Thanks Wes!
Yes, that was my question. I had planned to post that link this morning too. Sridhar’s solution works perfectly.
If using Epik v.1.4, changing the home.php template name to front-page.php and then adding that string of code to the functions.php works great.
If using the newer 1.5 version of Epik, one only needs to add the string of code to functions.php.