Emphasis Preaching Journal

Magician, Doug Henning, says that the basic goal of his performances is to create wonder! Even if the illusion he creates is pure fakery, the sense of wonder in the beholder is real, he says. In Exodus, God is associated with a sense of wonder and awe. Rudolph Otto's famous book, The Idea of the Holy, explains that to be awestruck with a sense of the holy is to experience a paradoxical combination of fascination and dread.