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 wrestle with God

Recently during our Heas Up Bible study, we were taken through the naming of Israel and reminded of how that name came about. Before becoming Israel, Jacob was Jacob: a man whose very name carried connotations of striving, grasping, and deception. Yet despite all of that, he became the recipient of God's blessings, passed down from Abraham. When I read the story of Jacob...

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...