Conversion of a Rocket Man: Charles P. Morse

God providentially used several key events to draw my father, Charles Phillips Morse, to salvation and into the ministry as a creation pioneer in the late 1960s when a six-day biblical creation was largely disbelieved.

On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy delivered a shocking speech before a special joint session of Congress describing his ambitious goal of sending Americans safely to the moon before the decade’s end. Little did Kennedy know that his space scheme was a cog in the Master’s plan to relocate my MIT-educated dad, with family in tow, to southern California to accomplish other purposes for His glory.

As our nation raced toward space, God pursued rocket scientist and devout evolutionist Charles Morse. Through the ministries of godly men, my dad was confronted with his sin, realized his spiritually bankruptcy, and turned from his former life to trust in the finished work of Christ on the cross. But he still held to an evolutionary view of the world.

Wonderful testimony of God’s grace in the life of this family. You have to wonder how much of our problems as a nation relate to our abandonment of Christianity, the decline of families and the vital role of fathers. I remember as a young child believing my mom was the most beautiful of women and my dad was one of the smartest men I knew (he did wind up working for NASA so I guess I wasn’t too far off). How I wish we could somehow return to those days during the 50’s. We weren’t rich but we had our needs met. Never locked our doors there in Ventnor, N.J. and America was respected by most nations around the world. Most people had a regard and respect for traditional values even if they chose not to practice them. Now, the future looks not so good and our world seems to be on the threshold of something very dark. We spit in God’s face as a nation while at the same time claiming He doesn’t exist - our superior intelligence” determining he’s just yesteryear’s boogie man who’s intervention in our lives individually and corporately is no longer required. “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the House of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?” I Peter 4:17 I don’t know if there’s still time but I say, please America come back.

Yes, true, but God wants to call people out of the world,

His first priority is not to redeem the culture.

God will prove Himself to be more powerful than our weaknesses and more faithful than our indifference.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!”

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