Jared Verse was not always this way. Not in high school in Pennsylvania. Not at his first college stop at Albany. After transferring to Florida State, however, something clicked. Verse became ...

The Bible massively contradicts this notion ... God “saves the upright in heart” (Psalm 7:10) and “he who ... speaks” (Isaiah 33:15) and “walks” uprightly (Isaiah 57:2).

God’s steadfast love (his “covenant mercy” or beneficial action on his people’s behalf) never ceases, even in the face of Judah’s unfaithfulness and the resulting “day of the LORD” (cf. Joel 2:1–2; ...