Work and Profit: How to create wealth | GOOD WORK | Andrew Wilson | Ecclesiastes 10 & 11
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Andrew looks at how our work creates wealth and why that's a good thing when it benefits others as well as ourselves. Drawing from Ecclesiastes, he explains how we can approach our work wisely, knowing that God is at work through what we do.
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