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Living in the Kingdom of God: A Biblical Theology for the Life of the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

This brief, accessible book offers a unique approach to the theme of the kingdom of God and to biblical theology. Sigurd Grindheim explains the whole Bibleʼs teaching on the kingdom of God, discussing its implications for the Christian, the church, and politics. As he traces the theme of the kingdom through the Old and New Testaments, he shows how Jesusʼ preaching of the imminent incursion of the...

out of their graves. The new creation is here, the world as God intended it to be. The kingly rule of God is here. There is a more subtle point that Jesus also is making in his reply to the Baptist. He is quoting from several passages in Isaiah, and all these passages have something to say about salvation and the new creation, but they also contain some serious words about God’s judgment. When God comes to bring salvation, he is also going to punish the evildoers. But Jesus is not quoting any of
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