With Apologies (part 2):

This may be more of a disclaimer than an apology, but the "With Disclaimers" sounded odd.  So, this is addressed to everyone who has taken the time to study the Promise Project and has disagreed with the way a promise has been interpreted or analyzed.

It hit me in doing this project how many of God's promises require interpretation about who it was spoken to, what it means, what conditions it is contingent on, etc.  Much of this interpretation is very subjective and is influenced by doctrines and beliefs.  You may see some or many of the promises differently than I have written them.  In providing the analysis in the project, there have been many promises that I really had to stew on and mull over in context to write what I have.  That doesn't mean that I am correct in each of them.

I am no more qualified than most people that will view this, and much less qualified than some.  My only true qualifications in this is are love for God and His promises, and time spent with Him studying them.

That said, I welcome your comments and suggestions about the promises as currently written in the project.  Please feel free to voice your opinion over where you disagree or feel that my presented view is not correct.  I would like to keep the project living and updated.  The very purpose of this blog is to help open up this dialogue between many people who would begin to study God's promises in a new depth, and to share what they are learning.  I would love to incorporate your feedback to make the project better than it is today.

With Apologies (part 1):

In the creation of this blog, there are really two apologies that I feel I must make.  I will break them up into two parts as they are really for very different reasons.

The first apology goes out to every visitor to this site who knows me personally who is thinking something along the lines of:  "Wow, this guy really offended me or hurt me." or "What is he doing writing about God's promises when I've seen him do this or heard him say that?"  To every one of you who are thinking something along these lines, let me sincerely say "I'm sorry."  

My apology here is personally that I'm sorry that my actions have offended or hurt you, whether this occurred 20+ years ago, two years ago, or just the other day.  The other part of this apology is that such a beautiful project as this with as amazing of content that I have set to explore is tainted with my own shortcomings (both past and present).  

Along with my two-part apology here, I would like to extend to you a two-part invitation.  I invite you to dialogue with me personally about anything you feel I have wronged you.  Secondly, I invite you to challenge me to live in faith, to walk in the light, to live for His glory.  As we head down this road together of making much of the promises of God, we will be challenged to change how we live, what we say, where we focus, and who we are.  I am forever in debt to God's grace, and this project will not change that.  Actually, to the contrary, this project has reminded me all the more how thankful I am for His grace.