The In-Between Place: Where Jesus Changes Your Story

by Kat Armstrong

Overview

Jesus’ journey to the woman at the well in Samaria offers insights and hope for women today to make peace with the past, find hope in the present, and step into the future.

God wants us to move toward the goodness He has planned for us. But what do we do when challenges stop our forward momentum? What’s the next step when we fall into a pit of despair with the determination knocked right out of us?

On his way from Judea to Galilee, Jesus traveled through Samaria, a broken place everyone knew to avoid. In Samaria he stopped in Shechem, where evil had gained such a foothold of power that it eventually reigned. Yet the place once condemned as somewhere no one wanted to visit—let alone hang out in for a while—was the location of one Samaritan woman’s most hope-filled encounter with the Savior.

The In-Between Place offers deeply important insights to anyone who feels stuck and can’t see a way forward. It is for the person who feels that if she looks left, her face will be scraped by an immovable boulder, and if she looks right, she’ll see nothing but hard to handle. It’s for the person who feels lost and is not sure she is worth the effort to be found, for the person who feels overlooked and unfulfilled. Because sometimes Jesus saves our greatest spiritual breakthroughs for our in-between places.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780785223504
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	01/05/2021
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	259,582
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kat Armstrong has been emboldening women to be all-in for Jesus for twenty years as a speaker, Bible teacher, author, and podcast host. As cofounder of The Polished Network, a nonprofit connecting and gathering professional 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.

Editorial Reviews

10/26/2020

Reframing the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, Armstrong (No More Holding Back), cofounder of Polished Ministries, provides useful insight for Christian women who feel stuck in feelings of hopelessness. She explains that “in-between places,” such as going through grief, loss, burnout, divorce, or even a pandemic, can serve as a catalyst for living a more purposeful, God-driven life. Armstrong balances humorous reflections with life lessons learned through hardship (such as learning to accept initially unfulfilling work while working for a campus laundry service), cites biblical examples of failures that ended up being blessings (as how Miriam’s exile in Egypt allowed her the confidence to “boldly lead the nation of Israel in worship”), and shares scriptural stories of redemption featuring Deborah, Martha of Bethany, Mary Magdalene, and the woman at the well. Readers will appreciate Armstrong’s refreshing tone, whether she is unapologetically confessing her fondness for Hallmark movies, comparing a job interview to a Forrest Gump Ping-Pong match, or laughing in hindsight after a parasite-induced illness: “Even crappy places can be redeemed.” Lysa TerKeurst fans will want to take a look. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly