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

What Do You Want?

Today's Jolt: The Desires of Your Heart

03/08/2024 ETC. / WHATEVER

The Apostle John remembered a time when two men encountered Jesus for the first time. One of them was Andrew, of whom we know from what comes later, becomes a follower of Jesus and also one in his 'inner circle' of disciples. As they walked behind Jesus, following at a distance out of respect or reverence or curiosity, Jesus turned and asked them a question that (judging from their responses) they were not prepared to answer: What do you want?

“If you could have anything in the world right now… What would it be?”

In the past, I have presented that question to teenagers and adults as an invitation for them to explore the heart of their responses. And now, I’m asking YOU this same question, without limitations… The sky is the limit. What do you want? What do you really, really want?

When Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit out into the wilderness to be tempted by Satan (as recorded in the Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke), Jesus was possibly faced with a multitude of different temptations by the Enemy that spoke to the immediacy of his situation. Being in the wilderness, he was presented with set of circumstances which threatened to reassign different values to priorities.

Because he had fasted to the point of feeling extreme hunger, Satan tempted him to turn the stones to bread and take care of his own needs; to use his inherent power for his own gain and to circumvent reliance upon another.
Because Jesus came to serve, rather than be served, Satan tempted him with power which would promote sinful pride; perhaps a performance of taking God’s name in vain were Jesus to display self-service power and call it God’s will for his life and for his actions.
When presented with the temptation to receive the fullness of earthly blessings as paramount to all that life has to offer in exchange of simply realigning his focus and connection from the Creator God to a created god.
When all other arguments failed to detach Jesus from keeping God at the centrality of all that is good, Satan’s response was to present the Scriptures out of context to misrepresent the Author of Life to subtly advance an agenda which leads to spiritual death.

All of these temptations failed, and I believe that was because these were temptations were not the desires of Jesus’ heart.

So… What about you? What do you really, really want? Some of the answers I received from the teens involved Krispy Kreme doughnuts (an endless supply for free), extreme wealth, and super-popularity. The adults later echoed similar responses, but a few also said that they would want renewed youth and vigor. I guess Satan was actually on to something, because those responses all fell under the umbrella of the Enemy’s temptation of Jesus.

Take a moment to set this article down and read Psalm 37.

What did you notice? In both the NIV and the KJV (I read both), verse 4 says something about desire; specifically our own and how we can be on the receiving end of these desires from God’s own bountiful provision, if we just trust (vs 3) and delight ourselves (vs 4) in God. From a worldly perspective, this sounds like a pretty good deal! If I just trust God and make myself happy to do so, I can expect the coffers of my consumeristic/self-centered desire to be found overflowing! But, as you might expect… this is not what David is saying.

The idea here is to trust God in all ways and in all things, and to find pleasure in our our relationship with Jesus ever more-deeply, with each passing year/month/week/day/hour/moment. When we do so, a dramatic shift will take place in the nature of our desires. More and more, our desires will look less and less like the desires of a consumer. They will become the desires of the consumed; worshipful, fruit of the Spirit-lead, transformed by the renewing of our minds-altered, bona fide new desires of our being.

This isn’t about getting what we want, but about wanting what we get, and God leading us to follow His will for us. Jesus understood this fully; that knowing and following the will of God is more important and more fulfilling than following the desires of fallen flesh in a broken world. Jesus knew what was really important, and he did not allow anything to distract him to reestablish his priorities. His priorities were set by God the Father, God the Spirit, and by Himself before all of eternity, that nothing could be more important than pursuing a divine relationship with the Creator of All Things.

Jesus time in the wilderness was a sort of “stress-test” to measure a healthy heart. Our everyday world is certainly filled with distraction, temptation, and pitchmen trying to get us to reassess our values. Time for your stress-test: Are you growing as a consumer, or as one being consumed?

Conclusion

I think that from the start, one has to determine the answer to this question as a practical tool for understanding our own spiritual alignment. From there, we can move forward with our goals and the plans it will take to bring our goals into fruition.

Write a list of the top five things you want in your life; five things under each the following categories: Material, Mental, Spiritual, Emotional and Relational (so, 25 five things total).
How do the desires of your heart indicate where you stand in relationship to God?
Are you alight with receiving the answer 'no' from God when you pray for something specific? (Similarly, are you ok with the silence if that prayer seems to go unanswered?).
Ask God in prayer to reveal to you this week the desires of your heart that HE has for you.