Candace Cameron Bure recalled pushing back against a movie line that referenced “following your heart.” To the script writer, she explained, “Actually, as a Christian we don’t follow our heart, because our heart is wicked and deceitful above all things…so we want to follow truth, and we find truth in the Bible.” After Bure shared that message from Jeremiah 17:9, the writer became interested in the scriptural advice and had a conversation with Bure about it.
The Holy Spirit gives us a new heart, said Pokluda, referencing Ezekiel 36:26, but we must guard it “as long as we’re in this fallen world [because] the flesh is still seeking to lead us away.”
Candace Cameron Bure: My Brother Is a Faith Hero
To wrap up the episode—and the season—Candace Cameron Bure, Lev Bure, and Pastor Jonathan Pokluda talked about their faith mentors and spiritual heroes.
“My brother’s one of them,” said Candace, about Kirk Cameron. He became a Christian first, she said, when he was about 17 and she was about 12. “He had the biggest hand in helping me find my faith like at 25, to really have a relationship with God,” she said of Kirk.
Bure’s brother also “paved the way” for her in entertainment, she said, noting that Kirk left that field to become an evangelist. “He’s just taken some massive hits over the years for standing up for his faith,” said Candace. “I really look to him for how he’s handled that with a lot of grace.”
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Pastor Pokluda said he is proud of Bure and Kirk Cameron’s witness and grateful for sister and brother’s family. “You and Kirk both are, in some ways, gluttons for punishment, because you live out your faith in the places that are most hostile to faith,” he said. “In a lot of ways, I would rather be proclaiming the gospel on the streets of Afghanistan than [on] Hollywood Boulevard.”
To Candace, Kirk, and podcast listeners, Pokluda offered encouragement to persevere. “Just keep going. Hold the faith,” he said. “You can finish…we’re not home yet, but we’re on our way. We’ll be there soon.”
