How Candace Cameron Bure Got Serious About the Bible
By Movieguide® Contributor
Candace Cameron Bure explained how she came to be a serious Bible reader, making it a necessary part of every day rather than a book she opened when she felt like it.
“I’ve been praying for a desire to read the Bible and know God for 25 years,” said when asked how she made reading the Bible a daily practice during an Instagram Q & A. “I continue to pray for it. I’ve started and stopped reading through the Bible many times over the years. Life always got in the way. Just like the gym, I knew nothing would change if I wasn’t willing to show up. Every day.”
“Three years ago, I decided enough was enough and that I would be consistent at all costs. I made my time with God a priority and I’ve never looked back,” Bure continued. “Now, I can’t imagine starting my day without time with Him. I need it. I want it. I desire it. I have to have it. I’m now on my third trip through the whole Bible chronologically. My advice is to start praying about it and choose to get serious about it.”
When previously discussing her Bible habits, Bure shared that the most helpful resource to keep her on track is Tara Leigh Cobble’s The Bible Recap podcast. At the beginning of 2023, she encouraged her fans to follow the podcast was well to keep their Bible reading goals for the year.
“Who’s reading and listening to the @thebiblerecap with me? If you haven’t started, it’s never too late! You’ll be so encouraged to read the entire Bible chronologically with @taraleighcobble because she’s fun and helps us see who God is in the Bible – not just ourselves.” Bure wrote.
Focusing on who God reveals Himself to be in the Bible is an especially important aspect of Bure’s approach to her Bible reading and is one of the reasons Cobble created her podcast in the first place.
“I wanted this to be different from a lot of daily Bible reading plans that always end with an application of how you should apply the lessons you’ve learned,” Cobble told Forbes in 2019. “They’re usually something about what does it tell you about your life and how you should live. I just feel like that’s a broken lens through which to view Scripture. The primary role of Scripture is to show me who God is, and if I behold God, then my life will naturally begin to conform around what I learned about Him.”
Movieguide® previously reported:
On the latest episode of Candace Cameron Bure’s new podcast, the FULL HOUSE and singer Tara-Leigh Cobble they tackled the question of why God says ‘no’ when we pray.
Bure and Cobble followed up in previous discussions about prayer and focused on moments in life where God says no to our prayers.
“I’m thinking of all of my things in life that I’ve prayed for that God has said no to,” Cobble told Bure after the question was posed to her. “And some of them have been big, like I did lose a sister to cancer. And just those things that are so hard to move through. And if we approach prayer as getting what we want, we approach prayer with a wrong understanding.”
“If I approach you and my only conversations with you are just to get what I want, don’t you feel a little used and manipulated by that?” she asked Bure. “But if I’m approaching you just to have a conversation with you, and maybe I get what I want, maybe I don’t, but I’m just approaching you because I like you and we’re friends, that’s a totally different way of relating to somebody.”
“When we approach God with a… ‘here’s my outcome and if you don’t give me this, then you’re not good,’ we’re treating God like he’s a vending machine,” she explained. “Here’s what I’m programming in and you better deliver this or else. We approach it as though it’s transactional
and not relational.But prayer is not about getting what we want. Prayer is about getting God.”
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