Living To Please God Blog

Intimacy in Marriage

Intimacy in Marriage

I wasn’t quite sure about whether to write this, because I was afraid everyone might run a mile! But this blog is here to share what God is teaching me, and since we just...

Fear, but Do Not Fear

I was struck the other day while reading, how two seemingly opposite characteristics of God are displayed in the same chapter, and I think it is a great illustration of how we should be...

The Greatness of Our God

I have been thinking a lot recently about the character of God, and how what we know about God can really affect our Christian life practically. Some words in a song I’ve been playing...

Lessons from a Rose

I have been reading slowly through ‘The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which I enjoyed as a teenager and was very happy to receive as a gift this Christmas!...

My Antidote to Discouragement & UK Fellowship Friday

A couple of weeks ago I realised that I was getting discouraged almost every day, which in turn made me feel even more down! The reason being that I kept failing to get done...

Blog Awards & UK Fellowship Friday

Holiday Coming Up! We are all going to the Netherlands to visit my grandma on Sunday, for a little over a week. So I will take a break from blogging. I might put the...

Have You Surrendered?

My husband has been preaching on Romans and finally on Sunday got to the ‘THEREFORE’ – what our response should be to the first 11 chapters. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies...

Why be Holy?

Why be Holy?

I loved reading this the other day in Your God is Too Safe by Mark Buchanan: ‘The goal of the disciplined life is love: to more and more live in and live out the...