Should You Follow Your Heart? (The Bible's Answer Might Surprise You) Ep. 143
The Kirk Cameron Show
Kirk Cameron
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Our hearts are meant to be transformed, to be renewed, to be changed, and then guided by the spirit. |
| 0:07.0 | Without the spirit, your heart cannot and will not choose to do what is right. |
| 0:13.3 | Our hearts want what is wrong, but for us to do what is right, we have to have a power stronger than ourselves, which has to be the spirit. |
| 0:28.4 | Is following your heart good advice or is it advice that you should never actually follow? |
| 0:34.7 | That's what we're talking about today, but before we get started, make sure to like, |
| 0:37.8 | subscribe, and hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode. Dad. I love this topic. James, |
| 0:42.9 | what made you pick this? I think that this is a topic, or more accurately, a phrase, that people |
| 0:48.9 | kind of say a lot of times as advice is follow your heart. Right. |
| 0:58.5 | And I don't think people actually understand what they're saying when they say that. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah, what is my heart? What is following your heart actually entail? |
| 1:02.0 | And secondly, I think that as I've grown in my understanding of human nature |
| 1:08.3 | and just my own understanding of myself, I think following your |
| 1:14.3 | heart being the precipice of the thing that you should follow is actually not good advice. |
| 1:19.9 | Not good advice. |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.4 | But I think it's well-intentioned for a lot of people. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.2 | They just want to kind of encourage someone so they say, follow your heart. |
| 1:26.7 | What could possibly be wrong with following your own heart? It sounds so altruistic. It sounds so authentic. It sounds like being the true you, I'm following my heart. What's wrong with that, James? Why am I asking you? You don't even have a heart. You're heartless. You're like the |
| 1:45.1 | tin man. You have no heart. You need a visit to the Wizard of Oz. Exactly. No, but I think we should go |
| 1:54.2 | into what people are actually saying when they say follow your heart. I don't think anybody's |
| 2:00.5 | actually saying follow that beating thing that pumps i don't think anybody's actually saying |
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