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

#12: Meet Me in the Middle

Ephesians 1:17

03/10/2025 MONDAY'S WORD |EPHESIANS

“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.”
~Ephesians 1:17

The Rabbinic concept of kavanah has been diversely practiced and understood throughout the centuries. At its core is the intentional directing of one’s heart and mind to meet so that one’s actions display a holy response to God.

When Paul asks God to pour out the Spirit of wisdom and revelation upon and into the Ephesian believers, he is modeling for us that which ought to be our own prayer for ourselves and for our brethren.

Kavanah has four important practices:

Prayer
Studying Scripture to know God better
Loving other people
Doing your life’s work

Essentially: Pray, Study, Love, Live, Know….

The mystics took kavanah to a place where mystery meant that God had a secret knowledge that could be unlocked if you learned the key, and that one could advance in levels of secret knowledge… not unlike a secret society. They went to places with the Gospels that took God away from relationship with us and put God into a system of religion and hierarchy.

Paul has already established that all wisdom and knowledge is already ours for the taking… no hoops, rituals or hidden secrets to uncover. We are simply being called into a deeper and more deeply experienced relationship with God our Savior through Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Paul upends and flips over kavanah; prayer, study, loving others and working hard do not bring us closer to God. God moves closer to us as we experience the Trinity-given Treasure Map of Blessings, which will then affect how we pray, how we study, how we love, and how we live…

No works, lest any person boast.

Dive More Deeply

Take another look at the principles of kavanah and apply them to your own walk.

Pray

Do you have a prayer life?

If so, what does it look like in its frequency and its content? How much of the time do you spend in prayer asking from God or listening to God?
If not, then why not? Be intentional and honest with yourself as to why or what it is that keeps you away from a prayer relationship with God.

Study

How much time do you spend on a daily/weekly basis inside the pages of Scripture?

When would be the best part of your day to spend 15 minutes in God's Word?
What interferes with your desire to hear from God?

Love

This is the love word which means self-sacrificing.

What 'fun' but non-productive/non-positive activities can you eliminate or condense so you have time for prayer and immersion in Scripture?

Live

This is about being in the moment and experiencing your best self.

Get out your journal and write down some ideas of what your best self would look like.

How do you imagine your best self? Be specific.
What would those closest to you say your best self looks like?
What do you imagine God has in mind for your best self?

Know

In the coming days as you pray, study, love, and live…

Jot down your daily observations about how you are growing closer to God, where you still feel distant, and ways you can surrender more to the Holy Spirit.

You're doing good work. This isn't easy to do! But like anything worthwhile, the effort will pay off.

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