Rare Faith Blog

By Cristie Gardner

Recently, our four-year-old granddaughter was trying hard to express something she wanted very much: extra playtime when it was clearly time for rest. She was doing her best to com...

A few years ago, my family spent spring break pulling a trailer on a road trip between Mesa, Arizona, and Salt Lake City, Utah—when the kids were younger.

Oh, I could tell you volumes about the adven...

I remember when my husband and I were trying to live on about $1,200 a month. We were both working full-time and fighting a losing battle just to stay afloat.

We listened to motivational audios that ...

Here is another installment in my Tender Mercies article series. Today's story comes from Diana Johnson, who writes:

Leslie, I'm so grateful I met you about 7-8 months before my husband's stroke. Rea...

I recently received an email from my mother that really highlights how much my thoughts and feelings about these principles have been shaped by her wisdom. She wrote:

Scripture couldn't be clearer th...

I stumbled onto an old message while looking for something else, and it's prompted me to bring together in one place a few different conversations I've had on this topic. It's not organized in any par...

In this short radio clip, I talk about the core principles from the Jackrabbit Factor during the Wayne and Jane Show on Canada’s EZ Rock out of Kootenay...

 By Stephanie Francom

There are two kinds of people in this world.

There are people whose last peanut M&M in the bag always has a rotten peanut in it.
And then there are those whose entire neighborh...

By Stephanie Francom

Do you think it’s really possible that pursuing a goal doesn’t have to mean running ourselves into the ground? Could it be that we’re actually making it harder than it needs to b...

In this audio, I talk with my Portal to Genius co-author (Garrett B. Gunderson) about Making Cents out of Setbacks, and the 3 levels of life les...

I was going through some files and came upon a message from one of our Mindset Mastery program participants, Carrie Newman, who shared this with our private program participant's group EIGHT years ago...

Today's Mindset Mastery Program participant spotlight is on Sherri C. She writes:

I don't even know where to start. The Jackrabbit Factor came into my life at just the very right moment to "jackrabbi...

Many summers ago on a family trip, we decided to throw together a few free presentations along the way. I had a blast doing them—probably because I’d deliberately left my suits at home, tossed my hair...

If you’ve ever driven in snow, you know the car doesn’t always go the way you want it to.

Goal achievement can feel the same way.

You might be doing everything you can to steer toward your goals, on...

Recently, I had to write my story again—explaining how we discovered the principles I now teach and how we tripled our income in just a few months. As I wrote, I reflected on the fact that I had perso...

A few years ago, I stepped outside my home and saw something that stopped me in my tracks. It didn’t seem possible—but there it was, right in front of me.

A massive 747 airplane flew by—so low and so...

My husband and I had been working toward a long-term goal for several years. Every so often, when the vision started to fade, we’d sit down to check in with each other. We’d ask: Is this goal still im...

This is one of my brain dumps. It’s not organized with literary brilliance—it’s just a brain dump. But it’s important, and I think it needs to be shared now. I’ll clean it up later. Maybe.

Here we go...