R. Blaine Cochran

I thought I knew

Revisado: 02-17-22

I have been married for a long time and recently found out that the woman I was married to has a certain pathology that often made me feel like I was losing my mind.
While reading this book I thought back on many exchanges between us and how I would’ve handled them differently. I don’t know that the book would’ve been enough but it’s more than enough for two fairly healthy people trying to make it in a world that is not very supportive of monogamy and family.
God bless you Jeff and Shaunti for doing this work and making it available to those of us that still have a lot to learn!
I plan on reading this book through numerous times and I’ve already learned so much that is making a difference in a new relationship I have!

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Don’t be fooled by the word free

Revisado: 01-27-21

I have known Kurt for six years and I have been with him in a variety of situations. I know how passionate he is about all of us being a better version of ourselves particularly through the humility of self-awareness and the motivation of kindness.
I have constantly gone back to the test he is offering you as a free resource. It has helped me understand the people I work with better as well as my own family members and friends. I say beyond a shadow of a doubt that it will help you understand yourself better specifically as it relates to your instinctive drives.
How can any of us optimize the important relationships in our life unless we take the time to do so? This is a minimal investment for maximum results!

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Helpful but disappointed

Revisado: 01-12-21

I purchased this book to learn more about Kepler. While the book shared a number of details about his life I found some of them to be completely irrelevant to the story and contradictory to other historical documents about his life.
I appreciated the authors explanation of the tension between his faith and his scientific research, but I felt like too much of the authors bias came through.
Kepler was a strong Christian man and so naturally his world and life view came through his work and writings just like everything you and I do is an expression of our beliefs.
I can partially excuse the author on this because he is clearly a product of our modern educational system with all its bias toward theology.
He constantly mentioned words like force or power that are still issues of question in the minds of all scientists today. To clarify, I am referring to causation.
We are all merely studying effects and no truly honest scientist can say he has an intelligent scientific explanation for causation. The modern scientist with all his so-called answers is exercising the faith of his belief system just like you and I do.
I am weary of scientists or anyone authoritatively claiming that they have the mysteries of the universe figured out! Logic demands intellectual honesty and I do not think the author provides that in his book. He should have given credence to the possibility that theology and science can and do go hand-in-hand. His repetitive comments that science and theology need to be reconciled reveal a failed logic using the frailties of people to conclude that God and theology has no place here.
To further extrapolate, if the author had differentiated the more pure aspects of Kepler’s motivations from the churches institutionalized failings I would have respected that more. In other words, it is important to differentiate between the person of Christ and the people that called themselves his followers, and their careless and selfish execution of Biblical truth and wisdom.
In failing there he failed to acknowledge man’s propensity to seek power over and manipulate others.
Kepler was a brilliant man and a Christian and in this modern society that thinks the two can not exist together that should’ve been stated more clearly as opposed to taking that for granted as fact in the implications the author puts forth.
I find Kepler to be quite intriguing and it encourages me to pursue truth like he did while being careful how I interpret the tensions of living in the finite limitations of time and space, especially with all that we don’t know that exists outside of time and space. For that which exists outside of our finite knowledge, I believe represents eternal power and even more important the Creator, God Almighty and the person of Jesus Christ whose existence in time in space is scientifically proven.

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