http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/06/trying-to-please.html
Check out Seth’s blog about pleasing and what or who we are trying to please. One of my collegues in Ohio said, “our business as the church is pleasing God.”. While I have mixed feelings about this statement, because I am a Lutheran and therefore think any works are bad and can not help me to please God, yet I have to do something because “faith without works is dead”…
So what do you think?
aSacredRebel 
I think there is a distinction to be made between “works” that “please” God, in terms of courting God’s favor [God’s love always precedes any action on our part] and “works” that “are pleasing” to God… a sentiment that is all over the Psalter–and the charge to the people at the cemetery committal from Hebrews.