Daily Bible teaching with Hank Garner
Each weekday, we open one letter and read it slow. Context, language, and the lives behind the words—without yelling or hot takes.
Season 2 · Week 15
Letter 074 · The Address · Sep 10
The verse says the iniquity of us all was laid on Him. Every clause insists on all. Does that include you?
Scripture: Isaiah 53:4–6, 12; Hebrews 7:25; Romans 8:34; 1 John 2:1
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Today’s letter · The Address
Fellow sojourner,
Today’s letter is for everyone who has ever wondered whether the cross was for someone else.
Isaiah’s language is emphatic: all we like sheep have gone astray; every one has turned to his own way; and the iniquity of us all was laid on the Servant. There is no exception clause. No fine print.
The harder question is not whether you can state that belief. It is whether you are living from it—whether you are still carrying what has already been laid on Him.
“Where in your life have you been carrying what has already been laid on Him?”
There’ll be more mail tomorrow.
The archive
Start with today’s letter, or walk backward through the passages that brought us here.
Isaiah 53:6
Isaiah 53
Isaiah 53
Isaiah 52:13–53:12
Exodus 20
Exodus 20
Exodus 20:1–17
Psalm 139
The weekly rhythm
Open the letter. Read it slow. Set the hook.
Who wrote it, when, and why. The world behind the words.
A story that opens the passage up. Plain language. The heart.
Where the letter lands. The hard question. The rub.
The full message, distilled from one end to the other.
About the show
The Bible is mail—from the Father, to people still on the road.
The whole canon of Scripture—Moses, the prophets, the Psalms, the Gospels, Paul writing from a Roman prison—is mail for people still on the road. Sent by a Father who has not forgotten where we belong.
Hank Garner is a fiction author, Bible teacher, husband, father, and grandfather from the American South. He has studied and taught Scripture for more than thirty years. His teaching is pastoral, scholarly, and direct.
If you’re homesick for somewhere you’ve never been, that’s the address on the envelope.