Objects of reproach to our neighbours
2009 June 12
The Psalms sung in Gaelic are a beautiful and haunting sound. I first heard had the privilege of hearing Gaelic Psalms when I preached at Kilmuir and Stenscholl Parish Church many years ago when my friend Alen McCulloch was minister there. This video brings us the words of Psalm 79, verses 3 & 4. Many Church of Scotland evangelicals can today identify entirely with these verses, living in a time, as we are, when our evangelical theology and biblical understanding are ridiculed and rejected in the Kirk.
‘They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. We are objects of reproach to our neighbours, of scorn and derision to those around us’ (Psalm 79.3,4)
Soli Deo Gloria
I’ll never forget the first time i heard Gaelic Psalms sung – also in Kilmuir – at Hector’s ordination. It almost brought me to tears. Recordings just can’t do it justice. Hearing them again on Sunday whilst at church on Skye was brilliant.