AuthorJohn W. Keddie (1946-)

John W. Keddie (1946-) was ordained into the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland in 1987 and served in pastorates in Burghead (Morayshire) and Bracadale (Isle of Skye). Having adhered to the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing), he acted as lecturer in Church History and Church Principles in the denomination’s seminary in Inverness between 2008 and 2019. He lives near Inverness and continues as a retired minister of the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing).

Instrumental Music in the Worship of God

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Very little thought is given these days to the question of the propriety of using instrumental music in public worship services. It is not questioned. The fact that instrumental accompaniment was more or less unknown in Presbyterian Church in Scotland up to the end of the 19th Century comes as a surprise to people, as does the knowledge that the great Baptist preacher of the Victorian era, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, never used instrumental accompaniment in the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London.

John Davidson and The General Assembly of 1596

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In this article, we consider one of the most remarkable post-Reformation revivals in Scottish church history. It concerns what happened at the General Assembly of the Scottish Reformed Church, in 1596. It is little known by Christians in Scotland today; it was a long time ago. Yet one contemporary historian, David Calderwood (1575–1650), was to write that “This year [1596] is a remarkable year in the history of the Kirk of Scotland.”

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