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.

Every look

Over at my Benjamin Beddome blog I'm trying to post a hymn a day on weekdays at present. Today's selection is striking. See here.

LORD, every look of thine
Attracts my soul to thee;
And with an ecstasy divine,
I say, Is this for me!

2 Will he, before whose throne,
The angels stoop so low,
To dying worms, to sinful man,
Such condescension show?

3 Then his be all the praise,
To him be glory given;
By me, by all the saints on earth,
Till earth resembles heaven.

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