For a fuller treatment of this theology and how it funds both a doctrine of Scripture and theological anthropology, see my "God's Mighty Speech Acts: The Doctrine of Scripture Today" (in A Pathway into the Holy Scripture 1994, 143-97), and "Stories of the Self: Human Being, Individual ...
Begin with hymns or praise. I’ve often been encouraged by missionary and writer Elisabeth Elliot’s confession inOn Asking God Why: “When I stumble out of bed in the morning, put on a robe, and go into my study, words do not spring spontaneously to my lips–other than words like, ...