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Flourishing in the Desert: Hydrating with Living Water
Rev. Dr. Rand Burden

You can be busy in church and still be dying of thirst.

In Flourishing in the Desert: Hydrating with Living Water, Dr. Rand Burden invites you to rediscover the life-giving presence of the Holy Spirit. Through biblical teaching, Wesleyan theology, personal testimony, prayers, and reflection questions, he shows how the Spirit renews your soul, strengthens Christian community, equips believers for ministry, and guides spiritual leadership.

The journey begins with your personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. You explore how to recognize the Spirit's presence, grow in spiritual intimacy, receive your identity within the family of God, and live with greater openness and discernment.

The book then turns toward the Church, examining spiritual gifts, shared ministry, Spirit-led community, and leadership that depends on prayer and guidance rather than human effort alone.

This book is written for the thirsty - and for the people who serve them.

Written for committed Christians, pastors, ministry leaders, and small groups, this book gives language to spiritual dehydration and offers a clear path toward renewal. Its central message is simple: the Church does not flourish through more activity, programs, or strategy alone. It flourishes when its people drink deeply of the living water of the Holy Spirit.

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Education

Doctor of Ministry
Spirit Empowered Ministry: Discovering Ministry in the Supernatural Power of the Holy Spirit
United Theological Seminary

United Theological Seminary in Dayton, OH, is partnering with Aldersgate Renewal Ministries to offer a fully accredited, 3-year Doctor of Ministry Degree in Supernatural Ministry. This comprehensive degree will prepare leaders to live a Holy Spirit-empowered life of ministry, with training and equipping to help others in their ministry context to do the same. Students will learn how the Holy Spirit's ministry of power is connected to the dramatic advancement of the Kingdom of God as seen in the life and ministry of Jesus and the early church. This group will examine Spirit-directed and empowered ministry in church history and in the church today. We will look at the biblical evidence for why signs, wonders, and miracles are important. Being filled with the Spirit, intimacy with God, gifts of the Spirit, hearing God, prophecy, healing, deliverance, angelic encounters, raising the dead, "extraordinary miracles" (Acts 19:11), and impartation are some of the topics that will be considered. Times of prayer for the release of the Holy Spirit's empowerment and gifting in individual lives will be included, as we expect participants to be released into supernatural ministry and equipped to impart that ministry into the lives of others

Doctorate Mentor Rev. Dr. Frank Billman is currently serving as co-pastor of Middle Ridge Global Methodist Church in Wellsboro, PA. He also serves as Scholar-in-Residence at The Methodist Church of Barbados and as an Advisory Council Member for Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, Goodlettsville, TN.

For more information about the program, application requirements, and application deadlines, visit the Doctor of Ministry page on the United website.

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Education

Doctor of MinistrySpirit Empowered Ministry: Discovering Ministry in the Supernatural Power of the Holy SpiritUnited Theological Seminary

Books

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Rev. Dr. Frank Billman

Rev. Dr. Rand Burden

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Doctor of Ministry
Spirit Empowered Ministry: Discovering Ministry in the Supernatural Power of the Holy Spirit
United Theological Seminary