How to Overcome Painful Challenges

Tez Brooks is a multiple award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, journalist, and author who understands the pain of sexual abuse, bullying in middle school, and then unfaithfulness and divorce.

As a former law enforcement officer and police chaplain Tez knows that the stressful position of first responders is often scary, unpredictable, and infuriating. Where do you go to refresh and refocus when the world expects you to be thick-skinned and independent?

As a multiple award-winning author, filmmaker, and international speaker, Tez Brooks’ work appears in Guideposts, Power for Living, The Upper Room, CBN.com, Clubhouse, Focus on the Family, Cru.org, and more. His editorials are featured regularly and seen by over 30k readers each month. He is the president of two chapters for Word Weavers International.

Overcome Challenges

First responders have one of the highest percentages of addiction, divorce, and suicide. As a police chaplain, Tez experienced the trauma of first responders and the need for hope. Tez’s story is an encouragement for anyone especially those who work as first responders.

Meditations Of Hope

Debriefing: Meditations of Hope for Those Who Protect and Serve is a collection of real-life experiences helping cops, correction officers, chaplains, and others to see God’s hand in all they do, so they can better understand His loving care for those working the challenging and dangerous job of first responder. 

It’s time to debrief. The stressful position of first responders is often scary, unpredictable, and infuriating. Where do you go to refresh and refocus when the world expects you to be thick-skinned and independent? 

It can be difficult to balance your physical, emotional, and spiritual health, along with your social and family life, as you focus on your role to protect the public. It’s easy to forget the bigger purpose God has for you.

The Single Dad Detour

Conventional wisdom holds that fathers have few parenting skills and that mothers always know best. The single father is often considered a mythical creature, found only in sitcoms as an object of humor or pity. Where does that leave single dads? Too often, it makes them susceptible to overcompensation or apathy. 

Tez Brooks knows those feelings all too well. He has traveled that road with his children after an unexpected divorce. The Single Dad Detour is the result of his journey and the lessons he learned along the way. It is a guidebook for the rocky road of single fatherhood, extending encouragement, confidence, and challenges, using specific examples from dads who have survived parenting and have hope to offer. 

There are no unreachable requirements for perfect fatherhood here and no twisty theological mysteries - just authentic, down-to-earth wisdom from one dad to another.

Adult-O-Nomics

Launching out and making your way in life can be hard. But it doesn’t have to be. Over fifty percent of all young people boomerang back home in the first five years. Often, this is caused by underestimating the curveballs life throws.

Within these pages is experience and know-how collected from famous personalities and others who’ve forged the path. This mix of ancient wisdom (adapted from God’s Word) and modern advice from contemporaries will place young adults ahead of the curve for more effective, faith-based adulting.

Brooks believes Adult-o-Nomics will encourage Gen Z, their roommates, parents, youth pastors, employers, professors, and more.

Josh D. McDowell, author of Straight Talk With Your Kids About Sex says, “Preparing for adulthood can be challenging and filled with mixed ideals. Tez’s book offers help.”

In 2020, Tez’s book, The Single Dad Detour, won Book of the Decade with Serious Writer Academy, and in 2022, Christianity.com listed him in the “50 Authors You Should Know.” Brooks has appeared in Guideposts, Power for Living, The Upper Room, CBN.com, Clubhouse, Focus on the Family, Cru.org, and more