Excel & Reflect Podcast with Garrett Bernethy

Season 1, Episode 20 — "Why Am I Here?"

H.G. Wells, Lord Byron, Henry David Thoreau, and cartoonist Ralph Barton — brilliant, accomplished, admired men — all confessed the same hollow ache: a void that success, friendship, and achievement could never fill. In this episode, Garrett asks the question every person eventually faces: Why am I here? Opening God's Word to Paul's sermon on Mars Hill in Acts 17:22–31, Garrett unpacks how science and philosophy can only wrestle with where we came from and why we exist — but Scripture alone answers a third question neither has ever dared to ask: where we're going. From Genesis 1:26 to Isaiah 43, this episode traces the truth that you were made on purpose, by a God who has been seeking you long before you ever thought to seek Him. If life has ever felt like an unanswered question, this episode is your invitation to finally find the answer.

"He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth... that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us." — Acts 17:26–27