The Father You've Always Wanted : How God Heals Your Father Wounds

by Ed Tandy Mcglasson

It is a tragic reality that many people never experience the solid, positive presence of a loving father. This lack of fatherly influence and care has deep ramifications for life, including how we interact with others, raise our own children, and understand God as Father. But God promised that he would not leave us orphans, that everyone who believes becomes an adopted son or daughter of a loving Father in heaven.

Ed McGlasson shares his personal experience of having lost his own father before he was born. With deep conviction and strong encouragement, he invites hurting people to take heart and have hope in their heavenly Father who loves them, blesses them, and will never leave them. Readers will take away a new sense of purpose, identity, and value that they have been searching for their whole lives.

Genres: Christian

192 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2013

Reviews

[Jarmo Larsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a book about God's fatherly love for His children and how God can be the father you've always missed in your life. The book describes a rich and perfect paternal relationship that only can be found in God, the perfect Father. The author himself lost his father early and had an absent stepfather, or a stepfather who had high expectations and demands of his stepson, and he explains and gives his testimony in several ways.

The book makes you dig a bit more into your own childhood and your relationship with your own father. What this book manages, which no secular psychology book on the same topic does, is to come up with a Father solution in God. For the most part, Ed Tandy McGlasson manages it well, but there is a lot of repetition and too many stories from his own life, the lives of others and his minisry where he promotes his message. Some of the stories are inspiring to read, but sometimes it becomes a bit to much to swallow, even when the stories are good. The book is helpful when it comes to noticing and becoming aware of negative aspects that you've got from your own father, and the importance of dealing with them by letting God's paternal love take over in once life and on the the concerned areas.

The book also sometimes makes the topic seem a little abstract and utopian. Sometimes you'll get the picture that as soon as you manage to understand that God is a father, things will work out perfectly. I don't claim that the author claims that, but after reading the book you can get a somewhat glossy impression of God as a Father. Despite this, the book brings out important aspects and is probably a book that many people out there needs to read.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of those books that in itself is good, maybe even great for people who need to hear this message, but for me, it was just too much of the same thing all way through. The stories in here are good, and there are good pointers, but all rely solely on Mcglasson's experience, and there is almost no reference to serious literature on this serious topic. Yes, the bible can get you a long way in understanding the need for a father, and more so the need for the Father, but sometimes it becomes too smooth when claims about our nature are not backed up. It's written in a very preacher style, and I would have liked more of a counselor/psychiatric style. As many typical American "father" books, this also is full of sports analogies, because sports seems to be the way to teach boys.

[Janet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Received this book from a Goodreads giveaway and the author, Ed Tandy Mcglasson. I had a very good relationship, and still do, with my dad and Father. I know many people who have not. Having Christ in your life makes all the difference. I finished this and gave it to a friend who has many unresolved issues with his father, who is now deceased. He is a much better father to his son, though he does push him to football. He was grateful for the insight, but he still wants his son to play football, as he did. That's OK because he tempers it with more hugs and few lectures. Thank you for the opportunity to share this lesson.

[Candy Shepard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very healing.