Hi Jason!
I apologize for a relatively slow response, based in the GMT+1 zone :) I’m glad you’ve managed to figure it out in any case – as far as I understood the issue was in the fact that you mixed the image slider and the recent posts slider – to display the latter you’d need to choose the “Recent Post Slider” option from the “Content of the custom header” choice in the “Header” tab of the Theme Options panel, and also choose the recent posts slider from the little options box below the text editor on the page in question (in case you wanted to display the slider on one or more particular pages).
Should you have more questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact me!
Best,
Andrew | Satori