Daily Edification & Assurance Reader

Romans is the epistle God gave to establish the believer. It is where doctrine for the Body of Christ begins, and it is meant to be worked through carefully rather than sampled. Daily Edification & Assurance is a reader that takes you through it one day at a time — a passage to read, a written teaching session for that passage, and an audio recording of the same session you can listen to instead, or alongside.

The study follows the four-cornerstone structure of Keith R. Blades' survey of Romans, with a preface that comes first. Nothing is skipped and nothing is rearranged.

What the reader covers

• PrefaceSeven events in Acts that set the stage for Romans — and the completed Word that follows · 11 days
• 1stRomans 1–5 · 49 days
• 2ndRomans 6–8 · 92 days
• 3rdRomans 9–11 · 59 days
• 4thRomans 12–16 · in preparation

About six minutes of listening a day — a little over 21 hours across everything available now.

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How it works

The reader opens in any web browser — phone, tablet, or computer. There is nothing to buy and nothing to sign up for. It remembers where you left off, so the next time you open it you land on the day you were on. You can mark a day as finished, star the ones you want to return to, and read at whatever pace suits you.

On a phone or a tablet held upright, the reading fills the screen and the list of days opens from a button when you want it, so you are not scrolling past navigation to reach the teaching. On a computer or a tablet held sideways, the day list sits alongside the reading where there is room for it.

It can also be added to your home screen, so it opens with a tap like any other app on your phone.

Any day can be printed — the reading on its own, without the players and buttons, headed and footed on every page. The same button will save it as a PDF if you would rather keep it that way.

If you prefer to listen through several days at a stretch, each day can be added to a queue that plays straight through in order. A day’s Further Study recording, where there is one, follows the day it belongs to rather than being left to the end.

Reading and listening offline — optional

By default everything streams, and you need a connection to listen. If you would rather have the material on hand you can save it to your device instead — entirely optional, and the reader works perfectly well without it.

Saving is done one cornerstone at a time, never all at once. Open a cornerstone and a button at the top of the day list offers to save that section: every Scripture passage, teaching session, Further Study recording and study sheet it contains. It tells you the size before you begin, marks the days already stored, and from then on that section opens and plays with no internet at all. Save one cornerstone and leave the rest streaming, or remove a saved section at any time to free the space.

Requesting access

The reader is not listed publicly. It is shared personally, by request, so that we know who is using it and can help if something doesn't work.