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Finish Line Podcast Episode 61

Jim Wise, Financial Advisor, on Why Generosity is the Only True Financial Freedom

You may know that accumulating more money has never guaranteed contentment, yet still feel the pull to treat financial security as something you can build for yourself.

What might change if you began measuring financial freedom by how freely you can obey, give, and trust God with the resources He has entrusted to you?


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Meet your guide

Jim Wise, a financial advisor with Ronald Blue Trust, brings nearly four decades of financial services experience and a deeply personal understanding of biblical stewardship. Before becoming a Christian, Jim pursued wealth through constant lifestyle expansion, accumulating debt while discovering that each new purchase left him searching for the next one. After he and his wife, Laurie, came to faith, Jim immersed himself in Scripture’s teaching on money and began putting what he learned into practice.

Experiences with tithing, debt, and unexpected provision transformed his understanding of financial freedom from having enough money to being free enough to trust and obey God. That conviction eventually led him to Ronald Blue Trust, where he could openly integrate biblical principles into financial planning.

Jim also shares practical frameworks for generosity, including biblical giving priorities, cash and asset giving, estate planning, and the opportunity to fund Great Commission work through the coming wealth transfer. By the end, you may see every financial decision, including what you give and what you leave behind, as an opportunity to steward God’s resources with greater purpose.

What you’ll gain

  • Why more wealth can produce less financial freedom
  • How obedience can deepen your trust in God’s provision
  • Why biblical generosity should shape your financial planning
  • How to build giving around what matters to God
  • Why estate planning deserves the same stewardship as spending
  • How your wealth can help advance the Great Commission

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

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What does genuine ministry partnership look like?

Explore how to foster trust, alignment, and shared mission in your giving.

In our Intervention Series on the Applied Generosity Podcast, we’ll help you become a more thoughtful, discerning, and faithful partner.

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Quotes to Remember

  • “Financial freedom will always and only be a function of how much money we are able to give away.”
  • “Biblical stewardship wasn’t just something we read about in a book, it wasn’t just a Bible study, it became a part of who we are.“
  • “Being generous is the only thing that can lead to financial freedom.”
  • “Figure out what God is passionate about and direct your resources there.”
  • “A Biblical study on what is on the heart of God, that we should be giving to is a very helpful in building a giving strategy.”
  • “We are called to make disciples not converts.“
  • “How much to the Kingdom and how much to the kids.”
  • “It is very difficult to be consumed by God’s word every day and not have that automatically cultivate God’s missional heart inside you.”

Links from the Show

Bible References from the Show

Romans 10:17 | Faith Comes from Hearing

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Matthew 28:19-20 | The Great Commission

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.

Acts 1:7 | Times and Dates Set by the Father

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.”

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