Global Blessing Ahead: An Evening of Psalm Singing

On Friday the 6th November over 60 people from the Scottish RP Churches as well as friends from other churches gathered in the Airdrie RPC building for an evening of Psalm singing.

Rev. Kenneth Stewart (Stornoway RPCS) introduced each of the Psalms that were sung. The theme for the evening was “Global Blessing Ahead”. Rev Stewart explained that by that he meant that the Psalms are telling us that sometime in the future the Holy Spirit will so bless the world that nations, families, and people groups will come to acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ, not in any craven of slavish way, but in such a way that they will serve the Lord in spirit and in truth. He then proceeded to illustrate this from the Psalms that were chosen. He closed the evening encouraging us to get our view of future events from the Psalms.

Another aspect of the evening was The Digital Splitleaf Tune Competition. Digital Splitleaf is a public archive of metrical psalmody. It helps psalm-singing communities preserve and share the psalms and tunes, so they will be sung for generations to come. It was created by Airdrie’s precentor, Dr Timothy Duguid, who was also the precentor on the evening. This year Digital Splitleaf invited composers to write new tunes for the metrical psalms. In all, 55 entries arrived from six countries: the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada and Japan. The winning tune was composed by Byron G. Curtis for Psalm 100, and it is called New Jubilate. This tune was sung on the evening. You can see the full list of competition winners and results here.

After the Psalm sing, there was an opportunity to chat together over tea and coffee. It was a joyful evening of fellowshipping together with other believers. The live stream of the event is currently on our Facebook page, and we hope to have it up on Youtube in the near future.