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

#20: Perspective Shift Required

05/05/2025 MONDAY'S WORD |EPHESIANS

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.”
~Ephesians 2:8-9

On Week 2, we explored how grace—like peace—is best understood when it is experienced; particularly when it is experienced through a relationship with the Trinity. Paul is now reminding us and emphasizing that the operational mechanism for receiving this grace is faith, and faith is not to be placed upon any willful act we have committed, nor should our faith be in any ritual—spiritual, religious, or ecclesial—in which we have participated or performed by another upon us. Faith always has an object, and the object of our faith is the atoning work of Jesus Christ, and not any work or our own.

An easier way to understand this call to faith is by using a variant synonym of faith: Trust; trusting God brings about the overflow of God’s grace. Trusting in any act of our own doing keeps us in the infinite loop of egocentricity and self-righteous thinking, through which we may pridefully boast or promote someone or something as greater than the actions of the God of Salvation and Author of Life.

Trusting God opens the door for us to step through and experience the full measure of God’s goodness for our lives. It’s true that trusting in our actions or attempts to experience God—a process sometimes referred to as ‘works-based salvation’—will certainly give us an experience or set of experiences, but they will be ones devoid of a true relationship with Jesus; the kind He has initiated and invited us into. Trust, and no other action, is required… and even this is given to us by and through the power of the Trinity.

Dive More Deeply

Putting our faith in something of our own doing is a vote of confidence toward our own egocentricity. It makes sense, then, that if something comes solely from God’s power, no one should ever have the bragging rights. We should all remember this the next time we feel the need to elevate ourselves over another when we forgive them for wronging us and then ‘grace them’ in the process with our ‘benevolence.’ This saving and restoring grace is from God, not ourselves.

If this faith-trusting of God makes sense to you for the receiving of life-saving grace, does it equally make sense to you that day-to-day trusting in God brings the life-giving grace Jesus spoke about that provides “having life to the full” (John 10:10, NIV)?
What are the areas in your life where you trust God less than you trust in your own abilities to provide goodness, healing, pleasure, or repair?

If “the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy” as Jesus says in John’s Gospel, where could you experience grace (and peace) right now in the areas of your life where your trust in God’s abundance has wavered? List five areas below. Be as general or as specific as you wish, but I invite you to be honest with yourself and brave to the point of relinquishing your control over to God through faith in Him to walk with you and guide you in love.

This Week

The instructions for this week's exercise are simple:

Allow yourself time throughout the day to contemplate where God should have your trust more and more as you lean less and less upon your own understanding.
Record these significant moments in your journal.
Remember them when you go through your Morning Intentions and your Evening Relections.

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