Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Dennis Informed, and this is the Daily Article for Friday, August 31, 2018.

America will bid one of its great heroes' farewell this weekend.

John McCain's body lies in state inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda today,

where a Senate colleagues and staff will conduct a memorial service at 11 a.m.

The public can then pay their respects from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Tomorrow, a televised funeral service in the Washington National Cathedral will begin at 10 a.m.

On Sunday, his body will be laid to rest in a private ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Much will be said about McCain's heroism as a prisoner

of war in Vietnam, his lifelong commitment to serving the nation he loved, and his passionate

devotion to his family and friends. Longtime colleagues in Washington will tell personal

stories and pay tribute to his life and legacy. One dimension of John McCain's life that has not received as much media attention is

his personal faith in Jesus.

McCain attended an Episcopal High School in Virginia, where he participated in chapel

each morning and on Sunday evenings.

There he began reading scripture and learned to quote from God's word at great length.

However, his faith became personal when his plane was shot down over Hanoi and he spent the next

five and a half years as a prisoner of war, two of them in solitary confinement.

He's written that during that time he prayed, quote, more often and more fervently than I ever

had as a free man. When he was moved from solitary

confinement, his Vietnamese captors wouldn't give him a Bible, so he led his fellow prisoners in

studying biblical passages, he quoted from memory. When he married his second wife, Cindy,

he joined her at North Phoenix Baptist Church. There, the message of God's grace became even more central

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