Birds of the Air: Christian Theology Book for Bible Study & Spiritual Growth - Perfect for Small Groups, Personal Devotion & Seminary Students

Michael Bull’s book, “Birds of the Air” is really unique. It can be a bit of a puzzle, especially if you are not familiar with his writings. It’s a simple enough book that you can pick up and read any part of it anytime. Like it says, it’s book of short proverbial “Tweets.” Yet, it is so provocative you may find yourself turning one of these quips in your mind as if working a Rubik's Cube puzzle. At first it appears to be a book of witticisms.. However, as you read, you realize they are not quite like any you have read before. Although the book is jam-packed with probably 1,500 pithy remarks, the sting in their tale is a slow venom. Nearly all of them I had to look at twice to catch what was going on, but once it dawns on you, it glows like a warm ember. Each one is imbued with a scriptural (typological) point of view that often takes aim at some cultural trend. The structure is subtle also. I wish he had explained more about how the book is organized. As with most of his books, he assumes you’ve read a bit already about bible typology and how the scriptures are organized in a way that follows what was done on each of the days of creation in the book of Genesis. With that in mind, there are seven chapters, and each follows the theme symbolized by that particular day of creation. For example, the first chapter is called “Creation” and covers things like God speaking or beginning a thing. A quote from this section is: “In God’s world, every journey begins with a single step —on some reptiles head.” The second chapter is called “Division,” and like the the second day of creation, it deals with how things are divided…as in “Revelation presupposes as veil.”And so the chapters are as follows:\Creation, Division,Ascension, Testing, Maturity, Conquest, Glorification. If you are unfamiliar with this structure, you can easily get the gist from some of Michael s “Bible Matrix” videos on YouTube. It may make a great bathroom book, or a resource for for speaking…or you may just make get a kick out of seeing the response on social media when you post one. These apothegms are meant to be like seeds scattered about. They may be “tweets,” but they are not trite.