David Benham's blog

As my brother and I travel to grow our company we are often asked where we studied business. Our answer is always the same…we didn't study business in college, just the bible. As a matter of fact, we were American History majors!

The National Day of Prayer is just around the corner and America needs your prayers, now more than ever. Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.” 

Yet today we continue to face unabated moral decline, economic turmoil, military conflict in the Middle East, and the ever-increasing assaults against religious liberty.  

I read a couple quotes in my Bible this morning that I had written in the margin of Judges 2. The quotes startled me because of their reality, yet what startled me even more was the scripture reference that they applied to.

"All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel."

- Judges 2:10

Today is Good Friday. It's good because Jesus took our bad and made us good through His blood. I thank Him today. I wanted to share a few words today from Oswald Chambers titled, The Collision of God and Sin

He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed. – 1 Peter 2:24

Teddy Roosevelt once said, "I never knew a man who lived a life of ease whose name was worth remembering."  This quote was true then and is still true today.

As we travel or go about town we are often asked, "Is BENHAM Companies a business or a ministry. After drilling down the definitions of both business and ministry, we are left with the fact that both of these words basically mean the same thing - service.

You should have seen the look on my kids' faces when I told them the story of a how a man’s poor decision cost the lives of every person in his family. I explained an Old Testament story of how Achan's entire family was destroyed simply because he decided to disobey a clear command of God.  Many of us have read the story of Achan in Deuteronomy, but few of us stop to consider how his wife and children must have felt about their father's failure, and how he felt about it as a father.