Created to Create | Rev. Katie Montgomery Mears Preaching | 4.12.26

This sermon explores the profound connection between creativity, the arts, and spiritual formation. Drawing on research from Dr. Daisy Fancourt about the scientific benefits of arts engagement, Pastor Katie Montgomery Mears examines how creativity is essential to our spiritual health and relationship with God. The sermon emphasizes that humans are created in the image of God (imago Dei), and since God is fundamentally a Creator, we too are designed to create. Through creativity and engagement with the arts, we develop spiritual disciplines like patience, attention, humility, and the ability to perceive truth and beauty. The message challenges the congregation to reclaim their God-given creativity—not for perfection or productivity, but as an act of remembering who they were created to be and drawing closer to their Creator.