Anxiety or Contentment? What’s Your Choice?

2009 has been an unusually challenging year for many.  Along with a severe, sustained recession, there has been unprecedented political, social and spiritual upheaval across America. In spite of these issues, our God reigns! Let’s take this well-deserved pause from the action to take a deep breath and deeply consider before God how we’re doing in ordering our priorities and tending to His...

Bringing News of Great Joy

In C12 we often speak of ‘spiritual value added’ related to sharing the love of Christ through acts of service, sanctification and salvation. As we approach Christmas, with our calendars full of events and family gatherings, it’s vital to remember the amazing opportunity we have to faithfully and intentionally share Christ’s Gospel of grace and produce Kingdom fruit. It’s been said...

Marketing Demystified

 Marketing Demystified  “If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying “Circus coming to the Fairground Saturday,” that’s advertising. If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it into town, that’s promotion. If the elephant walks through the mayor’s flower bed, that’s publicity. And if you get the mayor to laugh about it,...

Am I a Pharisaical Leader?

Dictionaries define “pharisaical” as hypocritically self-righteous, condemnatory, excessively pious, holier-than-thou, sanctimonious, phony or two-faced. In essence, we can be viewed as pharisaical whenever we claim or pretend to be one thing, but are seen as imperfectly carrying it off (can I get an “Amen”?!). When we strongly proclaim one value system, yet are frequently viewed as...

Walking in the Spirit at Work

The “walk” in the Spirit is a very short walk, about 6 inches, the approximate distance between our ears. It is a battle fought in our thought life. Our actions are born in our minds. Continuing thoughts eventually become actions, and these actions comprise our walk. To walk in the Spirit we must learn to let Him make the choices of what thoughts we allow to continue. And in order to let Him...

Where Does Jesus Show?

C12’s tagline is “Building GREAT Businesses for a GREATER Purpose.” Imagine being a ‘fly on the wall’ and somehow being able to quietly observe your company as an employee, customer, supplier, or competitor would. What would you observe on a regular basis that would lead you to think that your company belonged to Christ and was being led by a believing manager or steward? What would you...