As we watch family and friends leave the faith, do we look more like the elder brother, the father—or the younger son? Daniel Smith, 23, arrived as a freshman at Cedarville University in 2008.

Have you ever had to apologize or ask for forgiveness and you wrote out your apology or rehearsed it over and over in your head so, at the right moment, you would say it perfectly and sincerely. Well, ...