Matt Farmer President NCF National Christian Foundation HOPE Center Kansas City Generosity Giving Finish Line Podcast
Finish Line Podcast Episode 47

Matt Farmer, President of NCF Heartland, on the Infectious Nature of Generosity

When someone else’s generosity changes your life, you may begin to see your own resources, relationships, and opportunities through a very different lens.

Could the way you use your money, assets, work, family rhythms, and everyday decisions become a form of generosity that not only meets needs but points others toward God?


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Meet your guide

Matt Farmer, President of the Heartland office of the National Christian Foundation, brings an unusual background spanning Air Force football, the NFL, military service, seminary, community development, real estate, and nonprofit leadership. His generosity journey was deeply shaped when another couple sold him his first home for roughly half its value, giving him a firsthand experience of receiving radical generosity that he later sought to extend to others.

Matt shares how that experience grew into a broader approach to stewardship that includes graduated giving, spontaneous generosity, involving his children, and using vocation and relationships to serve others. Through NCF Heartland, he also helps generous Christians think beyond cash by considering appreciated real estate, businesses, and other non-cash assets as potential resources for giving.

He explores the power of giving collaboratively and treating generosity as a witness to God’s character. By the end, you may see stewardship as something that reaches far beyond your checkbook into every resource, skill, relationship, and opportunity God has entrusted to you.

What you’ll gain

  • How receiving generosity can reshape the way you give
  • Why stewardship extends far beyond money in your accounts
  • How to involve your children in everyday generosity
  • Why non-cash assets can unlock significant giving opportunities
  • How giving together can deepen generosity and shared purpose
  • Why generosity itself can become a witness to others

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Quotes to Remember

  • “Generosity is its own witness. It can be an apologetic itself.”
  • “In the next few years, we are going to be experiencing the world’s greatest stewardship opportunity.” 
  • “In the last few years, we’ve seen a record level of giving happen through the pandemic.”
  • “We are watching an unprecedented amount of resources go back out after an unprecedented amount of resources coming in.”
  • “Our mission is to mobilize resources through inspiring biblical generosity.”

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Bible References from the Show

Acts 20:35 | Better to Give than to Receive (MSG version)

You’ll not likely go wrong here if you keep remembering that our Master said, ‘You’re far happier giving than getting.’

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