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Finish Line Podcast Episode 39

Tim Mohns, Seasoned Financial Advisor, on Giving WITH God Rather than Giving TO God

You may already give faithfully and manage money responsibly while still wondering why generosity can sometimes feel more like another Christian obligation than a source of freedom and closeness with God.

What changes when you create financial margin first, then allow giving to become an ongoing conversation with God instead of simply a percentage, strategy, or measure of impact?


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Meet your guide

Tim Mohns, a financial advisor with Fountain Wealth Management and longtime participant in Generous Giving, Kingdom Advisors, and the National Christian Foundation, has spent decades helping people think about money, stewardship, and financial planning. Yet his own transformation began when professional success, faithful tithing, and church leadership still left him sensing that something was missing.

Tim shares how a six-month financial finish line experiment changed his relationship with money and with God. Instead of automatically saving everything beyond his chosen lifestyle, he created margin for generosity and began intentionally listening for how God might want those resources used. Over time, he learned to resist turning giving into another optimization problem focused solely on Kingdom return and instead see generosity as participation with God.

That perspective also reshaped his financial advising practice, marriage, work, and approach to wealth accumulation. By the end, you may see generosity less as something you accomplish for God and more as a practice that can deepen surrender, discernment, freedom, and relationship with Him.

What you’ll gain

  • Why responsible money management can still leave you spiritually restless
  • How a financial finish line can create room for listening
  • Why maximizing giving impact is not always the main goal
  • How generosity can weaken money’s grip on your identity
  • Why financial advisors should practice what they encourage clients
  • How small giving experiments can deepen everyday spiritual discernment

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Quotes to Remember

  • “Is this really all there is? … I’m doing everything I’m supposed to be doing. Why does it feel like I’m just eating paper? It’s tasteless!”
  • “What really struck me was hearing the testimonies of people who had really tried generosity.”
  • “I’m more of a save-a-holic than a spend-a-holic.”
  • “Giving went from just another box to check as a good Christian boy scout to an invitation to do something with my heavenly father.”
  • “The giving piece of it has been way more about me and intimacy with God and leading me back to what my heart’s desire really is, which is to have a great relationship with my heavenly father.”
  • “I used to think that God needed me to ‘fund the kingdom’.”
  • “I don’t think God’s heart is always about maximizing ROI, like somehow he’s going to run out of money.”
  • “We don’t have to worry about the results, we just get to be a part of the process.”
  • “You cannot take someone through something you’ve never done yourself.”
  • “People talk about giving as something you ought to do, but I talk about it as an opportunity.”
  • “I really want to come beside people and give them the freedom to take risks.”
  • “Find a way to create a little bit of financial margin, and then get into a listening posture.”

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Bible References from the Show

Matthew 6:19-21 | Store Up Treasures in Heaven 

19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

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