Why We Can Do a Better Job At Helping Each Other Than Any Government or Charity

Which Is Better? Letting Charities Distribute to the Poor, or Helping the Poor Ourselves?

(Nehemiah chapter 5, verses 1–13) By Pastor Paul J. Bern

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