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Trading Self-Reliance For the Only Source That Never Runs Dry
The River PRinciple
Rooted in Jeremiah 17, John Davenport draws on his own journey of faith, failure, business, loss, and hard-won surrender to unpack one of the most overlooked truths in Scripture.
The River Principle tells the story of the decade that nearly broke him: parents gone, wife devastated by late-stage Lyme disease, business collapsing, son homeless and addicted, everything he had built stripped away at once. And he shows, with unflinching honesty, how the River Principle held when nothing else could.
This is not a book about becoming wealthy. It's not a self-improvement program dressed up in spiritual language. It's not a formula for getting God to bless your plans. It's an invitation to stop managing God from a safe distance and start living as close to the Source as possible.
Because proximity to God is not just the goal of the Christian life. It's the only strategy that works when everything else fails.
PresseD, Proven, and Persevering
Leadership isn’t built in comfort—it’s forged in fire.
Every Christian leader eventually faces the collision of faith and hardship. In a world that celebrates strength, success, and self-reliance, Scripture invites us to something deeper: enduring faith. It’s the kind of faith that doesn’t break under pressure—but is refined through it.
John Davenport, CEO of DAVENPORT Engineering and a longtime C12 member, knows this firsthand. In seasons marked by loss, illness, business challenges, and personal struggle, John discovered that the fire doesn’t have to consume you—it can forge you.
His story, shared through C12, is a testament to how God shapes lasting leaders through trial, not in spite of it.
Read the full article on C12: Five Realities That Shape Lasting Leadership