Maressa Mortimer

My name is Maressa Mortimer, and I’m Dutch. I live in the beautiful Cotswolds, England, with my husband who is a pastor. We have four (adopted) children. My debut novel, Sapphire Beach, was published December 2019. I’m a homeschool mum, so my writing has to be done in the evening when peace and quiet descends on our house once more. I love exploring questions of faith using novels, as it helps me to see what faith looks like in daily life.

The Danger of Waiting Without God

“They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshipped it…”- Exodus 32:8It’s easy to judge the Israelites for the idolatry they displayed and forget that we too, are often guilty of the same sin. In Exodus 32, after forty days of Moses’ absence in the Mountain, the Israelites created...

Heavenly Adoption: The beginning of our spiritual childhood

“Having predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,” Ephesians 1:5 Do you...