A few years ago, for a sermon, I came up with a list of hymns for the egotist. Here are some of the ones I thought of:
- How Great I Art
- Now I Lift My Name on High
- I Exalt Me
- I Need Me Every Hour
- I Love Me Lord
- Just As I Want
- Just a Little Talk With Myself
- O, To Be Like Me
- Praise Me! Praise Me!
- There is None Like Me
- Let Me Have My Way With Me
- Have Mine Own Way
This of course plays off of an old list of “honest songs” that has made it around the Internet:
- A Comfy Mattress Is Our God
- Above Average is Thy Faithfulness
- All Hail the Influence of Jesus’ Name
- Amazing Grace, How Interesting the Sound
- Be Thou My Hobby
- Blessed Hunch
- Blest Be the Tie That Doesn’t Cramp My Style
- Fill My Spoon, Lord
- Go Tell It on the Speed Bump
- God of Taste, and God of Stories
- He’s Quite a Bit to Me
- I Lay My Inappropriate Behavior on Jesus
- I Love to Talk About Telling the Story
- I Surrender Some
- I’m Fairly Certain That My Redeemer Lives
- It Is My Secret What God Can Do
- Joyful, Joyful, We Kinda Like Thee
- Just As I Pretend to Be
- Lift Every Voice and Intellectualize
- My Faith Looks Around for Thee
- My Hope is Built on Nothing Much
- O, God, Our Enabler in Ages Past
- Oh, for a Couple of Tongues to Sing
- Oh, How I Like Jesus
- Pillow of Ages, Fluffed for Me
- Praise God From Whom All Affirmations Flow
- Self-Esteem to the World! The Lord is Come
- Sit Up, Sit Up for Jesus
- Special, Special, Special
- Spirit of the Living God, Fall Somewhere Near Me
- Stick Nearby, It’s Getting Dark Outside
- Sweet Five Minutes of Prayer
- Take My Life and Let Me Be
- There Is Scattered Cloudiness in My Soul Today
- There Shall Be Sprinkles of Blessings
- We Are Milling Around in the Light of God
- We Give Thee but Still Think We Own
- What an Acquaintance We Have in Jesus
- When Peace, Like a Trickle
- When the Saints Go Sneaking In
- Where He Leads Me, I Will Consider Following
Want to add to the list?