This is the Bama Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we are joined by special guest Cat Armstrong, a Bible teacher and ministry leader who holds a master's degree from Dallas Theological Seminary.

She is the author of the storyline Bible Studies and is the co-founder of the polished network. Cat, welcome to the show.

Gentlemen, I'm glad to spend some time with y'all.

Yeah, and if you want to add anything to my introduction, any details about your family or your life or whatever that would just kind of give our listeners a little bit better picture of who you are and what you're about.

Well, I don't eat any spicy food, but I have a pretty spicy Mexy German personality.

I have been married to the love of my life for 20 years. Aaron Armstrong, he is a pastor, the lead pastor, a Dallas Bible church in Richardson, Texas, where we live.

So I'm a pastor's wife. I'm not sure I'm a great one, but I think that that role is evolving worldwide.

So there's more space for people who don't, you know, fit into a mold, but I love being married to Aaron. I love serving at our church, teaching the fourth and fifth grade Sunday school class and teach on the women's ministry team occasionally.

We have one son, his name is Caleb, and you can tell from my voice inflection that he is just the joy of our lives.

And we'll get to talk about him later in the show. I'm sure because he really inspired the storyline series and has helped me vision out these teachings and been really instrumental in helping me see biblical imagery in the scriptures.

So, you know, through the mouths of babes, they reveal so much to us. And then we lost my dad a couple years ago, tragically, death by suicide, which kind of is a large part of my story, but it also meant that there was some redemptive movement in my family, because my mom moved in with us.

So we are team Armstrong to the fourth power with my mom here. And I spend most of my days working for integrity leadership as the director of leadership for them.

And then my writing and speaking is kind of my Sabbath delight practice. So I think that covers it. That's me.

That was a fantastic color commentary bio if we've had one interview. I love that. I got I got to meet cat because of this new world that I'm a part of.

I signed this weird book contract thingy with nav press and felt like I walked into a room where I felt super lonely because I'm this first time author.

I found out there are other people in the room and cat was one of them. And there was a Facebook group and there was all these places where I got to I felt like I got welcome to buy a few names. I can even remember.

A cat being one of the first people I think in our little Facebook group of nav press authors that liked my welcome post and I felt like, oh, I have a friend.

And then somebody reached out and one of the things that we get to do at the publishing house at nav press is try to support each other's work and they reached out and said, hey, would you take a look at this Bible study series and see if you'd be willing to endorse it.

I was like, sure, absolutely. So I got to meet cat from a distance and I feel like the longer we've been in that same space together the more I feel like we're.

We're kind of swimming in some of the same pools as far as just evangelicalism and train of thought and the language that we use and some of our shared perspectives and so it's been.

It's been it's been great to get to know you cat. I cannot remember if you knew anything about me before or Bama, but a few is that is this your was this your first interaction with what did you were you aware of our work.

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