Steve Kozak

Finding Jesus in the Chaos of Travel Sports It’s 11:00 PM on a Friday. The trailer is finally packed, the truck is fueled up, and you are staring down a four-hour drive through the night. Your dinner was a lukewarm slice of gas station pizza, and your kids are already asleep in the backseat. If you are a racing family, or any family involved in travel sports, you know this chaos intimately. The weekends blur together in a mix of highway miles, early morning drivers' meetings, and the...

God keeps showing up in the strangest places—like a Love’s Gas Station. We have a confession to make: the car broke down again. On the way to the track this weekend, we had to replace the starter… again. If you have ever been stranded with a trailer full of race gear, a tired family, and a weekend of ministry ahead of you, you know that sinking feeling in your stomach. But here is the thing we keep learning, over and over, one breakdown and one race weekend at a time: God always has a...

Missing Church for Sports and the Sunday Guilt Trip "We missed you on Sunday." If you're a Christian racing family (or any other sports family for that matter), you’ve probably heard those words. Maybe they came from a well-meaning church member, a Sunday school teacher, or maybe even your pastor. And while I choose to believe they are meant to communicate care, they often land like a heavy weight on your chest—like you’re being condemned for making a choice to give your kid a chance to chase...