J. Douglas MacMillan has been held at that institution in his honour. According to Hywel Jones, MacMillan's preaching was marked by "powerful originality and strong orthodoxy". He is best known for his book "The Lord Our Shepherd" (). This is an exposition of Psalm 23, originally given to the Evangelical Movement of Wales in 1979. MacMillan drew on his 12 years of experience as a shepherd to argue that the shepherd theme pervades the entire psalm. MacMillan wrote a number of other books including "Wrestling with God" () consisting of addresses on the life of Jacob given to the Evangelical Movement of Wales
Psalm 47 a reduced version with guitar accompaniment. Many hymns are modelled after Psalm 47. They include the English "The Universal Sovereignty of Christ" with the incipit "Rejoice, ye people, homage give", published in 1902, and the German "Völker aller Land", written by Georg Thurmair in 1964 and revised 1971, when it was selected to appear in the German Catholic hymnal "Gotteslob" of 1975. Even more hymns pick up topics from Psalm 47, including "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty", which paraphrases verses 6–9. Psalm 47 Psalm 47 is the 47th psalm of the Book of Psalms, generally known in English by