The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast
Are You Serious? This Conversation Could Change Everything
17 Feb 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Didn't bring my Bible for this episode. So it's my emotional support.
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Chapter 2: How does Madi's flight story illustrate the concept of eternity?
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You look so cute today. You look cute every week. No, you're very kind. I did forget that the last episodes, I forgot to glue on my press-on nails. So we did that on the way this morning. Those are press-ons? Listen, there's some good press-on nails out there. I was the queen of always getting my nails done.
And then I had a child and I was like, so we're gonna order some from Amazon and just glue them right on.
Hold on, wait a minute. They have some good ones out there. I've never seen ones that good. I know. And the color, if you guys aren't watching this on YouTube, you need to go click over right now so you can see because they're like mint green with gold and there's a cool little shape and design to them.
But they look really good. They got some good ones out there. I was like, Grant, do we go French tip or do we go fun? And he's like, let's go fun. And so we went fun. I love that. How long do they stay on for? Oh, not long. Not long with a baby. Maybe other people who don't have a baby can go a little bit longer. But like a couple days or is it one day? It can go a couple days.
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Chapter 3: Why is discussing heaven considered a loving act?
Okay. Okay. Usually I just do it for the occasion. Got it. Yeah. Well, then we but we did it for today. So we're feeling good. Amazon.
That's even better.
Amazon, Ulta.
I'll be I'll be looking because I am the queen of getting my nails done. And I know that there were new reports that said how bad gel nails are. I get a Russian manicure. It lasts like five weeks.
Russian manicures are the best.
They're the best.
That's what I did before I had Hosanna. They're literally the best. And I didn't bring my Bible for this episode. So we were talking about this yesterday. It's my emotional support.
It is.
It's like a security blanket.
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Chapter 4: Would a good God really send people to hell?
Where is your Bible? It's in the back with Hosanna. And she's asleep. So we're just, right now it's written on my heart. When she wakes up, we can get the Bible. That's good.
Okay.
Well, we've had so many great conversations. We've talked about living an honest life. We talked about lies. We talked about truth. We talked about sin and shame, all kinds of things. And today we're going to talk about eternity, which I'm excited to talk about. Yeah. I feel like we don't talk about it enough. But of course, we're going to start with a listener question. Yes.
This one is from Allison. She says she's 31 years old. She's single. And she's been wanting to be a wife and a mom since she was a little girl. She says, I've watched my closest friends all get to be pregnant together and get married around the same time. And I often ask God, when will it be my turn? Any advice?
First of all, that is so real. And I'm so sorry that that's just felt so hard. And like, God, where are you? Why have you not answered my prayers? And why have I not gotten this desire? And it feels like everyone else has. And I remember for me when I graduated college, I mean, I lived in Alabama. I know it's a little bit different in California, but you also got married really young.
But everyone got married at like 21, 22. And so I graduated college young. And I remember I was actually going through a breakup and all of my friends were getting married. I was in like 10 weddings and I was single. And I was just asking the same question. And I just wrestled with the Lord. Like, why isn't this happening for me? Is there something wrong with me?
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Chapter 5: How can we avoid getting too comfortable in this temporary life?
Why are you not blessing me in this way? Why does it feel like everybody else is getting the gift that I'm not getting? And I just remember coming across, I believe it's Psalm 84, and it says, no good thing does God withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
And just reminding myself that God is not withholding good from me, that this where he has me right now is intentional and beautiful if I allow it. And also reminding myself that this desire is not bad.
That the desire for marriage and having kids is not a bad desire, but reminding myself that Jesus is the ultimate gift and making sure that he stays the greatest desire and my hope continues to stay in him. And that's just what I would encourage you with, Allison, is just put your hope in Jesus and not in just what he can give you. And that desire is a God desire. God created marriage.
And especially for females, that was something that I believe is kind of innate in us. But just making sure that Matthew 6, 33, that we seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and everything else will be given to us. And so making him the greatest desire and the biggest priority, I would say. I mean, what would you say?
