Under "Settings -> Reading" on the WP admin menu, you can set the home page to be a static page, and just have the "featured" content on that page.
If you don't want to have to copy the featured content to the static page every time you change it, you can use the "Improved Include Page" plugin (which was included in the shaper) to "include" the featured content in the static page, just changing the target of the shortcode with each update, instead of having to change all the content.
Details about the plugin can be found on the WP repository page for it:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/improved-include-page/