Rare Faith Blog

A few years back, a friend reached out after more than a decade of no contact. She said, “I found you on a site that listed you among people who have gone to the devil (along with a bunch of other peo...

By Mark Andrew Beach

Many success gurus talk about goal setting. In fact, it’s such a foundational part of the laws of success that if someone claims to be a success expert but downplays goal setting...

By Mark Andrew Beach

Since the newness of the new year still lingers, I felt it fitting to revisit the topic of resolutions and goal-setting. Of course, this process can begin anytime—regardless of t...

By Mark Andrew Beach

It’s another new year, and just about everyone in the personal development world is talking about resolutions and goal setting. I suppose I’m no different—except I really do want...

This is a fun throwback to when my sister (Valerie Ackley), who wrote the children's book, "What are You Thinking?" was featured in the newspaper. It's fun to recall her success and the impact her wor...

Throwback to my Great Recession experience:

I didn’t think it would take me this long to share the story of why I dropped off the map in May 2011, but it’s been on my mind daily—especially after the ...

By Mark Andrew Beach

I was totally in the zone with work the other day when my phone rang. It was my wife—and she was practically yelling in my ear.

"Are you sitting down?" she started, kind of calm...

(This was given to me by a good friend, Renae Pelo, the year before I took the "plunge" into homeschooling - it was instrumental in helping me have the courage to begin my own homeschooling experiment...

Throwback to 2011:

It’s after 2 a.m. and I’m still wide awake. I just read my sister’s blog, and it reignited something in me—the desire to share more of my real and raw experiences, too. So here com...

By Mark Andrew Beach

What do the scriptures really teach us about money? While space doesn't allow for an exhaustive study of everything the Bible says about wealth, I want to briefly touch on a few ...

By Mark Andrew Beach

So, for those of us stuck in the fog of wondering whether wealth even should have a place in our lives, let me say this clearly: my purpose in writing this is to emphasize that y...

By Mark Andrew Beach

When I started college as a freshman in the fall of 1977, I declared a major in music and dance. I was all in. I took two dance classes, earned a spot on the college ballroom dan...

By Mark Andrew Beach

"This law states that everything is energy and that energy is in a constant state of vibration."

The Law of Vibration teaches us that everything—everything—is energy. That energ...

By Mark Andrew Beach

When I’ve struggled—whether with a goal, a problem, a relationship, or even my physical health—I’ve often looked heavenward and pleaded, “What part is mine, and what part is Your...

By Mark Andrew Beach

I remember sitting in my seventh-grade science class when my teacher introduced us to a foundational truth of physics: “To every action in the universe, there is an equal and opp...

By Robyn Young

"One of the greatest skills we can learn in life is how to deal effectively with disappointments, because after all, life is full of them. Learning the skill not only helps us turn thi...

By Robyn Young

"Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth ...

By Robyn Young

Years ago, I watched the movie What About Bob?, a comedy about a man named Bob (Bill Murray), a deeply paranoid New Yorker who’s afraid of just about everything. His fears are so overw...