Ed Tandy McGlasson is a very big man with a very big heart for hurting people and a very big vision to reach them with the love – and the Blessing – of the Father.

A five year veteran of the National Football League, since his college days Ed has been – literally and figuratively – in the center of the action on the athletic fields of major stadiums all over America. As the starting center on four NFL teams in three of the nation’s biggest cities, he heard the cheers of huge crowds every weekend of his life from the time he was a young boy in high school. Ed details his life in his best-selling book The Difference A Father Makes – a book that has changed thousands of readers lives with nearly 200,000 copies sold since its release in 2004.

In his book, Ed describes first hand how he lost his heroic dad in a tragic plane crash in 1956. Through it all, he gained a father, a step-dad, who had a powerful, positive impact on him in the formative years of his life. Then, after a numbing knee injury nearly ended his college football career, Ed became an outspoken Christian comparing Jesus’ relationship with His Father to the relationship every father needs to have with his own children.

Ed’s book has put him in great demand as a speaker and encourager to men and women all over the nation. Ed challenges them to understand how it feels to be truly blessed by your father, to be both fully accepted and altogether appreciated. To the millions of men and women who have never experienced the blessing of their own biological dad, he offers practical steps to receive the awe-inspiring blessing of their Heavenly Father. Ed teaches, in very solid and systematic ways, how they can pass that blessing on to their families.

After his football career ended, Ed became the pastor of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Anaheim, California and in the shadow of the Anaheim Stadium where he once played in the NFL. He and his wife Jill and their five children have lived in Southern California for 28 years.

Ed has written a second book, Be-Loved – The Power of God’s Blessing in Your Life, and continues to minister at his local church. Ed Tandy McGlasson Ministries continues to expand its outreach, touching the lives of men and women throughout America.