Ron Blue and I Share about Generosity, and What Louie Giglio Said That Made Me Laugh

By Randy Alcorn

August 18, 2025

In February, I attended the Kingdom Advisors annual conference, which gathered 2,500 Christian financial professionals who influence their clients to give generously to God’s kingdom. What joy to talk, worship, and be with those who love Jesus and desire to steward resources well, to His glory! And it was especially fun for me because my grandson Jake, who’s planning to be a financial counselor, also attended so he could take part in the college program at the conference.

The picture above is of Ron Blue, the founder of Kingdom Advisors, and I being interviewed by Sharon Epps, who’s their president. Ron’s wise, and he has a heart for what stirs God’s heart. (Check out his books Master Your Money: A Step-by-Step Plan for Experiencing Financial Contentment and Splitting Heirs: Giving Your Money and Things to Your Children Without Ruining Their Lives.) I know Ron to be a man who loves Jesus and desires to serve people. I love that brother. We have a lot of fun together!

Here’s the video of us being interviewed. What a privilege to be up there with Ron after forty-five years of serving in different but complementary areas of stewardship and generosity:

I’ll share another Q&A I did at the conference in a future blog. But I’ll end for now with something fun that happened. One of the keynote speakers was Louie Giglio, whose message followed the interview with Ron and me.

The times I’ve talked in person with Louie have been rich. In those conversations I’ve seen his depth of love for Christ, for the gospel, and for the welfare of others. (He’s also a huge celebrity among college kids because of the Passion Conference, so my grandson Jake was excited to hear him speak!)

For the second time in the last few years, Louie has spoken on Heaven when I have been present speaking on something else, and in both cases, he has been a bit self-conscious about that, making side comments down at me like, “I hope that's right, Randy.” 😂 I got a kick out of the intro to Louie’s message. You’ll see what I’m talking about in this two-minute clip:

Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of over sixty books and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries.

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