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Editorial Review:
Do you desire to unleash the potential in your kids? Do you want them to stand on your shoulders and soar to unfathomable heights?
In The Difference a Father Makes, Ed Tandy McGlasson challenges dads to excel in fatherhood and equips them to do so. Using the model of Jesus and God the Father, he contends that setting up goal lines in the lives of children, marking when they enter into adulthood, is a must -- and a father's job does not end there. In a powerful way, he answers the "Yeah, but how?" question every man asks after being stirred to be a good father.
Discover the potential you have as a father to make a difference in the lives of your children! Learn how you can empower your children to pursue their dreams!
The Difference a Father Makes: Calling Out the Magnificent Destiny in Your Children Reviews:
"The Difference A Father Makes" Makes A Difference 
2009-05-07 - Fatherhood is like a bull elephant in a china shop. It's affect will be brutally felt. As a father and a pastor I've thought, fought, and taught through quite a bit about the subject of fatherhood, and I am elated to have found this resource.
I read this book in one sitting - skipping the gym and forgetting the Red Sox on TV (that last one is notable for me). This shows that McGlasson is engaging. He effectively hammers home the truth that fatherhood is deeply foundational to the identity of a child. This leads you to McGlasson's big idea: The Fatherhood of God enables, inspires, and guides the difference a father makes.
This little book offers four treasures. First, you'll be reminded again of the incredible importance of fatherhood. Second, your attention will be drawn to the Gospel of Jesus as means to having the God of the Universe as your Father. Third, you'll see beautiful things in the relationship of the Father God with the Son of God. Fourth - and this is the unique contribution of this book - McGlasson will offer powerful, practical ways to make that difference in your child's life.
The book is brief. There's more to say about fatherhood. And my eyebrows raised a few times at some of his Scriptural interpretations. But as I finished, I was ready to buy a bunch of copies and hand them to the men in my church. Again, I found this book unique in the way it opens one heart to fatherhood, opens a father's heart to his children, and opens one mind on practical ways to "make that difference" to your child.
Read "The Difference A Father Makes." You'll be affected. And it will make a difference.
everyone should buy 
2008-12-20 - As a young man who is going to be a dad for the first time in April, I am so glad I came across this book!
Every man who wants to make a difference in the life of a young person needs to pick this book up.
A generation is crying out for father's who live this way!
Good book
2008-07-17 - This was a very good book! Someday, I'd like to read a book of testimonies from women about how their father made a difference in their lives. And testimonies from women whose lives would have been different if their father had been present in their lives. We learn a lot from each other's experiences. Perhaps that could be the authors's next project.
Challenging for this Father
2008-04-21 - This is an encouraging book for the father who is striving to be the spiritual leader of his family. As the author shares touching personal stories from his life, he motivates fathers to go beyond the cultural expectations to bless their children and equip them for adulthood. Though I did not connect with the deep emotional wound of not knowing my father's love (and felt that the question "What does my dad really think about me?" does not necessarily define my true identity), I was challenged to be a help my children develop their self-confidence and understand my unconditional love and acceptance. I appreciate the experienced and biblical insights, though I did wonder about the book cover picture - it displays a father who looks an actor in a passion play!
Dad is Destiny for better or worse
2007-03-06 - When a woman makes peace with her father she makes peace with a fundamental part of herself. When you see a confident woman whose ability to hold her own esteem without overdependance on external validation ... that is most likely a father's daughter. These are women whose fathers were there, who protected them, and who were instrumental in being an involved parent. Such women have a healthy template for emotionally healthy relationship with a man and are often secure in their identity. If dad encouraged her to excel, she does. A friend of mine had a father who was a corporate lawyer of much success who pushed her in athletics to the point she was on the 1980 Canadian Olympic Speed Skating Team that went to Lake Placid BEFORE she was a legal adult. My father was frustrated that I hadn;t mastered the alphabet by age 5 that he drilled the ABCs into me one night after dinner until I walked away from the table reading a book cover to cover without stammering. Ever since then I became a bookworm and his demand that average was unacceptable still haunts me - especially when I have my share of failures like we all do. Just like Athena and her father Zues (see Awakening Athena) this is the father's legacy whole and distinct from a mother.
On the flip side women who have not made peace with a less than favorable relationship to their father owe it to themselves to heal this loss. Every female should have two involved biological parents or adoptive parents. Sadly, this is not the case. So ... the best thing is to co-opt the experience through the proper counselling and finding role models that heal. That said, it is best for women still hurting from father loss to NOT use a boyfriend or spouse to work out their father issues. Healing at the source is the best and sometimes just making peace with it once and for all independant of whether dad ever comes around is a gift you give yourself.
