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.

10 Reasons You Should Fast and What It Actually Does

Fasting has become one of those Christian practices we admire from afar. We love the idea of it, but we rarely step into it. Yet when you look at Scripture, the people God used most seemed to treat fasting the way modern people treat their phones. It was always close. It shaped their decisions. It kept them awake to God in a way comfort...

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...