The similar phrase 'Worldly Christianity' is one used by Bonhoeffer. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here. Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here.

Christmas Week 2024


We had a good week Christmas week, with various family members arriving and departing atdiffernt times. I have reported on the Christmas Day service. Christmas dinner was an excellent affair, Eleri providing amazing variety with turkey and lamb as the meats. We watched the king's speech, which was okay and I have been keeping up with the Christmas University Challenges. I also watched the documentary on Maria Callas. Very interesting. We completed a thousand piece jigsaw and had lots of time for games, mainly scategories and heads up. Plenty of late nights and mornings but we made sure to get out and walk some of the time. Lots of presents given and received. Eleri nad I had stockings and a hamper full of good things including a framed picture of the grandchildren and an AirBnB voucher. Today we went into town searching for coloured penguins. We have kept well mostly though Eleri has a cold today.  In the midst of all this I was able to prepare two sermons and then preached yesterday (report to follow). Tomorrow we are off to Cardiff for more family fun.

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