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Kyle Borg

Kyle Borg

Husband of one. Father of five. Pastor of more. Rural enthusiast.

Winchester, Kansas •
135 posts •
Christmas

Putting the Mess in Christmess

December 12, 2022

Maybe Stephen Nissenbaum was onto something when he wrote: “It may not be going too far to say that Christmas has always been an extremely difficult holiday to Christianize. Little wonder that [some] were willing to save themselves the trouble.”

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preaching

Patiently Hearing the Word

November 11, 2022

It’s fascinating that an inspired letter — a letter that is the very breathing out of God — needs an inspired command to be patient with the breathed out word of exhortation. And if the word of God requires an exercise of patience how much more the preaching of that word

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sexual abuse

Sexual Abuse and Outpacing the Church

November 07, 2022

I am convinced that far from being behind society, the church should be leading in service to the abused. Why? Precisely because of who and what the church is. The identity of the church is not a liability in these matters but our greatest strength and advantage.

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Spiritual Abuse

Spiritual Abuse: Seeing What We Don't Want to See

September 22, 2022

This is the world we live in. It would be nice if we could close our eyes and leave unseen the sin in, toward, and around us. But that kind of naivety isn’t proper for Christians. Being a child of God means we need to be willing to see the things we wish would remain unseen.

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King Charles III and Securing the True Protestant Religion

September 10, 2022

With the death of Queen Elizabeth II the United Kingdom and a watching world are preparing for a lot of royal pageantry. It's a pageantry that comes with a lot of history and even a little bit of theology.

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Letter of James

When You're Not at Home

September 07, 2022

We are not at home. The church is a scattered people, and we will remain that way until Jesus with a call of command gathers us together and we will be with the Lord forever.

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Forgiveness

All Things Forgiveness

July 09, 2022

Forgiveness is central to the Christian ethic. As a forgiven people the glory of the children of God is to be a forgiving people. But, important as forgiveness is, it's also misunderstood, trivialized, and in the hands of some even weaponized.

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The Ten Commandments

The Fifth Commandment

July 08, 2022

“Honor your father and your mother.” This command was once engraved on the tablets of stone, was exemplified in the life of Jesus, and it is now written on the heart of believers by the ministry of the Holy Spirit and affirmed by Apostolic authority.

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vaccination

Employee Vaccination Religious Exemption

August 23, 2021

Individual Christians, civil leaders, and even clergy must be careful not to exalt their preferred applications of God’s moral law as rules which prohibit, much less contradict others’ convictions.

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Death

"Where I Am"

July 14, 2021

We cannot be with Jesus – in immediate communion with his glory – while we cling to the dust of this present and passing world. The answer to Jesus' prayer ordinarily requires that we die.

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presbyterianism

A City on a Hill

June 09, 2021

Openness and visibility is the ordinary handmaid to the work of the church and not a liability to our public image, and secrecy and concealment have no regular part in our labors.

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presbyterianism

When Presbyterian Rubber Meets the Road

May 24, 2021

This is where the rubber meets the road. This is Presbyterianism at work addressing what is, at least broadly speaking, the third mark of the church: issues of discipline. This isn’t ancillary to the work of the church but rests upon the very foundation of our identity.

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Christian Attitude Towards Persecution

Preparing for the Stewardship of Persecution

May 07, 2021

If a coming persecution should dispel that appearance for what it is – a mere mirage – then let the church of Jesus Christ assume its ancient glory and rest in the infallible promise of Jesus.

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Guilty!

April 21, 2021

As I watched and listened I felt it. I didn’t feel sad and I didn’t feel celebratory. But I did feel the weight and heaviness of that word: Guilty.

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pastoral ministry

What Does a Pastor Do?

April 01, 2021

“What does a pastor do?” Unsurprisingly, it’s a question I get a lot from people inside and outside of the church. Sometimes it’s asked with a note of interested inquisitiveness, and other times with a hint of jaded cynicism.

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sexual abuse

What If They Had Known?

March 05, 2021

The church should be a pasture where the littlest lambs are loved and protected, safe and comfortable. It should be a place that mimics the tender and gentle watchfulness of Jesus, and where our youngest members feel as cared for by Christians as they are by Jesus. It shouldn't be hunting grounds.

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3 John

Diotrephes and the Fracturing of the Church

March 04, 2021

Often the worst fracturing is done by arrogance, wicked speech, and divisiveness slowly seeping into the fellowship of the church and breaking it apart.

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Lent

Lent: Glitter or Gold?

February 16, 2021

Just because someone wants something to promote a good and godly end, doesn’t mean it will. So, does Lent have the appearance without the power: the glitter without the gold?

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social media

iGeneration and iDentity

February 12, 2021

My childhood was filled with significant and meaningful relationships that were important to my development. Like many kids my age I had normal community interactions at home, school, sports, and church. Whether it

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Lord's Day

The NFL's "Holy Day"

February 04, 2021

He’s commanded one day where those other things, good as they are on those six days, take a back seat to things of first importance. On the Lord’s Day — the very day that bears Jesus’ name — he shouldn’t have to compete for our attention and time.

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Current Events

When gods Fail

January 06, 2021

Let the politics and politicians fail. Let the elections go as the will. Let the gods stumble and fall so that our hearts – by any means necessary – are pried from the soul killing sin of vain confidence in men

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Church Abuse

A Parable from the Dead

January 01, 2021

In death, Ravi Zacharias bears his deserved shame and what that means only the Judge of all the earth knows, and he will do right. But let every church and congregation take heed unless He who holds the seven stars in his hand should remove the lampstand from its place.

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John Calvin

A Godly Citizen: Help From the Past

December 15, 2020

How can I be a godly citizen? In answering that question even among Christians there’s been over-the-top rhetoric about tyranny, a brutish need to self-assert "rights," a cowering in fear and anxiety, and a general lack of a wise and discerning spirit.

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Christmas

Away With The Manger

December 10, 2020

The fact that the Jesus, the Word of God, was made man doesn’t entitle us to make pictures of him scenic as the nativity set may be. To do so actually detracts from the true meaning — not of Christmas — but of the incarnation.

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Carl Trueman

Jumping Into the Rabbit-Hole

November 24, 2020

It’s not simply the LGBTQ+ community, or progressive liberals who have been influenced. We may not be eating the same apples but we’re eating from the same tree. Too much has been yielded to the modern self by Christians who, equipped with their Bibles, should know better.

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