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Journal Articles

• “Crossing Old Line Boundaries: Works of Lutheran Charity,” Concordia Theological Quarterly, vol. 71:3/4 (July/October 2007), pp. 251-264.
  • Crossing Old Line Boundaries
• Paul’s Collection for Jerusalem, June 2007, 57 pp., LCMS World Relief and Human Care, web resource
  • Paul's Collection for Jerusalem
• “Easter 4, Psalm 23 – Shorn by the Shepherd,” Concordia Pulpit Resources, vol. 15, part 2, Series A (February 13-May 15 2005), pp. 36-39.
• “The Church’s Role of Mercy in the Community,” Lutheran Theological Journal (Australia), 2003, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 65-73.
• “The Church’s Role of Mercy in the Community,” Lutheran Forum, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 12-17.
• “Liturgical Uniformity and Church Polity in the Augustana and the Formula of Concord: The Church Orders as Hermeneutical Key,” Lutheran Theological Journal (Australia) 2002, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 1-13.
  • Liturgical Uniformity and Church Polity
• “Abraham Calov on Eastern Orthodoxy,” Logia, Reformation 2000, vol. IX no.4, pp. 5-14.
  • Abraham Calov on Eastern Orthodoxy
• “Review of Sasse: Man for our times?” Edited by John R. Stephenson and Timothy Winger, St. Louis: CPH, 1999 in Concordia Theological Quarterly, vol. 64, no. 1 (Jan. 2000).
  • Sasse Man for Our Times
• “Theological Observer: Why we need a Critical Edition of Walther,” Concordia Theological Quarterly, January 1999, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 53-56.
  • Critical Edition of Walther
• “Preface” to Logia Lutheran Missions issue, Logia, vol. VII, no. 3, Holy
  Trinity 1998.
  • Preface Missions
• “Lutheran Missions Must Lead to Lutheran Churches,” Logia, vol. VII, no. 3, Holy Trinity 1998, vol. VII.3, pp. 29-34.
  • Lutheran Missions
• “Herman Sasse and the EkiD – 1948: The Death of the Lutheran Church,” Logia, vol. IV, no. 4, Reformation 1995.
  • Sasse EKiD

Published Translations

• “Ministering to Prisoners on Death Row by Martin Chemnitz,” Logia XVI no. 2 pp. 53-4.
  • Ministering Prisoners
• “Letters to Westphalian Pastors, Circular Letter III, Herman Sasse,” translated by Matthew Harrison, Logia vol. X, no. 3, p. 5-8.
  • Letters Westphalian
• “The Sacrament of Baptism, Hermann Sasse,” translated by Matthew Harrison, Logia vol. IX, no. 2, p. 5-8.
  • Sacrament Baptism
• “Map of the Kingdom of God, Valentine Ernst Loescher,” Translated by Matthew Harrison, Logia, Reformation 1999, p. 28-30.
  • Map Piety
• “Quatenus or Quia? An Interchange on the Nature of Confessional Subscription, Pfarrer Hoeppl & Hermann Sasse,” Logia, Eastertide 1999, p. 5ff.
  • Quatenus or Quia
• “The Church and the Word of God by Hermann Sasse,” translated by Matthew Harrison, Logia, vol. II, no. 4, Reformation/October 1993, p. 9ff.
  • Church and Word of God
• “Funeral Sermon for Dr. Pieper,” Translated by M.C. Harrison, Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, Spring 1993, vol. 66, no. 1, p. 39f.
  • Funeral Sermon for Dr Pieper
• “The Church’s Confession by Hermann Sasse,” Translated by Matthew Harrison, Logia, vol. 1, no. 1, Reformation 1992, p. 1ff.
  • Church's Confession
• “The Chemnitz-Leyser-Gerhard Harmonia on John 6 and the Supper,” translated by M. Harrison in Reflections, Fall 1990-91 vol. VI, no. 1, pp. 25ff.
  • Harmonia on John 6

Magazine Articles

• “Mercy in Christ, ‘I thank God and Jesus Christ that someone has regarded us as human beings.’” In The Lutheran Witness, March 2008, p. 23; Reprinted as “Fifty Faces of Mercy,” available from LCMS World Relief and Human Care.
  • Mercy in Christ
  • 50 Faces
• “Though God slay me, I will yet hope in Him,” in Mercy Works, vol. 1,Nos. ¾,  (2006/07) pp. 5-7.
• “Christ in the Tsunami”, in The Lutheran Witness, March 2005.
  • Christ and the Tsunami
• “Saints in Need of Help,” in The Lutheran Witness, November 2003.
  • Saints in Need of Help
• “Thirteen ways to appreciate your pastor” in The Voice of Missouri, February 2003, p. 5.
• “The Church is a Mercy Place” in The Lutheran Witness, November 2002.
  • The Church Is A Mercy Place LW2002
• “The Church in the World,” in For the Life of the World, July 2001, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 12f.
  • The Church in the World
• “Sihler and the beginnings of Ft. Wayne Lutheranism,” in The Ft. Wayne Lutheran, October 1999, p. 17-18.
• “Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue” in Today’s Catholic, Serving the Diocese of Ft. Wayne-South Bend, October 26, 1997, vol. 71, no. 39, p. 10.
• “Why German language was essential to LCMS roots,” in The Ft. Wayne Lutheran, June 1997, p. 1ff. 
• “F.C.D. Wyneken – a voice in the wilderness” in The Ft. Wayne Lutheran, vol. 28, no. 1 (July 1997), p. 1,13.
• “What Lutherans can learn from Roman Catholicism” in The Ft. Wayne Lutheran, June 1997, pp. 3&15.
• “Why I am a Lutheran Witness to Jehovah and not a Jehovah’s Witness” in IDE Today, vol. 5 nos. 4-8 (1993).

