What to read next
by Corrie ten Boom
The Hiding Place tells the true story of Corrie ten Boom and her family, who hid Jewish refugees in Nazi-occupied Holland and paid for it with imprisonment in concentration camps, and it holds together as both a war memoir and a hard, honest meditation on faith, forgiveness, and God's presence in suffering. Groups that finish it tend to want either another true story of costly faith under real danger, or a book that lets them sit longer with the themes of forgiveness and grace that Corrie's story raises. The books below split fairly evenly between those two impulses: some are memoirs of persecution and courage, and others are novels that work out grace and redemption through story. Session counts run from 9 to 15, so there is room to match your group's pace and appetite for a heavier or lighter follow-up.
Our The Hiding Place guide runs 15 sessions with 106 discussion questions.
These are guides from our own catalog, ordered by how much each book shares with The Hiding Place: subject and themes first, then the kind of group it suits, then the same author. It is an editorial comparison of what the books are about — not a ranking of which is better, and not a claim about what other groups chose.
by Todd Burpo
Like The Hiding Place, this is a real family's story of holding onto faith through fear and uncertainty, though here the crisis is a child's near-death rather than war and prison. It is shorter and gentler, with 11 sessions and 68 questions, and its tone is wondering and tender rather than bracing, making it a lighter landing after Corrie's story.
by Elisabeth Elliot
This is another true account of Christians who paid with their lives for obedience to God, told with the same restraint and reliance on primary sources — journals and letters — that gives The Hiding Place its quiet authority. At 14 sessions and 98 questions it runs a similar length, and it asks the same hard question about whether faith is worth the ultimate cost.
by Brother Andrew
Brother Andrew, like Corrie, is an ordinary Dutch believer who finds himself doing something extraordinary and dangerous for God's people under an oppressive regime, and the book shares that same conviction that God equips ordinary people for costly obedience. It runs 14 sessions and 99 questions, similar in scope to The Hiding Place, but its tone is more adventurous and improvisational than reflective.
by Francine Rivers
Where The Hiding Place shows forgiveness lived out after unspeakable suffering, Redeeming Love works out that same theme of relentless, unearned grace through fiction rather than memoir. It is close in length at 15 sessions and 107 questions, but it trades the historical, first-person voice for a novelist's slower unfolding of a love story.
by Francine Rivers
This novel shares The Hiding Place's concern with faith tested by persecution and violence, here set in the ancient Roman world rather than Nazi Europe. At 13 sessions and 93 questions it is a bit shorter, and its storytelling is more sweeping and character-driven than the spare, testimonial style of Corrie's memoir.
by David Wilkerson
Like The Hiding Place, this is a true story built on the idea that God's power is sufficient against forces that look unbeatable, in this case gang violence rather than a concentration camp. It is a touch shorter at 13 sessions and 92 questions, and its tone is more urgent and immediate, focused on transformation happening in real time rather than on reflection after the fact.
by Nik Ripken
This book picks up the same question Corrie's story asks — whether God is truly sufficient when following him costs everything — and takes it around the world to modern-day persecuted believers. It runs 14 sessions and 99 questions, similar in length, but its approach is more investigative, gathering testimonies rather than following one family's story.
by Richard Wurmbrand
Wurmbrand's account of years in Communist prisons sits closest in spirit to The Hiding Place, sharing its unflinching honesty about suffering and its insistence that faith can go deeper than any cruelty meant to crush it. It is shorter, at 9 sessions and 64 questions, making it a good choice for a group that wants the same intensity in a more compact study.
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