Yeah, you know, I feel like it's a difficult question because my heart comes with compassion and understanding, even though I Listen, I was married at 20 years old and had three kids by 25. So I feel a little bit like I don't want to sound like I'm just giving advice, but I've never had that struggle before. But my heart comes with compassion for you.
But I think I've watched some of my friends that are my age or a decade younger than me that have been praying for their husband and praying for family. And some of them got that a lot later in life than they were hoping, but some of them got that. Like my best friend, she got married at 40 years old and had her one and only child at 41 years old.
And that happened way later than she wanted, but she got that. And then I have other friends that are still in their 40s, still praying, still waiting, still desiring, still wanting. And the thing is the Bible doesn't promise any of us that we will have a spouse. He calls some people to singleness. And like you said, our greatest desire should be with the Lord.
But I understand that sometimes that actually feels like the disappointment and you're trying to reconcile how do I want to desire God so much so that it outweighs me having a husband and children and that kind of stuff. So my heart goes out, but you have to remember what God says, look to truth and know that he has good things planned for you.
It just might not be what you have desired or hoped for, but he's not going to withhold good from you. And so I also would say to Allison or anyone struggling with this is that keep keep moving through life. Keep doing what you're doing. Your life shouldn't be on hold because you're waiting for a spouse, because you haven't had a child yet. Life doesn't start at marriage.
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Chapter 6: What advice is given for those waiting for marriage?
And I'm like, but it's the day of the wedding. Like I'm missing the rehearsal dinner. I'm, you know, anyways, I was really stressed. But in that moment, I walked away a little frustrated, but it reminded me, I'm like, but she was honest with me. She told me the truth. She could have lied to me and said, hey, any flight you get on will take you to the destination you want to get to.
You know, she could have said any plane will take you to where you're trying to go. Oh, you want to go to Colorado? Okay. Yeah. Like any of these planes will, will take you there. Like any plane will take you to the destination you want. That would have been unloving because that was untrue. There was only one plane that could have gotten me to my destination.
And unfortunately the gate was closed and I missed my chance to get on that flight. And in the same way, we live in a time where I think we're so afraid to speak the truth about eternity and the truth about heaven and the truth about hell, because we want to sound loving. We want to make everyone feel comfortable. We want everyone to feel like, yeah, whatever you believe, whatever you think,
Any ticket will get you there. Any plane will get you there. Any gate will take you there. You can be a good person. You can, you know, just go to church on Easter. You can believe any religion, like as long as you, and we believe these things and we
We speak those things and we don't speak the truth a lot of times because we're afraid of that kind of uncomfortable feeling or that uncomfortable conversation. But the truth is what is loving because if we're not speaking the truth and it's ultimately leading them to a bad destination, say I would have gotten on one of those planes and it took me to
you know, a country overseas that was in the middle of war, you know, and I got on that plane and I landed right in the middle of that. And I'm like, wait, you told me that this was going to take me to my destination in Aspen, Colorado. Like, and now I'm in the middle of a war-torn country that wouldn't have been loving. And so, you know, Jesus is really clear in John 14, 6, that I am the way.
the truth and the life. And no one comes to the Father except through me. There is one way Jesus is the true ticket to heaven. He is the only way to eternal life. And it feels like a very exclusive claim. It's a very controversial claim that Jesus made.
but it's really the most beautiful, freeing and inclusive of any religion because Jesus is like, hey, you don't have to be a really good person and work your way up to me. Like I came to you, I made a way to you. And that's free. And extends the invitation to everybody. Everyone. And so, yeah, I just, I think that it's a world where people are really hungry for truth and for what's real.
And Jesus said, I'm the way.
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Chapter 7: How can someone read the Bible without feeling overwhelmed?
