Colby Gilmore CFP Ron Blue Trust Generosity Giving Financial Finish Line Podcast
Finish Line Podcast Episode 58

Colby Gilmore, Financial Advisor, on How Generosity Can Dramatically Impact Your Marriage

You may want your money to strengthen your marriage and reflect your faith, yet still find that spending, saving, security, and future goals can pull you in different directions.

How can you build financial unity around shared convictions, define what is enough, and use generosity to loosen money’s grip on your decisions?


Apple Podcasts →

Spotify →

All Episodes →

Apple

Spotify

Episodes

Meet your guide

Colby Gilmore, a financial advisor with Ronald Blue Trust and former CPA, began rethinking money while studying at Biola University with his wife, Christine. A Faith and Money course introduced them to biblical stewardship and led them, even as college students, to make a gift that showed them how generosity could become an active expression of trust rather than simply another financial category.

Today, Colby helps families connect financial planning with deeper questions about marriage, purpose, work, and faith. He explains why money conflict often reveals underlying differences around security, communication, and values, and how generosity can give couples something meaningful to pursue together. He also describes financial finish lines as a way to answer the question of how much is enough and free resources that might otherwise remain accumulated without a clear purpose.

By the end, you may see financial planning less as maximizing what you keep and more as creating clarity, unity, and freedom to use what God has entrusted to you.

What you’ll gain

  • How generosity can create greater financial unity in marriage
  • Why money conflicts often reveal deeper issues around security
  • How to define enough instead of continually accumulating more
  • Why financial finish lines can reshape your relationship with work
  • How generosity can protect your family from growing materialism
  • Why biblical stewardship changes the purpose of financial planning

Inspired? Take your next step

Try the Game of Life Simulator

Step into a four-minute interactive experience and see what unfolds as you decide how to manage your resources.

Start the Game
Game of Life Simulator Mobile Screenshot
Game of Life Simulator Mobile Screenshot

Quotes to Remember

  • “Generosity will never be off the table”
  • “God doesn’t need our money, He wants our heart. But He can do incredibly impactful things with whatever we give.”
  • “You can’t fail with God on your side.”
  • “God is compounding returns for eternity.” 
  • “We think about emotional intimacy, or spiritual intimacy, but we often don’t think about financial intimacy.”
  • “Couples that incorporate generosity free themselves to have a lot more fun, financial intimacy, and success.”
  • “Every client that comes in here, God has brought here.”
  • “How do you know when you’ve won the game? How do you know when you’ve reached the finish line?”
  • “I don’t know if I want to be comfortable. How do we put ourselves in situations that make us uncomfortable?”

Links from the Show

Bible References from the Show

1 Timothy 6:10 | The Love of Money is the Root of All Evil

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Mark 4:30 | 30, 60 and 100 fold

But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.

Matt. 6:24 | You Cannot Serve God and Money

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Use Our
Free Guide

Have you considered the ways you are uniquely called into generosity? We’re not all called into the same adventure.

Enter your information below and we’ll send you our free PDF guide to explore the specific adventure you were called into.

Generosity Profile Image

Use Our
Free Guide

Have you considered the ways you are uniquely called into generosity? We’re not all called into the same adventure.
Generosity Profile Image
Enter your information below and we’ll send you our free PDF guide to explore the specific adventure you were called into.
Generosity Profile Image

See Other Episodes