The Finish Line Podcast A Map for the Generous Life, Introducing the Applied Generosity Podcast (Ep. 173)
On the Finish Line Podcast, we have always believed in the power of stories. Over hundreds of conversations, we have seen how God patiently draws people into generosity across an entire lifetime, often through unexpected paths.
Yet for many, these stories also surface an honest question: “What does this mean for me, and where is God calling me next?”
In this special episode, fellow Finish Line board members David Campaigne from Blue Trust and Matt Mancinelli from Generous Giving help us introduce our most significant development since the launch of the Finish Line Pledge: The Applied Generosity Podcast.
Each story we’ve shared in the last few years has been shaped by unique calling, personal surrender, and profound steps of faith. Yet over time, patterns have emerged. While no two stories are the same, many givers find themselves crossing the same terrain, wrestling with similar questions, fears, and decisions along the way.
Applied Generosity was created to help make sense of that shared landscape, exploring seven dimensions of generosity that repeatedly show up across the journeys we have heard.
It provides a map, helping bring orientation, language, and clarity to where God may already be at work in your own life and where He may be inviting a next step.
If you’ve been inspired by the stories you’ve heard on Finish Line Podcast, but long for clearer discernment about the next step in your own journey, then Applied Generosity was specifically made for you.
- David: “Generosity is a journey, like life is a journey. You plant a seed, you water it, but ultimately it’s God who makes things grow.”
- Matt: “We’re being invited into being more like Jesus as we give.”
- David: “God doesn’t need our money; what He ultimately wants is our heart.”
- Cody: “Some of the largest obstacles to living generously are fear and greed, and these are both addressed by answering the question, ‘how much is enough?’”
- Matt: “If I see an opportunity to bless somebody in a way that would boost their faith and I can come alongside them, that’s when I’m fired up to give.”
- David: “I want to know that my giving, whether to an individual or an organization, is going to draw people to Jesus.”
- Kealan: “Generosity is one of the strongest means by which God enables me to trust Him.”
- David: “How can we leverage the currency of that which is passing away into the currency of that which will endure forever?”
- Kealan: “Applied generosity is simply naming the shared landscape of the the generous life and providing some definition to it so we can see the whole picture and figure out where that next right step is in our own journey.”
- Applied Generosity
- David Campaigne, Financial Advisor at Ronald Blue Trust (see our past interview here)
- Heather Tuininga, Founder of 10|10 Strategies (see our past interview here)
- Matt Mancinelli, Managing Director at Generous Giving (see our past interview here)
- Journey to Generosity (JoG) with Generous Giving (see our interviews with cofounder, Todd Harper and CEO, April Chapman)
- Ronald Blue Trust (see our interview with founder, Ron Blue)
- The Treasure Principle (see our interview with author Randy Alcorn)
- God and Money (see our interviews with co-authors Greg Baumer and John Cortines)
- Museum of the Bible
- Hope International (see our interview with founder, Jeff Rutt or CEO, Peter Greer)
- The Finish Line Community Facebook Group
- The Finish Line Community LinkedIn Group
1 Corinthians 3:5-9 | God Makes Things Grow Luke 16:10a | Faithful in Little and Much
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much,
1 Timothy 6:17-19 | True Riches
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.
Matthew 6:21 | Treasure of the Heart
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
John 3:16 | God’s Generosity
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son.
Proverbs 16:9 | God Directs Steps
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Psalm 90:12 | Number Our Days
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Matthew 25:14–30 | Parable of the Talents
Matthew 22:37 | Loving God Fully
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
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