But there's another road that's provided that is open to all of us. And so it's not that only you are headed to hell. I'm headed to hell too, but by the grace of God, because I believe and trust in the Savior that Jesus paid the penalty for my sin and lives in Do I get to be in his presence when I die? And everyone has that available to them.
Yeah, so true. We talked about this in a previous episode, but Ephesians 2 talks about it. Like we were all deserving of wrath. Every single one of us, we were all born into sin. And that was the price. That was the price of sin, which was death, which was hell. And because of Jesus, he stepped in and he said, I'm going to take your sin and I'm going to give you my righteousness.
I'm going to give you a right standing in relationship with God. And I'm also going to give you life and not just life here, but life eternal. And we just live in a time where there's so many lies and deception. The enemy has done such a good job of deceiving our minds to get so comfortable here and to live like this is the only life. And this YOLO mindset of you only live once.
And it's such a lie because the new phrase that we're going to make popular, Candice, is YOLT. You live twice. You only live twice. And how you live here is going to determine how and where you live forever. And that's why this life matters so much.
And it is so freeing and it is good news because when you place your hope and your belief and faith in Jesus Christ and his death and resurrection and you choose to follow him, you don't have to work your way up to him. You just receive his grace. And so when you were asked the question, hey, if you die today and go to heaven and you're face to face with God and he says, why should I let you in?
You don't have to wonder, well, I think I did enough good things today. I think I honored my spouse today. I think I said thank you to that person that did that for me. You don't have to wonder if you did enough good things.
You get to say, actually, it has nothing to do with me and everything to do with Jesus because we can't do enough good to get us into heaven and we can't do enough bad to get us out of heaven. It's only the finished work of Jesus Christ that gets us into heaven. And that's the true ticket. And it's the most freeing thing ever.
Like we've talked a lot about on these episodes we've done that you and I both had this belief system for a little while of like, I can do enough good. Like I'm a really good person. And I think that that's, whether we recognize it or not, that's probably the reality of even people listening right now.
And I think, you know, I know you're very close with Jonathan Pakluta, Pastor Jonathan, and he was on this show. We talked about spiritual warfare for a whole season, great conversations. And, you know, he witnesses to everybody that he comes in contact with, everybody. And I really appreciate his approach, too. And I've heard him on stage many times.
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of having an eternal perspective?
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Yes, there's definitely been some pretty, I'm very outspoken about my beliefs on a lot of different things pertaining to what scripture says and has to say about our identity, our sexuality, our relationships, our everything, our calling, our purpose, our wiring. And there's been lots of hard conversations, but you know, Jesus was really clear when he talked about it in Matthew 7.
And this passage has been really, really heavy on my heart in a way that it like keeps me up at night. When Jesus looks in the face of many people and he says, hey, one day many are going to come before me and say, Lord, Lord. Did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not heal the sick? Did we not do all of these miracles and things for you?
And he's going to look at many people and say, but I never knew you. And that is such a scary reality because I think that we're gonna be shocked by a lot of people that make it into heaven and a lot of people that don't. And that word many is really scary because you can do a lot of good things and you can do a lot of God things. but still miss God completely and miss the whole heart of it.
And so I've had to have some conversations with people and with friends and you know what? And I've had friends that have had to have hard conversations with me of even just like, what's your intention? Like, what's the purity of your heart, Maddie? Like, are you actually making this all about Jesus or is this a little bit about yourself right now? Mm-hmm.
And I think having those people in your life is needed. But yeah, those conversations can be really hard. I can't think of an exact moment of a time where it's caused like a relationship to completely end. But even in like sharing the gospel with people that I don't know, there's been some hard moments of people who very much do not want to hear the gospel or just like reject it.
And that's okay too. But what about you? Like, especially in your space of acting and kind of being in the secular world, like has there been relationships or even encounters with strangers where you've shared the gospel or the truth about eternity that's caused kind of a like not good reaction?
And then maybe the opposite too, where you've seen like, wow, this conversation really led to like revelation.
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