whatever needs to be done for the sake of the gospel. We will find a way because we are compelled by Christ’s love to do so. Broken system or not. You can count on your sisters.
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They suggest she was desperate to survive in a time when women were able to do that only with a man’s help. To survive meant being tied to a man for provision and protection. To understand her predicament, we need to peek through a window into marriage in the ancient world.
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It has been my experience, in more than a few situations, where the same (really, the exact same) righteous indignation expressed by one of my brothers in Christ is received as strong conviction and my *verbatim* comments are: “divisive” or “shrill”...
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Blocking and unfriending on social media helps my mental health. We have so much agency to protect ourselves and to draw boundaries. Don’t be afraid to do so.
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I cover all of this in The In-Between Place:
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My two-year obsession with the woman at the well is now a book that you can pre-order.
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It is just now hitting me.
When I go back to school next year, I'm going to be attending an institution where I'll never have to devote any mental space justifying my desire to learn as a woman.
@nseminary
= "unbending in its support of women in ministry"
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But our assumption clashes with what we know to be true from history.
Dr. Cohick adds, “It’s more likely that her five marriages and current arrangement were a result of unfortunate events that took the lives of several of her husbands.”
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Both from Bethlehem, but she is nameless in the text and Jesus is the sweetest name we know. She a woman, he a man. She was just property, he owns it all. She was powerless, he all-powerful. She had no refuge, he is our refuge. She collapses at a doorway, Jesus is the door.
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In a society that granted women essentially no social or legal standing apart from a responsible father, man, husband, brother, or son, she can legitimately be considered a marginalized figure, subject to economic, social, and legal exploitation.”
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I wanted to cheer so loudly for my Latina sisters tonight. Instead, I found myself deeply troubled by the standard we’ve set for “entertainment.” Not feeling represented at all. Feeling gross.
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The stories women entrust to me about enduring abuse make me want to burn everything down. I’m flammable tonight.
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When we close the book of judges we are longing for Jesus:
•A good king
•A righteous and merciful Judge
•A great high priest who sacrifices his own life for ours
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Why was this woman married five times and living with someone not her husband? To survive. To live.
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It’s highly likely that instead of being promiscuous, she had just suffered a lot of really hard knocks, and to survive she needed the protection of a man in her life. Her previous husbands and her current live-in companion may have been covering her survival needs.
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Ladies, take every opportunity to advance other women. Solidarity, mentorship, introductions, endorsements, and recommendations are powerful. It requires a sacrificial commitment to generosity, but we need each other.
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Anyone who believes women should stay in abusive marriages should not lead parachurch organizations. It goes against their God-given nature to pursue human flourishing.
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