KEVIN LANE. MATC, BTh, CPLC

MEET THE COACH

I'm a happy and dedicated husband to my best friend of 34 years, father to four adult children, grandfather, and a sinner saved by grace who loves and is loved by Jesus.
About Me

For over 25 years, I dedicated my life's work to pastoral ministry to teens and their parents. At the height of the COVID pandemic, my attention turned to helping teenagers who were impacted by trauma, isolation, addiction, and a lost sense of purpose that the global experience amplified. Recovery is

I love Jesus, doing projects around the house, and helping others find joy and purpose in life. When I'm not working, I use my time writing, reading, cooking, re-learning how to play guitar, and dreaming about chocolate lab puppies.

My Commitment to Personal Growth

After receiving a cancer diagnosis in February of 2024, my coaching practice was refocused to pursue the best choices for my recovery and survival. One year later, through changes in lifestyle and successful treatment, I am carcinoma-free and healthier in body, mind, and spirit than at any time in my life.

Credentials

Certificate of Ordination, Grace Gospel Fellowship

Certified Professional Life Coach (CPLC), IBCC
Addiction & Recovery
Brain Health

Mental Health
Youth Mental Health
Additional Certification & Training
Conflict Intervention Skills, Crisis Prevention Institute
PCIT For Traumatized Children, Univ. California, Davis
CORE Certification, Youth Specialties
Strategy Training: Growing a Healthy Youth Ministry, Sonlife Ministries
ABOUT QSC

Mission. Core Values. Coaching Objectives.
The QSC Mission

QuadShot Coaching strives to point clients toward an active, growing relationship with Jesus Christ in every aspect of their lives.

Core Values
1. Scripture-based Authority: Everything I do, believe, and present as a coach comes through a Scriptural hermeneutic. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
2. Truth-Seeking: The coach/client relationship must be transparent, authentic, and honest for the sake of growth and forward movement. (1John 5:20)
3. Authentic Witness: Authenticity will draw people to Christ. (Philippians 3:12-14)
4. Life-Altering: QSC pushes clients to explore their comfort zones to expand outward as they grow deeper in their life purpose. (2 Timothy 1:6-7)
5. Humility: All ministry must be clothed in humility. (1 Peter 5:5-6)
6. All-Encompassing: Living a full life encompasses a whole-person approach; mental, emotional, personal, and physical transformation (Luke 10:27).
7. Sanctuary: QSC provides a safe place for clients to question, brainstorm, and grow. (Psalm 27:1)
8. Intimacy: Our relationship with Jesus is our youth ministry. (Psalm 139)
9. Awe-Inspired Wonder: Ministry must allow us to regularly rediscover the astonishment of the vastness of God and His infinite love for us, compel us to seek answers from His Word, and leave room for His continual work in our lives. (Philippians 3:7-16).
10. Creativity: QSC coaches clients to be free to discover and express their God-given creativity (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Coaching Objectives

The QSC objective is to help clients establish the following five components in their lives:
1. Purpose: Centering God in their lives rather than centering their lives upon themselves.
2. Understanding: Growing more and more like Christ, and less and less like the world.
3. Success: Seeing people through the eyes of God, with the heart of God, and with a desire to share God with others.
4. Fellowship: A time of communal growth for the Body of Christ. It can display itself in different aspects of the Christian walk.
5. Service: Taking what the Lord has taught us (internal) and expressing it into the lives of others (external), both believers and non-believers.
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Today's Brew

MONDAY'S WORD—TUESDAY'S QUESTION—WEDNESDAY'S THOUGHT—THURSDAY'S PRAYER—ETC/WHATEVER

#1: Before We Start (Check the Lenses)

Ephesians 1:0

12/23/2024 MONDAY'S WORD |EPHESIANS

The word Inspire comes from the Latin inspirare, "blow into, breathe upon," figuratively "inspire, excite, inflame," with connotation that the receiving of this breath is to ones spirit and the giving of it is from the Divine.

I began a venture to explore the epistle to the Ephesians as a verse by verse journey to metabolize what the text may be suggesting, should it manifest itself into our daily thought and practice, as a weekly devotional for my high school students. Some of my college-aged students caught wind of it and asked me to provide it for them as well. Over time, a mailing list subscription which included parents and friends of students and friends of friends grew…

The rules I set for myself are simple:

Explore the epistle verse by verse—or in the shortest segment I could—and allow the idea of that excerpt to speak on its own.
Allow the Epistle to build itself, and minimize importing the theology from other Scriptural texts to define the Ephesian texts. There may be cross-referencing, but I want to allow the Ephesian text to be its own template.
Pursue the practical theology contained in the text, and not one contrived by culture which I then would push upon the text. What does God want for us to know about ourselves and about Him as it is written?
Each devotional will build upon the last.

Additional Groundwork

I should also help the reader understand that I am making a few assumptions and assertions which inform my response to the biblical text, as well as identify some specific hermeneutical biases which I concede and accept. I do not wish to convince the reader to accept my biases or hermeneutic—just as I would expect the reader to hold to their own and to respect mine. If we can navigate each other comfortably through this understanding, our dialogue could reflect richness and beauty.

So here's where I am coming from:

I read the Old and New Testaments as the Divinely inspired, inerrant word of God. You may think differently. I don't. If you would like to have a discussion about this, we could certainly do so on a different platform.
Scripture is a living text. It's truth is timeless.
Words matter. History reminds us of this. As words evolve with culture, it is important to push as closely as we can to the intent of the author within the culture and to original audience so as to avoid allowing our own interpretation of the text to trump the integrity of the text itself.
I am acknowledging my own bias as I both read the text and read into the text. Each of us brings our own unique and personal hermeneutic to the conversation.
A conversation is not the same this as an argument.
I will do my best to stay true to what the majority of biblical scholars recognize as the corpus of accurate texts from the collection of over 25,000 Koine Greek manuscripts.
Scripture was written with the intention of being read by everyday folk, and not held for ransom by intellectual elites or the upper echelon of religious hierarchy.

I hope this venture provides insight to how precious you are to God. Come back on a weekly basis for more.

Enjoy!

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