Featured Content Slider on home page

I'm having issues trying to get the featured content slider working on my home page. Here is the site: http://commercialvehiclefinancingnj.com and right now, everything is showing as vertical content on the home page. Per the instructions, the featured images have been set and the homepage theme is set for slider. However, the values of the featured content are blank / and one reads "false" As an aside, I would like to remove the date and comments on my posts, but can't figure that out.