I'd seen it my whole life. On signs at football games. Painted on someone's face in the stands. Written on tape across a player's wrist. John 3:16 was everywhere — and for most of my life, it meant nothing to me. It was background noise. Religious wallpaper. The kind of thing you see so many times it stops registering. Then about three years ago, something changed. I started actually digging into Scripture. Really reading the Word — not skimming it, not sitting in a pew half-
I wasn't expecting it to hit me the way it did. I was reading through 1 Corinthians — really getting into the Word — and I landed on chapter 16, verse 14. One line. Eight words in most translations: "Let all that you do be done in love." — 1 Corinthians 16:14 I gave my first reading with it. And I remember thinking — this sounds simple. Six words, maybe seven depending on the version. How hard can it be? Then it actually landed. All that you do. Not most things. Not the big,
