Ron Bare Wealth Advisors CFP Financial Planner Manager Generosity Giving Finish Line Podcast
Finish Line Podcast Episode 95

Ron Bare, Financial Advisor, on Aligning Heart, Actions, and Finances

You want to steward God’s resources faithfully. But questions about generosity, calling, and impact are rarely simple.

In this conversation, you’ll hear from someone who has walked through these kinds of questions and learned along the way. Listen for the next step God may be inviting you to take.


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Meet your guide

Ron Bare is a financial advisor and the founder of Bare Wealth Advisors in Lancaster, PA. Raised on a fifth-generation dairy farm with a faith-filled family, Ron learned early in life the value of hard work, the biblical principles of stewardship, and the eternal impact of generosity. Those elements became the foundation of who he is and what he does as a financial advisor, or in his words, a “pastor of finance.”   

In this episode, Ron shares personal stories and many helpful thoughts to show the power of intentional generosity as a conversation with God, and how giving of your finances, giftings, and time can change a life, a community, and even affect people across the globe.

What you’ll gain

  • How Ron’s upbringing shaped who he is today
  • The story of how Bare Wealth Advisors began
  • How God prepared and called him to be a “pastor of finance”
  • Implementing an intentional core value of generosity in his personal life and his business
  • How Ron’s passion for good stewardship in finances led to his family’s financial and practical involvement in supporting young moms in their local community
  • Advice for following the voice of God and your passions to know how to serve and where to give
  • The value of tracking generosity and its impact
  • Stewardship as a conversation with God
  • The power of collaboration in giving

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Quotes to Remember

  • “Plan intentionally, give generously.”
  • “We are pastors of finance.”
  • “The biblical principle of stewardship isn’t about how much we have. It’s about being faithful with what’s in our hands, even if it doesn’t feel like a lot.”
  • “The more that our works and our treasures are flowing together, the more our hearts will flow.”
  • “The most important thing anyone decides with their finances is how they interact with generosity.”
  • “Giving isn’t something we have to do; it is something we are invited into with God.”
  • “We always need to be growing in generosity.”
  • “If we don’t answer the question ‘what is enough,’ it can limit the impact that we have.”

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Bible References from the Show

Matthew 6:21 | Treasure of the Heart  

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.    

1 Timothy 6:17-19 | Rich in Good Works  

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.    

Luke 12:48b | Much Given, Much Required  

Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.    

2 Corinthians 9:6-8 | The Cheerful Giver  

The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.    

John 3:16 | For God So Loved the World  

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  

2 Corinthians 8:7 | The Grace to Give  

But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.

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