Pamphlets

• Editor, Strength for the Day, a devotional/prayer booklet published monthly by CPH. 
  • http://www.cph.org/cphstore/pages/magazines/strength.asp
• Second Thoughts on Living Together, CPH, 2006.
• Theology for Mercy, LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis, 2004
  • Theology for Mercy
• All Become One Cake, Luther on the Lord’s Supper and Mercy, LCMS World Relief and Human Care, 2006.
  • All Become One Cake: A Sermon on the Lord's Supper
• The Church’s Role of Mercy in The Community, LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis, 2004.
  • The Church's Role of Mercy in the Community
• What Does It Mean To Be A Lutheran in Social Ministry? LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis 2004. This paper was originally delivered at a Lutheran Services in America Think Tank on Lutheran Identity and Social Ministry.
  • What Does It Mean To Be a Lutheran in Social Ministry?
• The Church is a Mercy Place, LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis 2004 (Reprint of the feature article from the November 2002 Lutheran Witness).
  • The Church is a Mercy Place!
  • The Church Is A Mercy Place LW2002
• Theological Reflections on Confessional Lutheran Involvement in Neighborhood Renewal: An Exercise in Two Kingdom Theology, LCMS World Relief and Human Care, 2004.
  • Theological Reflections on Confessional Lutheran Involvement in Neighborhood Renewal
• Co-author, Concordia Historical Institute Bulletin Series for the Synod’s 150th Anniversary. 
• Booker T. Washington and the Mother of Black Lutheranism, Ft.Wayne: Zion Lutheran Church 1999.
• Forward, Martin Luther, Ordinance of a Common Chest, LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis 2005.
  • Ordinance of A Common Chest
• Preface, Norman Nagel, The Twelve and the Seven in Acts 6 and the Needy, LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis, 2005.
  • The Twelve and the Seven in Acts 6
• Preface, Johann Gerhard, On The Duties of Ministers of The Church, translated by Richard Dinda, LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis 2005.
  • On the Duties of Ministers of the Church
• Translator, Mercy and the Lutheran Congregation: A Translation of the essay, “Intentional Care of the Poor and the Sick is Essential for the Well-being of a Christian Congregation” by Theodore Julius Brohm. LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis, 2006.
  • Mercy and the Lutheran Congregation
• Translator, Walther on Mercy: Selections on the Pastoral Office, the Congregation and the Church’s Corporate Diakonic Life, LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis, 2006.
  • Walther on Mercy: Selections on the Pastoral Office, the Congregation and the Church's Corporate Diakonic Life
• Preface, Fight, Work, Pray! Luther on the Lord’s Supper and Care for the Needy. LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis, CPH 2004.
• Preface, Loehe on Mercy: Six Chapters for Everyone, the Seventh, for the Servants of Mercy. Translated by Holger Sonntag, LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis 2006.
• Preface, Robert Preus, Clergy Mental Health and the Doctrine of Justification. LCMS World Relief, St. Louis, 2005.
  • Clergy Mental Health and the Doctrine of Justification
• Preface, Chemnitz on Almsgiving, translated by James Kellerman. LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis, 2004.
  • On Almsgiving
• Preface, Mercy in the Old Testament by Reed Lessing. LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis, 2007.
• Preface, Toward a Theology of Mercy: Winning Student Essays for 2007. LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis, 2007.
  • Toward A Theology of Mercy 2007
• Preface, Mercy in the Early Church: The Gospel of Love and Charity, by Adolf von Harnack. LCMS World Relief and Human Care, St. Louis, 2007.

Web Resources/Publications

• The Church’s Care for the Needy: A Bible Study Prepared by Pastor Matthew C. Harrison, Executive Director For LCMS World Relief and Human Care Sunday, Nov. 2004.
  • The Church’s Care for the Needy
• The Church’s “Finest Jewels” in CPH eNews for Schools, March 9, 2004.
  • The Church's Finest Jewels
  • http://www.cph.org/newsletter/schools/04/mar/teachers.asp.
  • http://www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=14511
• Does the LCMS Cooperate with Other Christians?
  • Does the LCMS Cooperate with Other Christians?
  • http://www.lcms.org/pages/internal.asp?NavID=14512
• Why Do Bad Things Happen?
• President Bush’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative: Good Idea?
  
  • President Bush's Faith-Based and Community Initiative: Good Idea? (Part 1)
  • President Bush's Faith Based and Community Initiative: Good Idea? (Part 2)
• Too Many “Veterans of the Cross” Live in Poverty
  • Too Many "Veterans of the Cross" Live in Poverty
• Clergy Sabbatical Can be Time of Renewal.
  • Clergy Sabbatical Can Be Time of Renewal (Part 1)
  • Clergy Sabbatical Can Be a Time of Renewal (Part 2)
• Let’s Hear it for the Small Congregation!
  • Let's Hear it for the Small Congregation!
• CFW Walther, Response to a Letter from a Lutheran Pastor in regard to the question of whether or not it is wise to use Methodist hymns in a Lutheran Sunday School, translated by Matthew Harrison.
  • Use Methodist hymns in a Lutheran Sunday School
  • http://user.txcyber.com/~wd5iqr/tcl/hymnq.htm